Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests

Send us Fan Mail I wish you all a peaceful evening. The air is cold and still in the south west of England and Advent is whispering its presence around the corner.  I’m coming, it murmurs, enjoying the irony of the words.  And all will be well.  Best wishes to all,  Grete x ☕️ Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time.  She shares wi...

Send us Fan Mail Good evening friends.  I would be so pleased if you would join me for fifteen minutes of peaceful readings as we inch towards the Christmas Season.  Thank you for helping me get to a half-century.  🥳 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...

Send us Fan Mail Good evening. Thank you so much for joining me this evening as I walk this path into the unknown.   Like life itself, it’s a pilgrim’s progress for us all.   The doldrums are unavoidable but The Bear Hunt 🐻 sets out how to get to the other side: you can’t get over it; you can’t go round it; so put on those wellies and let’s go through it - together.  Hand in hand.   Good night fo...

Send us Fan Mail A peaceful Sunday to all on this rather wild corner of SouthWest England. 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 Good afternoon.  I would be delighted if you would join me as I walk in the hooley to Sherborne’s Abbey.  The wind is far too loud so a bit of fast-forwarding might be necessary.  I take you inside the Abbey to visit the bones of former Wessex kings.  And then we read Bede’s famous telling of the story of ‘Angli’ slaves in Rome.   Apologies again for the sound at one point and tha...

Send us Fan Mail Good evening.  Do join me as we read Bede’s words about the life of Pope Gregory.   Wishing a restful Friday to 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 churches, cathe...

Send us Fan Mail Good afternoon and forgive the cheeky frog in my throat as I read more from TS Eliot and Bede. We awoke to snow in Dorset today, much to the delight of dog and horror of cat.   Wishing you all a restful Thursday on this beautiful planet. 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 boo...

Send us Fan Mail Good morning.  I would be so delighted if you would join me for a quarter of an hour in my garden in the south west corner of the British Isles, where neither motorway nor city be there (true fact about Dorset!).  Today I encourage us all to have the courage of our own minds; we look at English hedges and we bring to a close Bede’s first book.  There are five in total, so we are a...

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 Monday afternoon and welcome to a rainy dog walk and a letter of chastisement from Pope Gregory to Augustine, proud of his miracles.  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 exp...

Send us Fan Mail Please join me on my garden bench for some gentle readings.  Yet I’ll go no more a-roving, by the light of the moon 🌓🙋‍♀️ 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,...

Send us Fan Mail Dear friends, life can be so tough.  Routine can help in dark times and so the routine of daily readings, whether Bede or Tintin, especially out-loud, is something to hold on to.  Little life-jackets, are these simple tools, to get us through dark patches.  Counting blessings, too, is another life-jacket to turn to.  Nothing can fix but lots and lots of things can comfort and soot...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I visit a few spots in Dorset, then a small church in Somerset before finishing with Gregory’s letter to the Bishop of Arles in Bede. 🤗 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 location...

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 Welcome! I have taken you to the ancient hilltop town of Malmesbury, Wiltshire.  Please check out the photographs on platforms X or BlueSky by searching for Gretel le Maitre or @leshuguenots.   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...

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 You’ve got to admire St Augustine for his frank questions!  Are you ready to get baffled by Wulfys? Tonight’s episode is just for the stout-hearted. Tomorrow I’m going to take you into a deep, dark wood..  as the moon waxes and winter draws near.  Alone with the leaves, the graves and the bats 🦇 . Please do leave comments on what you would like more or less of.   Thank you for ke...

Send us Fan Mail (I apologise for a few moments of stumbling words today.  I’m a little under the weather. ) Today I would be delighted if you would join me as I take you inside Sherborne Abbey as it prepares for the Service of Remembrance.  Followed by Victorian enlightenment in Bedlam Hospital and closing with more wisdom  from Pope Gregory, with an instruction to separate the wheat from the cha...

Send us Fan Mail Oh wild west wind!  Do join me this evening for a few words from Shelley, some nuggets of information about Northumbrian scriptoriums, an update on Sherborne Abbey’s origins, and St Augustine’s next questions to Pope Gregory.  Can one lie with one’s stepmother? A peaceful Saturday to all and thank you for honouring me with your ears 🤗🙋‍♀️🍂 Support the show Gretel le Maître like...

Send us Fan Mail Good evening and thank you for joining me this Friday 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....

Send us Fan Mail Hello! Please join me as we go inside St Nicholas church of Bratton Seymour, Somerset.    Then we listen to Bede telling of St Augustine’s questions for the Pope.   An incredible glimpse into the mind of a long-dead man of huge historical importance. 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 snip...

Send us Fan Mail Art galleries, the origin of Sherborne, teetolling and Bede are gentle pondered this evening.  I would be so delighted if you would join me. But please note the unattractive word ‘anus’ makes an unwelcome appearance. Episode 30 today.  I’m very grateful for your company on this walk into the unknown..  🤓🙋‍♀️ Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curi...

Send us Fan Mail It was for days like these that I decided to put distance between emotional strain and my head resting on the pillow by reading aloud from books.  Books, poems, art, music, these things can help us in times of strain beyond measure.  They bring knowledge, bring joy and bring an intercession in the strain in which one can breathe and feel whole again before stepping off again on th...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and please join me as I sit in candlelight on a grey Monday and bring a little bit of cosiness to your lives as we ponder parenting, mull over apses and catch up with our venerable friend.   It would be so kind if you have time to rate this show.   Though I fear you’ll deduct points for my prononciation of ‘induction’ 🤨.  Bonne journée 🙋‍♀️ Support the show Gretel le Maîtr...

Send us Fan Mail Hello friends in America and countries other than my home turf.  How much of an honour to be listened to across the other side of the earth.   Thank you for your kind comments.  It would be so kind if you might consider giving this wee podcast a rating if you have the time.   With best wishes to you.  Happy Sunday evening mes amis 🙋‍♀️🌞🌳 Support the show Gretel le Maître likes...