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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Today · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Still Water, Slow History: The Pocklington Canal
Tonight, settle in as Frank takes you along the Pocklington Canal — a still, nine-and-a-half-mile stretch of water moving through nine locks in the East Riding of Yorkshire, connecting a small market town to the River Derwent. This canal doesn't...
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Yesterday · 15 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Drifting Across Scotland: The Forth and Clyde Canal
Tonight, Frank takes you on a quiet journey along the Forth and Clyde Canal — a thirty-five-mile waterway cut by hand across the narrowest point of Scotland, linking the Firth of Forth in the east to the Firth of Clyde in the west. This is one of...
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Friday · 13 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Turning Slowly: A Gentle History of the Falkirk Wheel
In tonight's sleep story, Frank takes you gently into the heart of central Scotland, to a place called Tamfourhill, where a vast and patient structure turns boats through the air — twenty-four metres up or down — in a single slow, smooth arc. The...
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Friday · 16 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Iron and Water Above the Dee: The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
Tonight, Frank takes you somewhere quietly extraordinary: a canal that moves through the sky above the River Dee in northeast Wales. The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct — completed in 1805 — is the longest aqueduct in Great Britain and the highest canal...
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Thursday · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Drifting Through the Quiet Miles of Pocklington Canal
Tonight, settle in as Frank takes you along the Pocklington Canal — a gentle ribbon of water threading through the quiet fields of the East Riding of Yorkshire. This is not a famous canal. It was never one of the great engineering spectacles of the...
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Wednesday · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Rising from the Mist: A Gentle History of Glastonbury Tor
Tonight, Frank takes you on a slow, unhurried journey to Glastonbury Tor — the ancient, mist-wrapped hill rising alone from the flat Somerset Levels in the west of England. Standing five hundred and eighteen feet above sea level, the Tor has...
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Wednesday · 16 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Stone Over the Taff: A Gentle History of Pontypridd Bridge
In tonight's bedtime story, Frank takes you to a quiet bend in the River Taff in south Wales, where a young stonemason named William Edwards spent years — and four attempts — building one of the most beautiful bridges in all of Wales. The Old Bridge...
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Tuesday · 16 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — A Slow Crossing: The Forth and Clyde Canal
Tonight, Frank guides you along the Forth and Clyde Canal — a thirty-five-mile ribbon of still water that stitches the Scottish Lowlands together, connecting the Firth of Forth in the east to the Firth of Clyde in the west. Opened in 1790 after...
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Monday · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Wandering Through the Ruins of Tavistock Abbey
Tonight, Frank takes you on a slow and peaceful walk through the history of Tavistock Abbey — one of the great Benedictine monasteries of medieval England, tucked into a river valley in Devon's green southwest. Founded in the tenth century by...
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August 23 · 15 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Tides Through the Narrow Water: A Slow History of Menai Strait
Tonight, settle in as Frank takes you on a slow, quiet journey through one of Wales's most ancient waterways — the Menai Strait. This is a sleep story for anyone who finds peace in deep history, still water, and the patient movement of tides. The...
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August 22 · 15 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Drifting Along Regent's Canal: A Slow History of London's Hidden Waterway
Tonight, let the calm waters of Regent's Canal guide you toward sleep. In this slow, unhurried sleep story, Frank traces the quiet history of one of London's most overlooked waterways — eight and a half miles of still water running through the...
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August 21 · 13 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Stones Over the Thames: A Gentle History of Henley Bridge
Tonight on Fall Asleep with Frank, we cross the River Thames at one of England's most quietly remarkable spots: Henley Bridge. Five elliptical stone arches span the water between Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire and the small village of Remenham in...
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August 20 · 15 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Arches Over the Glen: A Gentle History of Glenfinnan Viaduct
Tonight, Frank takes you to a green Highland glen in the north-west of Scotland, where twenty-one pale concrete arches curve gently over the River Finnan — and where, on still mornings, the structure looks as though the land itself grew it. The...
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August 19 · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Stones and Still Water: A Gentle History of Kenilworth Castle
Tonight, Frank takes you to Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire — one of the finest surviving medieval palace complexes in England, and one of the most quietly beautiful ruins in the English Midlands. Built from warm New Red Sandstone that seems almost...
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August 18 · 13 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Walking the Backbone of England: A Slow Journey Along the Pennine Way
Tonight on this relaxing sleep podcast, Frank walks you gently along the Pennine Way — one of England's most beloved and demanding long-distance trails. Stretching 268 miles from the village of Edale in the Derbyshire Peak District to the quiet border...
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August 17 · 10 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Wandering Through the World of Caisson Lighthouses
Tonight, Frank guides you slowly through the quiet world of caisson lighthouses — those solitary towers that rise from open water, standing on hollow foundations sunk into the seabed, surrounded by sea on every side. The caisson lighthouse has a...
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August 16 · 13 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — The Light Beneath the Mist: A Gentle History of Beachy Head Lighthouse
Tonight on this relaxing sleep podcast, Frank tells the slow, gentle story of Beachy Head Lighthouse — a red-and-white granite tower that has stood in the sea off the East Sussex coast since 1902, its light reaching twenty-six nautical miles across...
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August 15 · 16 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — Still Water, Moving History: A Gentle Walk Along the Bridgewater Canal
Tonight, Frank takes you along the Bridgewater Canal — England's first true canal, and one of the most quietly transformative waterways ever built. Threading through the landscapes of Lancashire and Cheshire, between Worsley, Manchester, and Runcorn,...
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August 14 · 14 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — A Slow Journey Along the Forth and Clyde Canal
Tonight, Frank takes you on a slow and calming journey along the Forth and Clyde Canal — one of Scotland's most remarkable feats of engineering, and one of its most quietly beautiful places. The Forth and Clyde Canal stretches thirty-five miles...
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August 13 · 13 min
Fall Asleep with Frank — A Still and Ancient Water: The Quiet History of Loch Ness
Loch Ness sits in the Scottish Highlands, long and dark and very still — and tonight, Frank takes you there. This gentle sleep story explores one of Britain's most quietly extraordinary places, from the ancient geological fault that carved the Great...
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