Gretel le Maître Ponders, with Bede & other guests
Goodpods#1 PODCAST OF THE WEEKSpiritualityGoodpods Top 100 History PodcastsListen Notes: Top 10 Global Rankings24,000 downloads Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time. She shares with you snippets from books about history, art and literature and regularly takes you on adventures to new locations, to explore churches, cathedrals and architecture. Gretel invites you to accompany her as she navigates the world a day at a time; the podcast is unscripted, it’s ad-free, and you’re invited to join in. It’s super unpolished and Gretel would be grateful for you to forgive h...
A Happy Monday with England winning the Third Test; Pepys wears velvet to watch the pre-Coronation procession; and Bede is our guest once again 🤓
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‘The Physiognomy of a Deserted Highway’; Inappropriate Pepys; and a Leaping Dog
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We ponder English cottages and The Rule of Benedict in hot Dorset garden
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Grace visits Sherton (Sherborne) in Hardy’s The Woodlanders, to follow her heart; accompanied by seagulls and Mr Katt
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We visit Sherborne’s 12th Century Old Castle 🏰
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The English Village and the Sherborne Conduit
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Kent becomes Christian once more; Choral Music soothes; and Pepys judges Charles II and his brother quite ordinary.
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Pepys’ thoughts on the King; Childhood Music; and the Debate continues
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Horace Walpole counters Thomas More in The Great Debate; and we Ponder Early Christianity in Cornwall
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Murder of Princes; Time to Stop and Stare; the Cornish Sea and Sore Hearts
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A Lost Episode; Thomas More speaks the apparent final concerned words of Edward IV; and we look forward to time by the Cornish Coast
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Covid Returns; Dunstan’s early life in Glastonbury; and poor Oliver Plunkett
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A return to a Dorset garden where Thomas More tells of Richard III’s pitiless cruelty; Samuel Pepys turns 28; and we ponder Saint Peter
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Happy 1st July dear friends.
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A hot June day, out and about in Bury St Edmunds
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We’re back in beautiful Bury St Edmund’s; Visit the resting place of Martha’s Vineyard’s Marthas; & ponder the origins and development of Peterborough 🌟
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The Dastardly Richard III, by Thomas More; and the Slaughter of the Fowls on a Sultry Saturday
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St Wulfsige and Dunstan; Cyril of Alexander; and Mrs Bat 🦇
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A Gold Ring Found; Cromwell’s Head in the eaves of Westminster Hall; and Bede tells of Cuthbert’s childhood as Gretel watches the sunrise 🌅
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Bede uses the phrase ‘hair-splitting’; dead Cromwell is hanged at Tyburn; and we ponder the Royal Bones in Sherborne Abbey
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Dunstan, Pepys and Bede
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Charles Dickens writes of New Year’s Eve; Saint Etheldreda and Ponderings on Grief
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The Boisterous Royal Ascot, Pepys and young Dunstan
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An Introduction to the Great Dunstan on a Warm Solstice Eve
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The bells ring and we ponder English Houses with Betjeman
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Welcome to this evening’s episode, all recorded au dehors, surrounded by swifts and other merry birds, on a balmy evening here in the lap of Dorset.
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Poor Henchard contemplates the River below; and we ponder London with a woeful extract from John Betjeman
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John Betjeman on Churchyards; we close the year 1660; and remember St Alban
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Blue Peter in 1971; the resetting of Canterbury Cathedral’s East End and a Wistful John Clare
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Pepys, St Vitus and Medieval Power Play in Canterbury
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We visit Thomas Hardy’s childhood church, St Michael’s Stinsford, and catch a little of the King’s Birthday Parade. 🇬🇧
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Pepys eats Neat’s Tongue; we celebrate Leo III and Anthony of Padua; and ponder Canterbury Cathedral’s Crypt
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Evolution of Canterbury Cathedral; Pepys wants to inspect his Mother’s Kidney Stone; and we ponder the Perpendicular
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Pepys Prospers; we ponder the Decorated Gothic Period and T Hardy lulls with his gentle Poetry
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Canterbury Part III
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Canterbury Part II
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Welcome to the second part of this Tuesday trilogy. 🌷🕯️🤗
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Canterbury Part I
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Hello and welcome back! I’m so sorry I’ve not been with you for the past few days. I will publish 3 episodes today to catch up and because I’m in wonderful Canterbury, where there is so much to share with you.
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Early English Churches; Early Cornish and Irish Christianity; and Archbishop Mellitus
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Norbert’s Day; Pepys has Diaper Napkins; and Pevsner describe Sherborne Old Castle
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A Wessex Poem; Poor Boniface is Murdered as an Old Man; and Pepys falls out with his Wife
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Hardy’s poignant poetry; and Pepys hears Organ music in Westminster for the first time.
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Saxon Crosses; Hardy’s education; and a Rainy Tuesday
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