About Somnus Rest

Somnus Rest makes gentle stories for sleep. Each one is told slowly, with soft music resting between the stories, so there is nothing to wake you and nowhere you need to be.

Most of our stories are retold from old books that are now in the public domain: fairy tales, fables and folk stories from Japan, China, Korea, India, the Celtic lands, the North and beyond, and some quiet nature writing. Others are new stories of small, everyday kindness, written for Somnus. Every story page says which it is, and names the book it was retold from.

The stories are written with the help of AI tools, then shaped, checked and re-checked by our small team before anything reaches you. The narration is a synthetic voice with a soft Scottish accent, chosen and checked by ear.

Each programme is about three hours of stories on YouTube, with each story a little slower and simpler than the one before. The podcast brings the same stories three at a time.

If you drift away in the middle of a story, the story has done its work.

You can write to us at [email protected].