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Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests

Gretel le Maître

Now 1000 downloads per week, Total 36, 000 downloadsRegular top ten spot in 3 categories GoodPodsRanked in Top 10 % of Global Rankings (Listen Notes)No ads, team or subscription costDaily outputScript-free*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

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28:43

Saint Columba and the Scotts Guards 💂

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2025/10/13

Send us a text Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature...

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37:56

Sherborne prepares for Pack Monday, Peter Wimsey gets...

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2025/10/12

Send us a text Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature...

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24:37

Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates; while Richard of York...

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2025/10/12

Send us a text Hallo! Thank you so much for joining me. There’ll be a second episode this evening, with some music from Sherborne Abbey. Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted...

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31:42

Saturday morning Saints; Cuthbert nibbles on Five...

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2025/10/11

Send us a text Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 33, 000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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39:34

The Hedgehogs are Awake still; The Marvellous...

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2025/10/09

Send us a text Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 33, 000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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34:36

Three Men (and a 🐕) out of their Boat; a Medley of...

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2025/10/09

Send us a text Hello and a very good morning from Buckfast Abbey. Today we finish Three Men in a Boat and I wend my way back to Dorset, where the cat and dog will need their usual post-separation reassurance. The sun is shining here and I hope it is for you too. Thank you for joining me. 😀🌳🍂 Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE...

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27:00

We close our summer with JL Carr: ‘there will always...

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2025/10/08

Send us a text ‘They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass’ Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 33, 000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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49:25

The Breath of Autumnal Air in Oxgodby; Gretel waffles...

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2025/10/07

Send us a text The second episode today, to listen to while tucking into bed with warm milk and an extra blanket. 🍂 Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 33, 000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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28:10

Buckfast Abbey; John Clare and Saints Bruno and Foy.

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2025/10/07

Send us a text Good evening. This is the first of two episodes, and this one ends without so much as a goodbye, for which I apologise. Come with me to Devonshire where we rest at a place of peace and tranquility. Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 33, 000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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38:46

A Month in the Country takes us to Ripon; a Barking...

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2025/10/06

Send us a text Hello dear friends, subscribers and newcomers. Welcome to this odd podcast where everything is free, no adverts are there ever, and all it is is a daily chatter, bringing in literature from the past and the hope that we can create a little safe haven of peace and gentleness, kindness and hope. The only price you have to pay is putting up with the fact that nothing is edited or scripted so it’s all jolly ad hoc. But if you can put up with that, then you can joi...

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33:11

An Unexpected Chat with Genius Composer Matthew...

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2025/10/04

Send us a text Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 32,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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47:39

Laurel & Hardy; Saints Galore; and Mr Birkin Misses...

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2025/10/03

Send us a text Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 32,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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43:31

Autumnal Interlude 🍁🍂🦔

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2025/10/02

Send us a text Good evening This is a little interlude, reading a chapter from Eleanor Parker’s lovely book ‘Winters in the World’, about the Anglo-Saxon year. This is the chapter about the difficult-to-grasp season of Autumn 🍂 I hope you are well! 🤗🍂🦔 Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 32,000 All-time Downloads since October 202...

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47:34

Tom Birkin ponders Hell; Mortimers Cross; and...

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2025/10/01

Send us a text Welcome to today’s episode and thank you for your support and messages. 🤗🌷🦔 Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 32,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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33:58

Mr Birkin’s Anger for the Lost Sons; Mr Katt gets a...

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2025/09/30

Send us a text Hallo hallo hallo! How are you this evening? Thank you so much for your wonderful messages of support and suggestions. So many lovely ideas. Oh and if you could spare the time, I would be so grateful if you would possibly give me a kind review and a high rating. It means a lot and I read every review. There are lots of platforms that all keep their own review averages, so if you’ve done it on one, it would be amazing if you possibly did it on anot...

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69:35

A Murmuration of Ponderings; Pepys visits Portsmouth...

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2025/09/29

Send us a text Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 32,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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7:40

A Teeny Witter or Interlude

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2025/09/29

Send us a text Hello, this is another recording that I couldn’t work out how to add to, but rather than delete it, here it is. I arrive at the beautiful driveway to Kelvedon Hall, where nuthatches, buzzards and coots abound. 😊 Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 32,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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37:34

The George and Dragon at Wargrave; Montmorency burns...

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2025/09/29

Send us a text Good morning. Today Jerome K Jerome’s gentlemen (et chien) visit The George and Dragon at Wargrave and The Bull Inn at Sonning. Both pubs are still open and thriving and I’ve popped photographs onto social media. Isn’t it every English person’s dream to walk, row, cycle or chug along the Thames from source to tide? I’m heading to Kelvedon Hall today because I’m deeply interested in the life and times of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon. Reading his diari...

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36:06

The Brothers York; Lolly Willowes; and the Tale of a...

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

2025/09/28

Send us a text Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 32,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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50:39

An Unfortunate Bishop’s But(t) as Gretel sinks into A...

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2025/09/26

Send us a text Support the show Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Your daily dose of calm. Episodes daily, no ads, no subscriptions required. 😊 #1 GOODPODS PODCAST OF THE WEEK: 32,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝

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