About Prince Freddie
Prince Freddie is a small Pembroke Welsh Corgi who wears a soft flat crown and lives in a quiet village on the south-facing Spanish coast. Every Sunday he narrates a free bedtime story for adults who can't switch off at the end of the day. The stories are inspired by a real Pembroke Welsh Corgi called Prince Freddie who spent a few months living on the beach in Spain.
Who Freddie is
Freddie is unhurried, observant, slightly amused, and never in a rush about anything. He does not give advice. He does not lecture. He does not personify Sleep as a knowing actor or call the listener "you" and tell them what they need. He notices small things: the sound of a particular kind of wave on a particular kind of stone, the way the lighthouse beam rests on the sea for a moment after a long week. He offers them to the listener as a soft place to follow until sleep takes over.
Where he lives
The setting is a small unnamed village on the south-facing Spanish coast, modelled on the Costa del Sol. The sun rises east over the sea and sets west behind the hills. There is a red-capped lighthouse on the rocks at the far end of the bay, a cottage with warm windows where Freddie sleeps, a fisherman who works the morning tide, an orange tree with white blossoms in the village square, and a small bell that rings whenever the wind passes through it. Underfoot it is warm stone and cool sand, and the evening air usually carries one scent: lavender by the path, or orange blossom drifting from the square. The world is on purpose small. It is meant to become familiar, the way a place you return to every night becomes familiar.
What the stories are for
They are for adults who are good at everything except stopping. The pacing is slow on purpose. The arcs are small on purpose. The stories do not need to be followed to the end; the point is to drift away part-way through. Each story is published free every Sunday as written text and a short audio narration of around ten minutes.
The Settle, the long way down
The long, slow versions live in The Settle, a paid sleepcast feed of twenty to thirty minutes a night, built to be slept through rather than listened to. Freddie settles first, ears to tail, and you settle with him. Then the story. Then a single soft bowl sound. Then the same story again, slower and lower, in gentler words, because a story with no surprises left is one your mind can finally put down. The sea holds steady underneath from the first minute to the last, nothing interrupts, nothing gets louder, and every night ends with two minutes of waves and a five minute fade you are not meant to hear.
It is small on purpose: one village, one voice, one sea, one scent a night. And every few nights there is a little magic, the kind you are already halfway into, like the moon coming down to soak in a tide pool before going back on her shift. You are falling asleep. The stories are allowed to know that. The weekly story stays free, always; The Settle only adds.
How it's different from Calm and Headspace
Three things. The weekly stories are free. Everything is delivered by email and podcast feed, not locked behind an app. And it is character-led: the same small dog in the same small village, every week, instead of rotating celebrity readers in unrelated settings. (More detail at alternatives to Calm.)
Where the stories came from
Prince Freddie was a real Pembroke Welsh Corgi who spent a few months living on the beach in a small village on the Spanish coast. The stories are inspired by that time: the lighthouse at the far end of the bay, the morning fishermen, the warm cottage at dusk, the way the moon moves slowly over the sea. The character in the stories shares his name; the world is built quietly around his real wanderings.
A new story arrives every Sunday, all set in the same village, each one adding a little more to a world that is meant to be learned by heart. Produced and published independently from a small studio. Contact: studio@princefreddie.com.
Where to listen
- princefreddie.com: Story 1 plays in one tap on the landing page; subscribe to get a new one every Sunday.
- stories.princefreddie.com : every story in full, with audio embedded at the top.
- YouTube : narrated video versions of every story.
- The Settle : the paid feed of long, slow sleepcasts, told twice, in your own podcast app.
Created by Karolis Jasinskas in a small village on the Spanish coast.
Try one tonight
The easiest way to meet Freddie is to press play and listen for a minute. There is no signup wall.
→ Listen to Story 1 on the home page
Or get a new sleep story each week, free, by email on Substack.