Sleep podcasts that are still running
Every show below was checked against its own RSS feed on 29 July 2026, not copied from another list. The date next to each one is its most recent episode as of that check.
This matters more than it should. The roundups that rank for this search are often years old, and several still recommend shows that stopped publishing long ago — including one that has been silent since early 2024. Those are listed at the bottom rather than hidden.
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Still publishing
- Get Sleepy latest episode 29 July 2026
Slumber Studios · Guided stories with a wind-down segment before the story starts. · built into the player
- Sleepy latest episode 29 July 2026
Otis Gray · Classic literature read aloud, slowly.
- Sleep Cove latest episode 29 July 2026
Christopher Fitton · Hypnosis and guided meditation from a practising hypnotherapist.
- Sleep Meditation for Women latest episode 29 July 2026
Women's Meditation Network · Guided meditations written for women. The largest catalogue on this list by some distance.
- Send Me To Sleep latest episode 29 July 2026
Long, deliberately uneventful readings. Closest in spirit to Sleep With Me. · built into the player
- Relaxing White Noise latest episode 29 July 2026
Relaxing White Noise, LLC · Pure noise and machine hum, no voice. The reference show for anyone who wants no words at all.
- Calming Anxiety latest episode 29 July 2026
Martin Hewlett · Short guided meditations aimed at a racing mind rather than at sleep directly.
- Drift Off latest episode 29 July 2026
Joanne D'Amico · Original bedtime stories for adults. Sits alongside Nothing Much Happens.
- Deep Energy latest episode 28 July 2026
Jim Butler · Ambient music and soundscapes, published almost daily.
- Tracks to Relax latest episode 28 July 2026
Guided sleep meditations. Published via Patreon rather than an own domain.
- Sleep With Me latest episode 28 July 2026
Drew Ackerman · The original bore-you-to-sleep show. Rambling, deliberately hard to follow. · built into the player
- Nothing Much Happens latest episode 27 July 2026
Kathryn Nicolai · Gentle stories where nothing goes wrong. Each is told twice, slower the second time. · built into the player
- The Sleepy Bookshelf latest episode 27 July 2026
Slumber Studios · Public-domain novels, a chapter at a time.
- Boring Books for Bedtime latest episode 27 July 2026
Sharon Handy · Deliberately dull public-domain texts — old manuals, obscure treatises. · built into the player
- Deep Sleep Sounds latest episode 25 July 2026
Slumber Studios · Rain, fans, engine hum. No voice at all.
Worth knowing: Slumber Studios publishes more than one of the shows above. They are good shows, but this is one catalogue rather than several independent picks.
Stopped publishing
Still listenable, and the back catalogues are worth a night — but no longer active, whatever other lists say.
- BBC Slow Radio last episode 25 February 2024
BBC Radio 3 · 138 episodes, all still listenable. Widely recommended by roundups that have not checked since.
- Snoozecast last episode 3 December 2025
Snoozecast · The last episode announced a sabbatical. The back catalogue is large and still worth a night.
- Goodnight, World! last episode 11 March 2024
Headspace Studios · 26 sleep stories from the Headspace team, all still listenable. Stopped publishing in 2024; the rest of Headspace's sleep library is app-only.
Calm and Headspace are often listed alongside these. Their sleep libraries are app-only, behind a subscription and with no public feed, so no podcast player can reach them — including this one. Headspace does publish real feeds, but the sleep ones stopped years ago; the one above is the pick of them.
Somewhere to play them
Four of the shows above are already built into our player — paste any other feed and it shuffles them until a sleep timer fades to silence. No account, nothing stored about you, runs in the browser.
open the sleep player →If you'd rather have a proper app with sync and a library, use Pocket Casts — it is free, it handles private subscriber feeds, and its web player needs no account. One caveat for this particular use: its shuffle is a paid feature and only shuffles a queue you build by hand, so shuffling everything you subscribe to isn't something it does.