Or use a pillow speaker. Roberts do one about £10. Maplin about £3. (I have a couple of spares. PM if interested.) Use speech radio. (My radio fails to switch off as instructed, so I can wake up to peculiar World service reports which have ambled into my dreams. Or schools broadcasts of the Music and Movement variety.)
The other night I thought I had made some camomile teas, but it turned out it was green tea - but I still went to sleep.