Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests
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. We’ve reached 71,000 downloads. Thank you!! 🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her as she navigates the world a day at a time; the podcast is unscripted, it’s ad-free.Gretel loves the world and history, architecture, literature and people. And so is determined to walk this path with light footsteps and with humour and warmth. Let’...
The Tuesday Bells 🔔; Shenanigans in Barchester; and blessed John Clare
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Hello and welcome! I share with you a photograph from my walk today, where we passed Sherborne New Castle, built by the wonderful Walter Raleigh.
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Gretel gives impromptu Sermon; Childe Okeford Village; and more Pickwick
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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The Ancient Tale of Robin Hood; St Paul’s Church, Jarrow; The Crimean War; and Norman Churches
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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The Brontës, Samuel Pepys and Fuller’s Curious Church History
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Obadiah Slope’s Slippery Scheme; Windy Wittering; and Sir Robert Peel’s Undoing
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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A Book at Bedtime: a collection of readings including The Pickwick Papers and Barchester Towers
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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A Walk in Cerne Abbas; Fuller’s Church History of Britain, of 1648; Tension mounts in Barchester Towers; and poems by Thomas Hardy
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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How to get rid of a horse, in The Pickwick Papers; and Charlotte Brontë’s Irish and Cornish ancestry.
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Lucy, the Lundy Island Native, talks to Gretel
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This is a very special episode because it’s an interview - or more like a chat - with a one-in-a-million sort of person, whose family have lived on Lundy Island for generations. This is Lucy, a lady we met by chance and whose infectious joy and delight in life and the Island of Lundy blew me away.
I’m sorry to say that because we chatted in the Island pub it’s a little noisy. I’ve had a go at improving the sound - I hope you can hear all that she has to s...
A Nightingale & Orange Tree delight Pepys 🍊; a Saxon Love Letter; Beeny Cliff; and Trollope
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This episode also includes a delightful reminiscence of Lundy Island by Hedley Thorne, more of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and a message from a new listener from Sydney, Australia.
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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 t...
Purely Pickwick
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Lundy Island
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I’m so sorry this is late, that the sound is dodgy and that I don’t say goodbye at the end. It was so windy and I couldn’t get a signal on the island.
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads...
The Wholeness of Holiness; Wordsworth; The Jamaica Act; and a Chatty Mr Katt 🐈⬛
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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St James’s Palace; Barchester Towers; Scottish Kings and The Pickwick Papers
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Fluffy Dunnock passes by; Mr Winkle avoids a Duel and Mr Arabin is in love;
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Thank you so very much for joining me. Thank you Brendan for the wonderful bits and bobs: I will reply soon.
If Dickens is new to you, please persevere with TPP. It really is wonderful, but, like a few books, it takes a few chapters to get stuck in.
How are you? Are you away on holiday? Are you going through a happy time, or a difficult time? Tomorrow we will have a literary episode which will continue E Gaskell’s Life of...
The Wanderer; Haworth in the 1820s; Sam Pepys; and a Cornish Stream
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Flying Geese & The Pickwick Papers, by Dickens, from beautiful Cornwall
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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And We’re Off: London and Pickwick 🥳
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Strictly Books: Haworth ‘Arvills; Young Christianity in Britain; Pepys; & Trollope
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Drama in Barchester Towers; and we revisit St Nicholas Church in Bratton St Maur
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Pepys, Poetry, Chronicle and Courage
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Villette, by Charlotte Brontë, says its Adieu
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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The Life of Bede; Tuesday Bells; Dear Mr Pepys; and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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We also hear from wise and ever curious Alexander Pope, as he ponders a good life.
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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A Flying visit to Bury St Edmunds; and Chapter XL of Villette, Charlotte Brontë.
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Wide mouthed-Hate-dents, Yorkshire and Barchester Folk, Pepys, E Thomas and A Marvell
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A very happy vendredi to you. A good week? Or no? A pleasant weekend in prospect? Fun and happy plans? Or not? Too much lone time in prospect, and an uneasy feeling of isolation and dependence on the television? Whatever your circumstances, I wish you well. Don’t keep anything to yourself that might be unhealthy. Write it down, share with a friend, or join an online support group. You are not alone and people care.
Night night for now. And don’t catch your jumper sleeve on any ‘wide-mouthed hate...
‘To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage’ - Villette
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Agony from Mrs Gaskell; Astonishment for Lucy Snow; and Joy from William Shakespeare
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Books on Monday: Lord Durham in Canada; Pepys in Grief; Lord Byron in Prayer; and Mellitus in Kent
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Villette: Chapter XXXIX; and a Red Kite sings
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Nicola Cornick, brilliant historical novelist, meets Gretel at Sutton Courtenay Abbey
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Today I spent the afternoon at Sutton Courtenay Abbey with the delightful, thoughtful and brilliant author Nicola Cornick. We chatted over pots of tea in the pub, walked around the Abbey together, pondering its past life, and wittered some more on a bench in the old part of the Abbey Gardens. I hope you enjoy getting to know her as I did. A truly wonderful afternoon of a meeting of hearts and minds. 🤓
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Somewhat Shambolic Effort from Sutton Courtenay; and from Obadiah Slope
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Chiffchaff in a Churchyard; Wednesday Witterings; and C. Brontë’s Villette
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Young Canada, Villette, Eadwine, and Pepys
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Charlotte Brontë’s Villette: Chapter XXXVI ‘The Apple of Discord’
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Good evening and welcome to today’s second episode, where we continue with Charlotte Brontë’s Villette. A chapter that mulls the differences been Protestant and Roman Catholic faiths. I imagine Charlotte Brontë sometimes closing her eyes and writing straight from heightened or deepened feelings, where the plot is irrelevant: her pen creates a room or space full of contrasting thoughts, emotions, images and even sights and sounds. Plants are watered, canine ears are silky, we smell Catholic incense and hear the noise from a religious procession: all taking place in the mind and intense m...
A Saxon Cross-Slab at St Paul’s Church, Jarrow; and Mr Slope Schmoozes 🫣
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Villette Purls into the Heart; & Waterside Witterings
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Monday Literary Feast: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Samuel Pepys, William Hunt and Charlotte Brontë
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Good evening and thank you so much for joining me tonight. I hope you forgive the hesitations and deviations as I enjoy reading you this wonderful feast. What joy that all this marvellous stuff is out there to read - the trick is to try not to fret that life isn’t long enough!
How are you this fair Monday evening? What country are you from? Are you content? Would you like me to read you or a loved one a poem? Get in touch and let me know. Gretellem...
St Paul’s Church, Jarrow; Barchester Towers and a Clock-a-Clay
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Villette, by Charlotte Brontë. Is your lion couchant?
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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Across the Sea to Lindisfarne; Saxon and Medieval Ruins; the Petting Stone; and Bede’s Final Days
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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. We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.
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