A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. On a mild winter afternoon in 1919, a great tank of molasses gives way in Boston’s North End. The neighbourhood comes together for the long work of putting things right, and the story ends in a quiet park on the waterfront.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. A young doctor from the Ontario farm country spends a long summer and a snowy winter in a small laboratory in Toronto. Early in 1922, a boy in a hospital bed is given a new medicine called insulin, and he begins to get better.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the early summer of 1813, a woman named Laura Secord sets out on foot through the Niagara country of Upper Canada, on a long walk through the woods to carry a warning.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the late summer of 1911, the most famous painting in Paris disappears from its wall in the Louvre, and a long, quiet search begins.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. Two brothers from a bicycle shop in Ohio travel to a long, windy stretch of sand dunes on the North Carolina coast, and spend season after season learning how to fly.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the summer of 1518, a woman in Strasbourg begins to dance in the street, and soon others join her. The city looks after them as best it can, until a quiet shrine in the hills and the end of summer bring the dancing to a close.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In 1900, a crew of sponge divers sheltered from a storm beside a small Greek island and found an ancient shipwreck below them. Among the finds taken to a museum in Athens was a small bronze gear, and the long, patient work to understand the machine it came from.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the hot summer of 1858 the River Thames runs low and foul through London. An engineer named Joseph Bazalgette sets out to build a great network of brick tunnels beneath the city, and a wide stone embankment with gardens beside the river.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.