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. 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 her for that. 🤓Gretel loves the world and history, architecture, literature and people. And...
Strictly Books: Trollope, Brontë, Pepys and The Chronicles
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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.
Gretel invites you to accompany her as she navigates the world a day at a time; the podcast is unscripted, it’s ad-free.
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A Woodland Walk with Puppy; Pepys has a Sore Testicle; and Mr Harding hopes to be Warden again
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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.
Gretel invites you to accompany her as she navigates the world a day at a time; the podcast is unscripted, it’s ad-free.
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A Saxon Church with a Remarkable Rood; and Chapter One of Villette, by Charlotte Brontë
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Good evening, how are you? Can we really be so far into this year. Why does time gallop 🏇? Why cannot spring rest awhile: dawdle, dally, linger or tarry?
Welcome to the fifth season, where we begin Charlotte Brontë’s exquisite novel, Villette. A gentle, soft-treading opening until you suddenly realise that you are deeply in. Enveloped in perceptive, intelligent brilliance.
It starts at around 30 minutes if you’d rather skip the church visiting.
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A Return to Sandhurst; Preface to Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge; and the Start of Something New (York) 🦢
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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.
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Strictly Dickens: Barnaby Rudge comes to a Close
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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.
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Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour.
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Tonight is our penultimate Barnaby Rudge, which is preceded with the usual garden chatter. Thank you so much for joining me, as always.
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Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers; and Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge
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Good evening and welcome to today’s episode where we progress with Barchester Towers and Chapters LXXVI and LXXVII of Barnaby Rudge.
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Hedgehogs🦔, Blackbirds 🐦⬛, and Garden Joy; A Brave Letter from Pepys; & The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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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.
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Strictly Dickens: Chapter LXXV. Darth Vader is spoken to by Obi-Wan Kenobi
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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.
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Bonus Episode: Chatterings with Daughter on the United States; Garden Ponderings; and Barchester Towers
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Good evening fair friends and any newcomers, welcome. There is no Dickens in this episode, so those wanting to tune in to the next episode can skip this one if they are not in the mood for witterings. Barchester Towers is proving to be a delight; and I hope you are enjoying it. I have found the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles under a bookcase, so I can continue with that tomorrow. Thank you for messaging me. I think Barnaby Rudge is now being enjoyed by most people. I will visit more churches over the next week, a...
Maundy Thursday Literary Litany: Fuller’s History; Sage Saints; Dicken’s America and Rudge; and Pepys’ Progress
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A Happy Scamper ‘Round Sherborne Museum; Barnaby Rudge; and a Saxon Wanderer
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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.
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Barnaby Rudge; Thomas Hardy; 19th Century Halifax NS; and Nonsense from Gretel in Sunshiney England 🌞
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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.
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Strictly Dickens: Chapters LXX and LXXI
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Thomas Hardy in Grief; Mr Slope’s Slippery Sermon; and Naked Wanderings in Wales
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Poor Barnaby Rudge misses his dogs in Chapter LXIX; the horrors of late-night travel; and a return to Sherborne
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Philippa Langley chats to Gretel about her Life, King Richard and Following the Evidence
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Good evening and welcome to this special episode where I meet the wonderful, intrepid and extraordinary Philippa Langley MBE. Philippa talks of her childhood, and of teenage bullying; of Charles II and those skeletons in the Westminster Abbey urn; of the 2025 court case; a ‘hunchback’ conspiracy discovered by Steve Coogan; of current research, and of future plans.
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An Expensive Goat and no Winter Coat; Dario talks Whisky; Barnaby Rudge comes to Edinburgh [Ch LXVIII]
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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: Strictly Dickens
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This second episode includes only Chapter LXVII of Barnaby Rudge. Is the tide turning? Is a glimmer of light challenging the dark? Let’s see…
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The Apparition of The Rood; Gnomic Verses; Playground Chants; Trollope; and Dickens
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Strictly Dickens: Chapters LXIV & LXV
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Sunday sunshine with Miss Miggs, the Wren, the Blackbird and Daisy Tangents
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Barnaby Rudge Chapter LXII; and we continue Hunt’s History of the English Church
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Haredale seeks Justice in B Rudge Ch LXI; Too much Gretel Wittering; and Mr Slope makes Enemies in Barchester Towers
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Hulloooo and welcome to another episode of this odd podcast that takes you on random adventures through life. Please go straight to minute 28 if you want to miss out the ridiculous chatter. Thank you to my kind volunteer subscribers and to my lovely new subscriber D. I appreciate it so much. Your voluntary subscriptions cover the charge by Buzzsprout to publish the podcast and leaves a handful of coins over to pop in church boxes.
The sunshine in England transforms the country: in how it looks and feels, and in how people...
Sunshine arrives in Sherborne; and the Rioters Reorg at Fleet Market in Ch LX
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Sprinkling of Saints; Tuesday Bells; and Vile Villains in Barnaby Rudge (Ch LIX)
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A Soldier’s Kindness in Barnaby Rudge; The Ruin: then and now; and Pepys Adopts the Periwig
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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.
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A Second Sunday Episode: Barnaby Rudge Chapter LVII
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Solomon Daisy has a Tough Day in Chapter LVI of Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens
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Dorchester in the Spring Sunshine; and Dickens’ words on Americans,
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Charles Dickens’ opinion of 19th century Americans; and a Terrifying Ch LV, of B Rudge
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Puppy Chaos; Sibling Sadness; Poor Maypole John in Chapter LIV of Barnaby Rudge
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Dear Friends, Newcomers and Blessed Subscribers, welcome to the latest madcap episode of the podcast, where chaos reigns at home and in Chigwell. Poor, dear John Willett, the Lord of his Maypole dominion, has a very bad day. I love this bullying, stupid, ridiculous man and grieve for him in today’s episode. People’s private and often pitiful-seeming prides should not be trounced upon. As we all, all of us, I think, have them, do we not? Things we cherish as part of our lives? A flowerbed? A book-case? A weekly responsibility? A growing...
‘Her Day-dreams Truth, and Truth a Dream’ (Sir Walter Scott); ‘A Moral Plague Ran Through the City’ (Charles Dickens)
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The Black Death; Abbey Bells; Puppy Mischief; and Chapter LII of B. Rudge
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Simon Tappertit shames himself in Barnaby Rudge; as does Samuel Pepys in his Diaries 🫣
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Barnaby Rudge Chapter L: the Sheep are Led Astray; and Church Architecture
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Good morning. Tis the early hours of Sunday morning and this is the first of two Sunday episodes. Tomorrow we will catch up with Pepys, Saints, Puppy and goodness knows what else. A glimpse inside a church or Abbey feels overdue.
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Dear Barnaby Rudge (Chs XLVIII/IX) and the Gordon Riots; A Gentle Poetic Counterpoint
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A bonus episode for those listening to Barnaby Rudge. ☺️
And let not the lesser things hold your gaze. It is the sparkle on the stream that feeds our heart, frees our mind and blesses our soul…
Thank you for joining me on this journey x 🌳
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Puppy Patience; New York in the 1840s; and Marvellous Grip in Barnaby Rudge as the Plot breaks into a Canter
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Barnaby Rudge Chapters XLV and XLVI; Sympathy for the Devil
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Barnaby Rudge Chapter XLIV; Trollope describes a Spongy Nose; Dickens in America; and New Puppy Chaos
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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.
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