Why Do We Need Stories? | The Story of Stories

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

Why do we need stories? Settle into The Story of Stories, a thoughtful sleep story about the tales we tell, the shapes they take, and the way they carry us a little beyond ourselves. Late at night, a young woman begins a tale by lamplight. Inside her story, another storyteller begins another tale. Shahrazad keeps the king listening, one night after another, while stories travel far beyond the palace. Tonight we follow them from an ancient painted cave in Sulawesi to fireside conversations in the Kalahari, from Aristotle's thoughts on plot to Murasaki Shikibu's...