Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests

47:30

A Walk in Cerne Abbas; Fuller’s Church History of...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/09/06

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Support the show 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 76,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites...

en-gb

56:48

How to get rid of a horse, in The Pickwick Papers;...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/09/05

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Support the show 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 76,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites...

en-gb

34:19

Lucy, the Lundy Island Native, talks to Gretel

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/09/03

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ 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 h...

en-gb

51:17

A Nightingale & Orange Tree delight Pepys 🍊; a Saxon...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/09/02

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ 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. I hope you are well. Thank you so much for joining me. Love Gretel Support the show 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 litera...

en-gb

37:47

Purely Pickwick

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/31

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 76,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

49:21

Lundy

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/30

Send us Fan Mail 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. Support the show 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 76...

en-gb

69:38

The Wholeness of Holiness; Wordsworth; The Jamaica...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/27

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 76,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

67:41

St James’s Palace; Barchester Towers; Scottish Kings...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/25

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 76,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

76:13

Fluffy Dunnock passes by; Mr Winkle avoids a Duel and...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/24

Send us Fan Mail Good evening 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 Gask...

en-gb

40:09

The Wanderer; Haworth in the 1820s; Sam Pepys; and a...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/22

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 76,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

51:53

Flying Geese & The Pickwick Papers, by Dickens, from...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/21

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 73,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

30:36

And We’re Off: London and Pickwick 🥳

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/18

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 73,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

78:33

Strictly Books: Haworth ‘Arvills; Young Christianity...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/15

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 73,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

50:57

Drama in Barchester Towers; and we revisit St...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/14

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 73,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

32:14

Pepys, Poetry, Chronicle and Courage

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/13

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 73,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

61:38

Villette, by Charlotte Brontë, says its Adieu

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/11

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 73,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

43:41

The Life of Bede; Tuesday Bells; Dear Mr Pepys; and...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/11

Send us Fan Mail We also hear from wise and ever curious Alexander Pope, as he ponders a good life. Support the show 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 73,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Pat...

en-gb

48:00

A Flying visit to Bury St Edmunds; and Chapter XL of...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/09

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 73,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

98:47

Wide mouthed-Hate-dents, Yorkshire and Barchester...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/08

Send us Fan Mail 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. Nigh...

en-gb

38:46

‘To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her...

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other... ·

2026/08/06

Send us Fan Mail Support the show 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 73,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her...

en-gb

All Episodes

Similar Podcasts

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Soundcheck

WNYC Studios

Abstract Essay

Daniel Lucas

Considering Art Podcast

Bob Chaundy

Hung up

Matt Sitas and Aiden Loughlin