Gretel le Maître
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. 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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Latest episode
Jul 10, 2026
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Episodes
Hallelujah, it’s time for Saturday histories. 08.02.2025 19:00
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...
Mr Katt battles for the lap as he’s told stories of Caesar and long-dead Nuns 07.02.2025 24:54
Send us Fan Mail Thank you so much for joining me. Your company and support brings huge joy and comfort. I wish you a happy and restful weekend ahead. 🌷 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 e...
February is Spring's Promise; A visit to a hidden Dorset hamlet ; and Caesar is surprised by the turning tides 06.02.2025 22:52
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 peek into Sherborne Abbey; Norman Churches; and the Iron Age 05.02.2025 21:51
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 Windy Bridge-Crossing and Historical Musings 04.02.2025 22:27
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 66,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...
High hopes and Gratitude are our Sword and Shield; Julius Caesar sniffs the English shores; and Bede records some sensible Synodical Decisions 03.02.2025 24:28
Send us Fan Mail Come with me and keep me company this third day of February. We are walking together and can choose whether to be annoyed by the companions who grumble and argue and point out the mud and cold; or to link arms with the loving, good people. Think Atticus; think the Princess of Wales; think Floella Benjamin, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama. And who do we have closer...
Another visit to Mr Robin and the Church at Corton Denham; we finish Winston Churchill’s marvellous Preface to his History 02.02.2025 20:25
Send us Fan Mail I wish you a very peaceful Sunday evening.🤗🫖 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!! H...
Sadness; Sherborne’s Conduit; and Remembering Chad 01.02.2025 31:32
Send us Fan Mail Good evening. I wish you a very happy first day of February, 2025. 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 dow...
Les oiseaux, Churchill’s History and Chad’s last hours; our first garden pot of tea 🫖 31.01.2025 24:04
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...
Sherborne Bells strike Twelve; Spring Birds Gladden the Heart; Churchill's Preface to his History; and Bede 30.01.2025 30:16
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...
Hallelujah for Handel; London Dining in 1915 and Catholicism blooms in England 29.01.2025 17:59
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...
Bell-ringing, AA Milne poetry and Book Four begun 28.01.2025 17:14
Send us Fan Mail Good evening. The following salad of words show that AI has a long way to go. AI has put together a ‘blog’ to go with this episode and I paste it here for your wry amusement 🤨😄 Have you ever pondered the whimsical adventures that a simple request for butter could spark? In tonight’s episode, we are swept away by the charming sounds of the Sherbourne Abbey Bells, setting the sc...
The streets of London; listening in to Choir Practice (and weeping); A message of love to dear America 🇺🇸 and we close Book Three with Bede 27.01.2025 22:29
Send us Fan Mail Hello dear friends Thank you so very much for joining me for this evening’s episode, from Chelsea in London, England, where all is dark, windy and wet. But - there is (must always be) a but - the days are getting longer; the male blackbirds 🐦⬛ have started their beautifully tuneful courting; the snow-drops are peeping up; and God is, perhaps, in His heaven. Peace can be found...
Epiphany Service at Chelsea Old Church, Finding Peace in beautiful old Buildings, and Bede 26.01.2025 27:16
Send us Fan Mail Good evening. How are you and how has your week been? Tonight’s episode includes earwigging a beautiful service of Epiphany at Chelsea Old Church, where Saint Thomas More and his family worshipped and was bombed almost to destruction during the Second World War. Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time. She sha...
A London Mooch About with Bede in my Back-Pocket 25.01.2025 13:52
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...
Rural society in the 1840s; the Ubiquity of Social Division; and our dear Bede 24.01.2025 28:58
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...
Seagulls swirl over Sherborne Abbey; their Freedom contrasting with the poor condemned of Newgate Gaol. Charles Dickens at his descriptive best. 23.01.2025 25:18
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 66,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...
A Visit, by Charles Dickens, to Newgate Gaol; and Bede tells of the Goodness of the Northumbrian Clergy 22.01.2025 25:27
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 66,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...
A Gentle Zooming in on Thomas Hardy’s Under The Greenwood Tree 22.01.2025 32:13
Send us Fan Mail Hello dear friends; I’m publishing two episodes today. This first takes you deeper into understanding Hardy’s wonderful Under The Greenwood Tree. I have read this petite, delightful novel at times in my life when its words of charm and cheer have fed hope and warmth back into my veins. It is a self-indulgence of mine to dwell so much upon it. 😬 Support the show Gretel le Maît...
Hope is the Thing with Feathers; a Walk in the Meadow; and Easter is settled 21.01.2025 21:39
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 Thomas Hardy from 1940 and more Easter arguments 20.01.2025 25:31
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 66,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...
Sunday is Music Day 😀; Saxon Costume; The Arguments about Easter rumble on 19.01.2025 21:37
Send us Fan Mail Good afternoon and a very warm welcome to today’s episode. 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. T...
Housewives’ tips from the Abbey bench; Saxon clothing; and Bede frets again about Easter 18.01.2025 18:25
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 66,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of...
Home Sweet Home with special guest Mr Katt as we read about the American Civil War before our friend Bede 17.01.2025 16:19
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...
Podcasting from a Battersea Care Home, Chelsea History, a Choir Practice and a Saxon Princess offered to God 16.01.2025 18:41
Send us Fan Mail 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!! Historian...
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