The Sleeping World: Seaside Grazing with a Sheep

By: Mumble Media, Audible Sleep

Narrated by: Cynthia Kimola

Wind down by escaping into nature. Part soundscape and part bedtime story, The Sleeping World is an intimate journey through ecologies around the world.

North Ronaldsay sheep have been roaming the shores of a Scottish isle for centuries. They outnumber people there by more than twenty to one. While most sheep graze in fields, the North Ronaldsay are a breed apart: they forage seaweed on the rocky beach. In this episode, we follow a lamb as she crosses the island’s ancient stone dyke and sees the ocean for the first time.

This is the world in its natural state, defined by seasons, routines, and cycles. By the time this lamb is ready to let the waves lull her to sleep, you’ll be drifting off too.

Produced by Audible and Mumble Media
Written by Cara Ehlenfeldt
Narrated by Cynthia Kimola
Executive Producers for Mumble Media: Cara Ehlenfeldt and Jake Young
Executive Producer for Audible: Anna Stitt
Sound Design and Mix: Mumble Media
Additional Recordings: Nicholas Jourjine
The Mumble Media team is Jaymeson Catsouphes, Cara Ehlenfeldt, Liz Mak, Lee Mengistu, David Tatasciore, Renée Vargas, Jake Young, and Sharif Youssef
North Ronaldsay Sheep Consultant: Michael Scott
Fact-Checker: Andrea López-Cruzado
Head of Creative Development: Kate Navin
Head of Audible Originals, North America: Marshall Lewy
Chief Content Officer: Rachel Ghiazza

©2025 Audible Originals, LLC (P)2026 Audible Originals, LLC.

Put me to sleep

The narrator has a pleasant voice, the content is interesting and it put me to sleep. Just what I needed.

Voice and sound effects.

This series is amazing. I suffer from insomnia and for some crazy reason this series is the only thing that helps wind down my mind and find rest. I must have listened to each episode of the first season 20 times and I'm thrilled they are releasing new episodes. I just can't understand why the first season is now unavailable. Audible has a potential hit on their hands. Why restrict access and prevent new people from discovering this wonderful series?

A Magical Sleepcast!

This wonderful new Sleeping World podcast worked it's magic on me right away! The soothing sounds of the ocean waves, the gentle voice of the storyteller, the images of sheep grazing, all work together to lull me off to sleep almost immediately. I've begun listening to this podcast every night as my bedtime story. I rarely make it halfway through before I drift off to dreamland...

Soothing

The narrator’s voice was perfect for this. The content was interesting enough to grab on to if you wake up and need an immediate distraction but easy enough to let go of as you fall back asleep.

narrator and story are great

I love the narrator and the story. but the audible intro and outro completely ruin it for me. take those out and it's perfect. but with them in it is unusable to me.