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 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 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 this special episode where I meet the wonderful, intrepid and extraordinary Philippa Langley MBE.  Philippa talks of her childhood, and of teenage bullying; of Charles II and those skeletons in the Westminster Abbey urn; of the 2025 court case; a ‘hunchback’ conspiracy discovered by Steve Coogan; of current research, and of future plans.   Support the s...

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 second episode includes only Chapter LXVII of Barnaby Rudge.  Is the tide turning?  Is a glimmer of light challenging the dark?  Let’s see… 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 n...

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 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 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 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 Hulloooo and welcome to another episode of this odd podcast that takes you on random adventures through life.  Please go straight to minute 28 if you want to miss out the ridiculous chatter.  Thank you to my kind volunteer subscribers and  to my lovely new subscriber D.  I appreciate it so much.  Your voluntary subscriptions cover the charge by Buzzsprout to publish the podcast an...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Dear Friends, Newcomers and Blessed Subscribers, welcome to the latest madcap episode of the podcast, where chaos reigns at home and in Chigwell.  Poor, dear John Willett, the Lord of his Maypole dominion, has a very bad day.  I love this bullying, stupid, ridiculous man and grieve for him in today’s episode.  People’s private and often pitiful-seeming prides should not be trounce...

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 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 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 morning.  Tis the early hours of Sunday morning and this is the first of two Sunday episodes.  Tomorrow we will catch up with Pepys, Saints, Puppy and goodness knows what else.  A glimpse inside a church or Abbey feels overdue. Thank you so much for joining me.  If you like this ridiculous endeavour the ways you can help make my heart sing are: 1. Download each episode  2. Fo...

Send us Fan Mail A bonus episode for those listening to Barnaby Rudge.  ☺️ And let not the lesser things hold your gaze.  It is the sparkle on the stream that feeds our heart, frees our mind and blesses our soul…  Thank you for joining me on this journey 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 snippets fro...

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...