A quiet bedtime story to calm your nervous system, spent watching small, unhurried work done well. On a flat rock at the eastern end of the beach, a small dark crab is arranging her found colours in a curved line: rose-pink sea glass, an amber stone, a curl of pale kelp. It is not for anything. It is just arranged. Prince Freddie sits down on the sand and watches the rose-pink catch the last light and go briefly extraordinary.

Prince Freddie is a small dog in a flat gold crown who lives in a sleepy village on the Spanish coast, where the days are warm, the sea is always close, and nothing is ever in a hurry. These are calm sleep stories, written to quiet an anxious mind and soften the end of the day. You are not meant to reach the end.

No ads, ever. How to listen: lie down, dim the light, and let the words do the walking. If you drift ...