Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests

56:02

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles Martyrdom of Archbishop...

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

2026/10/05

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 over 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the ...

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53:34

Rory Bremner shows Gretel his Trump Impression;...

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

2026/10/02

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 over 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the ...

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71:45

Mary Bateson: The Story of the Nations • Monasteries...

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

2026/09/30

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Hello, a very good, if late Wednesday evening. Today’s episode is just one thing: a long reading from the wonderful history book by Mary Bateson. It’s obviously just for those interested in church and monastic history. I find it all jolly fascinating. Sending you HUGE joy and love Gretel x 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 ...

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67:31

Meadow Meander; Tuesday Bells; and Trollopean...

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

2026/09/29

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 over 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the ...

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51:56

A Whisper of Wellness, while Pepys prepares for War,...

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

2026/09/27

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 over 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the ...

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42:24

A Book at Bedtime: Marie of Hesse and Barchester Towers

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

2026/09/26

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 over 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the ...

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84:38

John Clare’s Schoolboys; Ullathorne’s Quintain; and...

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

2026/09/24

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 over 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the ...

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72:17

A Pinch of Bernard Shaw; a Sprinkle of Samuel Pepys;...

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

2026/09/23

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Thank you, thank you, thank you for joining me and bearing with me. I couldn’t be more grateful for your support and comforted by your presence. WHAT a relief to return home: I will never return to my mother’s house now and a door is closed. But memories come into their own, and for anyone in such a position, it is a part of life - a normal part of life. Gretel must put her best foot forward, feed the animals, care for her famil...

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78:09

Benedict Biscop: a Detailed Death; A Life in Boxes;...

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

2026/09/22

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 over 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the ...

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67:54

A Catch-Up in Barchester Towers; and Gretel heads to...

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

2026/09/20

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 over 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the ...

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115:54

The Dedicated Listener meets a Brontë, a Chronicle,...

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

2026/09/17

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Dear Friend So very much is going on, with my mother’s house about to be sold, relationship with siblings improving (thank GOODNESS), and Son off to university, not to mention Husband doing All-Sorts, that I needed an evening shut away with my books and you, dear listener, are the poor victim of all this. BUT I think this stuff - all of it - is so interesting and mind-expanding that I would be over-the- moon if you do actually enjoy it or at lea...

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54:13

The Tuesday Bells 🔔; Shenanigans in Barchester; and...

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

2026/09/15

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ 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. 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...

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58:58

Gretel gives impromptu Sermon; Childe Okeford...

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

2026/09/14

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 over 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the ...

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69:10

The Ancient Tale of Robin Hood; St Paul’s Church,...

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

2026/09/12

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 nearly 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on th...

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54:03

The Brontës, Samuel Pepys and Fuller’s Curious Church...

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

2026/09/12

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 nearly 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on th...

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42:52

Obadiah Slope’s Slippery Scheme; Windy Wittering; and...

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

2026/09/10

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 nearly 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on th...

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50:47

A Book at Bedtime: a collection of readings including...

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

2026/09/08

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 nearly 80,000 downloads. Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed. Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on th...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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