Fall Asleep with Frank

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A relaxing daily sleep podcast to help you fall asleep. Every night, Frank tells calm, gentle sleep stories about everyday topics — history, geography, old places and quiet things — in a slow, unhurried voice made for bedtime listening. The perfect sleep aid, with new calming episodes every day.

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Yesterday · 12 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Iron Over the Tay: A Quiet History of the Tay Rail Bridge
Tonight, Frank takes you across the wide, grey waters of the Firth of Tay — to the story of a bridge that took twenty years to imagine, longer than expected to build, and only a single storm to bring down. The Tay Rail Bridge was one of the great...
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Sunday · 12 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Walking the Old Ridges of the Brecon Beacons
Tonight's sleep story wanders quietly through one of Wales's most beloved landscapes — the Brecon Beacons, known in Welsh as Bannau Brycheiniog. This is a bedtime podcast episode designed to ease you gently out of the day and into a deep, restful...
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Saturday · 16 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — A Slow Crossing of Scotland: The Forth and Clyde Canal
Tonight, Frank takes you on a slow, gentle journey along the Forth and Clyde Canal — one of Scotland's most quietly remarkable feats of engineering, and one of the most soothing routes imaginable for a bedtime sleep story. Running thirty-five miles...
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Friday · 17 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Beside Still Water: A Gentle History of Bodiam Castle
Tonight, Frank takes you to Bodiam Castle — one of England's most serene and storied fortresses, rising from its still, mirror-like moat in the gentle folds of East Sussex. This sleep story is a quiet, unhurried walk through over six hundred years of...
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Thursday · 16 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Drifting Through the Severn Estuary: Where the River Loses Its Edge
Tonight on this sleep podcast, Frank takes you slowly to the Severn Estuary — that wide, shifting, in-between place where the River Severn stops being a river and becomes something harder to name. Beginning in the mountains of mid-Wales, the Severn...
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Wednesday · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Stones Above the Wye: A Gentle History of Chepstow Castle
Tonight's sleep story takes you to a limestone ridge above the River Wye, where one of Britain's most ancient stone castles has stood for nearly a thousand years. This is a calm, unhurried journey through the history of Chepstow Castle — the oldest...
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September 15 · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Drifting Through the Pocklington Canal: A Slow History
Tonight, Frank takes you on a slow, restful journey along the Pocklington Canal — a nine-and-a-half-mile waterway threading through the wide skies and flat fields of the East Riding of Yorkshire. From the canal head near a small market town to the...
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September 14 · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — A Quiet Watch at the Edge of the Island: Bembridge Lifeboat Station
On the far eastern tip of the Isle of Wight, where the land quietly meets the channel, sits a lifeboat station with a story worth settling into. In this episode, Frank takes you gently through the long, quiet history of Bembridge Lifeboat Station —...
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September 13 · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — A Slow Walk Along Regent Street: London's Curving Grand Boulevard
Tonight, Frank takes you on a slow, unhurried walk along Regent Street — one of London's most elegant and thoughtfully designed thoroughfares. It's a street that curves, and that curve tells a story worth settling into as you drift toward sleep....
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September 12 · 13 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Out on The Smalls: A Slow History of a Lonely Lighthouse
Twenty miles off the Pembrokeshire coast, on a cluster of ancient wave-washed rocks in the Irish Sea, stands Smalls Lighthouse — the most remote lighthouse in the entire Trinity House network. Tonight, Frank tells its slow, gentle history to help you...
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September 11 · 10 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — The Stone Farmhouses That Kept the Night Outside: A Gentle History of Bastle Houses
Somewhere along the ancient border between England and Scotland, stone farmhouses stand with walls a metre thick, windows no wider than a hand's length, and ground floors built not for people but for animals brought in from the night. These are bastle...
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September 10 · 13 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Along the Spine of England: A Slow Walk of the Pennine Way
Tonight, Frank walks the spine of England. The Pennine Way is one of Britain's most celebrated long-distance trails — 268 miles of moorland, limestone plateau, river valley and open sky, running from the village of Edale in the Derbyshire Peak...
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September 9 · 16 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Crossing Scotland by Water: A Gentle History of the Forth and Clyde Canal
Tonight, Frank tells the story of the Forth and Clyde Canal — a thirty-five mile thread of still water drawn deliberately across the Scottish Lowlands, linking the Firth of Forth in the east to the Firth of Clyde in the west. This is the story of a...
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September 8 · 13 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Where the Ribble Meets the Sea: A Quiet Walk Through the Estuary
Tonight, Frank takes you to the north-west coast of England, where the River Ribble and the River Alt each find their own quiet way to the Irish Sea. Stretching between Crosby in Merseyside and Lytham St Annes in Lancashire, the Ribble and Alt...
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September 7 · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — A Gentle History of Margate Jetty: Iron, Sea and the First Pier
Step quietly to the edge of the Kent coast and let the grey-green water of the Thames Estuary ease you toward sleep. Tonight, Frank tells the slow, gentle history of Margate Jetty — a long, patient arm of wood and then iron that stretched out from the...
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September 6 · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Wandering Through Nottingham Castle: Stones, Cliffs and Quiet History
Tonight, Frank takes you to Nottingham Castle — one of England's most layered and storied places, rising on a great natural promontory of sandstone above the city streets. For nearly a thousand years, something has stood on top of Castle Rock. What...
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September 5 · 15 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Still Waters North: A Quiet Journey Along the Lancaster Canal
Tonight, Frank takes you on a calm and unhurried journey along the Lancaster Canal, a waterway with a quietly fascinating story — planned grand, built in pieces, and never quite completed in the way its engineers intended. The Lancaster Canal was...
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September 4 · 15 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Iron Over the Firth: A Gentle History of the Forth Rail Bridge
Tonight, Frank takes you on a slow, unhurried journey to the shores of the Firth of Forth, where three vast cantilever arms of dark red steel have stood against the Scottish sky since 1890. This episode of your favourite sleep podcast traces the...
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September 3 · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Drifting Through the Rideau: A Gentle History of Canada's Oldest Canal
Tonight on this sleep podcast, Frank takes you on a slow, gentle drift along the Rideau Canal — a two-hundred-and-two-kilometre waterway threading through the forests, lakes, and small towns of Ontario, Canada. It's a perfect bedtime story: calm,...
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September 2 · 15 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Slow Water Through the Highlands: The Caledonian Canal
Tonight's sleep story takes you along one of Scotland's most quietly remarkable waterways. The Caledonian Canal stretches sixty miles across the heart of the Highlands, threading through four great lochs — Loch Ness, Loch Lochy, Loch Oich, and Loch...
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