How do you fall asleep?

Chapter 1

Dr Irshaad Ebrahim on sleep and creativity

Dr Irshaad Ebrahim is a sleep doctor at the London Sleep Centre. He talks to Robert Bound about whether sleep affects creativity or if being in a possession of a creative mind affects your sleep.

Chapter 2

Report: Bedtime stories at the Ace Hotel

In LA and London, the Ace Hotel is running a new service on their in-house radio where authors narrate bedtime stories to adults. Reporter Lily Ames heads down to see if the soothing voices can send her off to the land of nod.

Chapter 3

The Sleep Retreat

Jonathan Grant recounts how he set up his sleep retreat in rural England and what sort of people tend to walk through the doors.

Chapter 4

Monologue: Monocle's New York bureau chief, Ed Stocker

Ed Stocker muses on his own relationship with sleep from childhood to adulthood and on either side of the Atlantic.