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<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> History, Captivity, Light Peril, Mild Violence, Mention of Loss, Travel.</p>



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Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

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<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> History, Captivity, Light Peril, Mild Violence, Mention of Loss, Travel.</p>



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Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

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<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> History, Captivity, Light Peril, Mild Violence, Mention of Loss, Travel.</p>



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Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Jane Austen was barely twenty-one when she first wrote this. Tonight, we begin at Longbourn, where Mrs. Bennet has just heard the news she has been waiting for: Netherfield Park has a new tenant. He is unmarried. He is rich. She has five daughters.</p>



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Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

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<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

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        <![CDATA[<p>Picture flat, gray Kansas — the baked earth, the bleached grass, the silence just before the wind begins to scream. Tonight, Dorothy's house rises into the cyclone and sets down, very gently, in a country of impossible colour — where the Munchkins are waiting, and something silver is poking out from under a fallen beam.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Weather, Animals, Light Peril, Mention of Death (handled gently).</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Weather, Animals, Light Peril, Mention of Death (handled gently).</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>We begin tonight in a rambling country house somewhere in England — a rainy morning, too many rooms to count, and four children sent away from London for the duration of the war. When the youngest, Lucy, steps into a wardrobe full of fur coats and keeps walking, the floor turns to snow.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Wartime setting, Travel, Snow, Animals.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>We begin tonight in a rambling country house somewhere in England — a rainy morning, too many rooms to count, and four children sent away from London for the duration of the war. When the youngest, Lucy, steps into a wardrobe full of fur coats and keeps walking, the floor turns to snow.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Wartime setting, Travel, Snow, Animals.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Wartime setting, Travel, Snow, Animals.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, we step into the Shire for the first time — where old Bilbo Baggins has turned eleventy-one and thrown himself a party that the whole neighbourhood will talk about for years. He has a gold ring he's carried for sixty years tucked in his pocket. Tonight, he means to leave it behind.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Food and Drink, Fireworks, Pipe-smoke, Mention of Ageing, Light Comedy.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Food and Drink, Fireworks, Pipe-smoke, Mention of Ageing, Light Comedy.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Food and Drink, Fireworks, Pipe-smoke, Mention of Ageing, Light Comedy.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, we open a book told and retold for two hundred years. Before the first witch steps out of the forest, we meet the two brothers who gathered these stories — sons of a Hessian lawyer in a Germany that didn't yet exist — and hear the voice that will carry them to you: limpid, clean, as clear as water.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> History, Mention of Loss, Political Conflict.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, we open a book told and retold for two hundred years. Before the first witch steps out of the forest, we meet the two brothers who gathered these stories — sons of a Hessian lawyer in a Germany that didn't yet exist — and hear the voice that will carry them to you: limpid, clean, as clear as water.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> History, Mention of Loss, Political Conflict.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, we open a book told and retold for two hundred years. Before the first witch steps out of the forest, we meet the two brothers who gathered these stories — sons of a Hessian lawyer in a Germany that didn't yet exist — and hear the voice that will carry them to you: limpid, clean, as clear as water.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> History, Mention of Loss, Political Conflict.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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      <title>Dracular [Chapter 1] - Ep #76</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, Jonathan Harker boards a coach deep in the Carpathian Mountains and rides east toward a castle he cannot yet imagine. The peasants at roadside inns press crucifixes into his hands and beg him not to go. Ahead, through the mountain dark, blue flames flicker above the road.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Travel, Animals, Light Peril, Weather, History, Food.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, Jonathan Harker boards a coach deep in the Carpathian Mountains and rides east toward a castle he cannot yet imagine. The peasants at roadside inns press crucifixes into his hands and beg him not to go. Ahead, through the mountain dark, blue flames flicker above the road.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Travel, Animals, Light Peril, Weather, History, Food.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 20:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, Jonathan Harker boards a coach deep in the Carpathian Mountains and rides east toward a castle he cannot yet imagine. The peasants at roadside inns press crucifixes into his hands and beg him not to go. Ahead, through the mountain dark, blue flames flicker above the road.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Travel, Animals, Light Peril, Weather, History, Food.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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      <title>The Neverending Story - [Prologue] Ep#71</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, we begin <em>The Neverending Story</em> on a cold, rainy November morning. A breathless boy named Bastian Balthazar Bux pushes open the door of a dusty bookshop and can't quite make himself leave — until his hand reaches for a copper-bound book on an old man's armchair, and something inside him clicks shut.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Weather, Mention of Bereavement, Bullying.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, we begin <em>The Neverending Story</em> on a cold, rainy November morning. A breathless boy named Bastian Balthazar Bux pushes open the door of a dusty bookshop and can't quite make himself leave — until his hand reaches for a copper-bound book on an old man's armchair, and something inside him clicks shut.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Weather, Mention of Bereavement, Bullying.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 20:00:03 +0100</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, we begin <em>The Neverending Story</em> on a cold, rainy November morning. A breathless boy named Bastian Balthazar Bux pushes open the door of a dusty bookshop and can't quite make himself leave — until his hand reaches for a copper-bound book on an old man's armchair, and something inside him clicks shut.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Weather, Mention of Bereavement, Bullying.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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      <title>The Hobbit [Part 1] - Ep #5</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit — and tonight, we settle into it. We find Bilbo Baggins on a fine morning, pipe smoke curling into the blue, when a wizard with a very tall hat appears at the gate with an invitation Bilbo most emphatically does not want.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Pipe Tobacco, Food, Unexpected Guests, Songs, Light Adventure.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit — and tonight, we settle into it. We find Bilbo Baggins on a fine morning, pipe smoke curling into the blue, when a wizard with a very tall hat appears at the gate with an invitation Bilbo most emphatically does not want.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Pipe Tobacco, Food, Unexpected Guests, Songs, Light Adventure.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit — and tonight, we settle into it. We find Bilbo Baggins on a fine morning, pipe smoke curling into the blue, when a wizard with a very tall hat appears at the gate with an invitation Bilbo most emphatically does not want.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Pipe Tobacco, Food, Unexpected Guests, Songs, Light Adventure.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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      <title>The Age of Innocence [Part 1] Ep #3</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, we step inside the Academy of Music on a winter evening in Old New York — gas-lit, gilded, and governed by rules as precise as a minuet. Into the Mingott family box steps a woman who has fled a scandalous marriage in Europe, and the opera night becomes something nobody quite expected.</p>

<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Formal Society, Opera, Marital Difficulty, Romance, Beverages, Period Customs.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Formal Society, Opera, Marital Difficulty, Romance, Beverages, Period Customs.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Includes mentions of:</em> Formal Society, Opera, Marital Difficulty, Romance, Beverages, Period Customs.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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      <title>The Picture of Dorian Gray [Part 1] - Ep #1</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, we step into a London studio heavy with roses and afternoon light, where a painter is finishing a portrait of the most beautiful man he has ever seen. Into the room walks Lord Henry Wotton, full of brilliant, dangerous ideas — and Dorian Gray is about to hear them for the first time.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tonight, we step into a London studio heavy with roses and afternoon light, where a painter is finishing a portrait of the most beautiful man he has ever seen. Into the room walks Lord Henry Wotton, full of brilliant, dangerous ideas — and Dorian Gray is about to hear them for the first time.</p>



<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>About Sleepbound Premium</strong><br>
Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed.</p>

<p>Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams.</p>

<p>— Ian</p>]]>
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