Gretel le Maître

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests

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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 67,000 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 warm...

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Gretel le Maître

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Arts

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Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

The English Village and the Sherborne Conduit 08.07.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

Kent becomes Christian once more; Choral Music soothes; and Pepys judges Charles II and his brother quite ordinary. 07.07.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

Pepys’ thoughts on the King; Childhood Music; and the Debate continues 06.07.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

Horace Walpole counters Thomas More in The Great Debate; and we Ponder Early Christianity in Cornwall 05.07.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

Murder of Princes; Time to Stop and Stare; the Cornish Sea and Sore Hearts 04.07.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

A Lost Episode; Thomas More speaks the apparent final concerned words of Edward IV; and we look forward to time by the Cornish Coast 03.07.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

Covid Returns; Dunstan’s early life in Glastonbury; and poor Oliver Plunkett 02.07.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

A return to a Dorset garden where Thomas More tells of Richard III’s pitiless cruelty; Samuel Pepys turns 28; and we ponder Saint Peter 01.07.2025

Send us Fan Mail Happy 1st July dear friends.   How are you this balmy evening? Or is the weather doing something completely different where you are?  Would you like to help me keep this podcast going by signing up to a small monthly subscription or a one off contribution?  I will always keep this ad-free despite the many offers I get, but it does mean it remains purely a labour of love.  It would...

A hot June day, out and about in Bury St Edmunds 01.07.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

We’re back in beautiful Bury St Edmund’s; Visit the resting place of Martha’s Vineyard’s Marthas; & ponder the origins and development of Peterborough 🌟 30.06.2025

Send us Fan Mail Hello I do hope you are well. Thank you so much for joining me as we walk the gentle path of curiosity and kindness with humour.  Somehow - thanks to you - this podcast is now in the top ten per cent of podcasts according to the Listener Notes Global Rankings.  This gives me great joy and amusement because I know only too well how my garbled witterings compares to the marvellous,...

The Dastardly Richard III, by Thomas More; and the Slaughter of the Fowls on a Sultry Saturday 28.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

St Wulfsige and Dunstan; Cyril of Alexander; and Mrs Bat 🦇 27.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

A Gold Ring Found; Cromwell’s Head in the eaves of Westminster Hall; and Bede tells of Cuthbert’s childhood as Gretel watches the sunrise 🌅 26.06.2025

Send us Fan Mail Hello and thank you so much for joining me.   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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Hi...

Bede uses the phrase ‘hair-splitting’; dead Cromwell is hanged at Tyburn; and we ponder the Royal Bones in Sherborne Abbey 25.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Dunstan, Pepys and Bede 24.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

Charles Dickens writes of New Year’s Eve; Saint Etheldreda and Ponderings on Grief 23.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

The Boisterous Royal Ascot, Pepys and young Dunstan 22.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

An Introduction to the Great Dunstan on a Warm Solstice Eve 20.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

The bells ring and we ponder English Houses with Betjeman 19.06.2025

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this evening’s episode, all recorded au dehors, surrounded by swifts and other merry birds, on a balmy evening here in the lap of Dorset. I would be so grateful and chuffed if you would recommend this to any friend or relative, particularly anyone who lives alone and / or needs some comfort and gentle companionship. I am also nearly back at 5 Stars 🌟 but need a few mor...

Poor Henchard contemplates the River below; and we ponder London with a woeful extract from John Betjeman 18.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

John Betjeman on Churchyards; we close the year 1660; and remember St Alban 17.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

Blue Peter in 1971; the resetting of Canterbury Cathedral’s East End and a Wistful John Clare 16.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

Pepys, St Vitus and Medieval Power Play in Canterbury 15.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

We visit Thomas Hardy’s childhood church, St Michael’s Stinsford, and catch a little of the King’s Birthday Parade. 🇬🇧 14.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

Pepys eats Neat’s Tongue; we celebrate Leo III and Anthony of Padua; and ponder Canterbury Cathedral’s Crypt 13.06.2025

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 66,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...

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