Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests

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...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Solstice friends and let me take you to an old, old part of Dorset, where the wind scoots round the old ruins of Sherborne’s first castle, a thousand years old.   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 adven...

Send us Fan Mail Good evening friends. King Oswald and Scrooge join me for tonight’s episode on faith, love and redemption. We can all choose to be kind and loving as we awake tomorrow, blessed with another day in this world.   ⭐️ 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 a...

Send us Fan Mail After yesterday’s dash to London I’m back in my cosy, warm house with my family.  We start Book Three tonight from Bede’s Ecclesiastical History. Thank you 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...

Send us Fan Mail Dear kind folk.  I awoke to hear of my mother taking a poorly turn so I dashed to London, sans Bede and sans (😬) change of clothes..  BUT Sir Walter Scott sidled up to me and whispered again a poem of hillocks, trees, leaves and glen.  So stop with me a while, and hear his words, and rest your guile. Thank you for joining me 🌷 ERROR: I say he wrote Marmion December 1806 but it w...

Send us Fan Mail Hello friends and thank you for joining me for this episode where I mull family relationships and take us through to the end of the second book of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History.  Bravo if you’ve kept up so far.  😄 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 a...

Send us Fan Mail Hello dear friends and welcome to my Monday podcast, read by the Abbey under a huge beautiful moon.  Good wishes to you all.   🌒🎄🤗 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...

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...

Send us Fan Mail Hallo and thank you so much for joining me this chilly day in December.  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...

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...

Send us Fan Mail Good evening fine folk and friends.  What a day!  An afternoon in the National Gallery, the Christmas Tree of Trafalgar Square and the incredible David Tennant in the Macbeth of all Macbeths.  Bede is fast asleep in my suitcase and wouldn’t be disturbed this evening.   He’ll be waking me up for Matins ‘ere long. Goodnight 🎭🤗 Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for th...

Send us Fan Mail Good afternoon!  It is dark in London though only 4pm.  Today’s podcast takes you from the noisy tractor-tooting streets of Westminster, to a 12th century church of serene beauty containing the remains of poor Walter Raleigh.  Do join me on today’s journey.   With huge thanks to my third subscriber: do let me know if you would like to be mentioned by name. 🌷 Support the show Gret...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and good afternoon! Thank you so much for joining me and for the two kind ladies who have subscribed to this podcast.  I don’t do any sort of ‘extras’ but if subscribers send me their name and address I will send a card of thank you. Today I shout at my dog - oh dear! - and take you inside my favourite abbey to overhear some children’s voices singing Christmas carols.  Wishi...

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...

Send us Fan Mail Good evening this short winter’s day.  A time for hunkering down, music, candles and cosy family time.  🤗🎄 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...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and good evening from a WINDY Dorset. 🤓🎄🔔 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!...

Send us Fan Mail Good evening and welcome to my podcast of ponderings as we try to walk the path of gentleness, kindness and curiosity.  I hope you are well as we creep towards the darkest part of the year in England.  Hello if you’re from another country: do introduce yourself and I will say hello to you on the podcast, or can wish you a merry Christmas.   Support the show Gretel le Maître likes...

Send us Fan Mail Hello!  Please join me as I play you the sounds of the River Yeo and read the most extraordinary letter from Pope Boniface to King Edwin.   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 ex...

Send us Fan Mail Hello! Welcome to today’s optimistic and peaceful edition of Podponderings with Gretel.  I read a Christmassy passage from Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree; read from Pepy’s diary from 4th December 1660 and take us to Northumbria in Bede’s historical record.  Do leave a review or rating on your podcast platform if you have the time.  I would be so chuffed if you could 😃.   Love G...

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...

Send us Fan Mail Good evening and welcome to my quiet podcast about walking a path towards unwanted yet unavoidable loss.  Thank you for being my companion and I, in turn, am yours.   With all best wishes for this second day of December.   🙋‍♀️🤗🔔 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 ab...

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...

Send us Fan Mail Hello, good evening and welcome to the 54th podcast.  There has been one a day since October 8th and I would love to hear from you if you’ve listened to every episode.  If you submit a review and DM your address I will pop a Christmas card in the post and will include a fun fact from history or marvellous quote from Shakespeare.   I wish you all a peaceful Advent Eve and thank you...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome.  This is a podcast for the curious, the knowledge-collector and the peace-seeker.  Thank you for joining me on this path.  The way may be tricky at times but we will never gaze at our feet for long.  For there are trees and birds to our left and right; books to read while we rest and above us, the skies.  There is always a song to hum and companionship to be found.   We n...

Send us Fan Mail Hello do join me for a few minutes of gentle ponderings.  🌷🤗 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....