I have a new hobby

Listen to one of the stories from This American Life while you drift off to sleep, and you'll go to sleep happy.

The best way to start is to click on the staff's favourites.

So far I've listened to Babysitting and Somewhere in the Arabian Sea and I'm hooked. The programmes are filled with wonderful stories from average, everyday people.

I got to exploring the site thanks to the David Sedaris clip I wrote about earlier, and even if you don't know or care who David Sedaris is, you should go to the site anyway and listen to any of the other stories. It's like reading without having to, you know, read. Really interesting stories. I can't emphasise this enough.