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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Jul 10, 2026
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Episodes
Poems; Pell Mell; and The Spell 23.12.2025 39:36
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...
Fancy is helped by a Woodland Witch; Wolsey gives his Necklace to Harry Norris; and Mr Katt makes a Vocal appearance 22.12.2025 37:26
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...
Nutting, beekeeping and folly in Melstock; Wolsey avoids the Tower and kisses the earth; and a visit to The Farmer’s Dog 21.12.2025 1:00:46
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...
Will you join the dance? Said a Whiting to a Snail 🐌; Dick Dewy Fumes 20.12.2025 37:11
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...
Under the Greenwood tree 🌳 as Gretel sleeps under a Cotswolds sky 19.12.2025 13:11
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 Jabberwocky; the Tide has Turned for Wolsey; and Dick Dewy contends with a Flight of Fancy 18.12.2025 34:20
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...
Christmas Shenanigans in Sherborne Abbey; and Dick asks Fancy the Question ☺️ 17.12.2025 44:44
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...
Fancy Day tells Dick Dewy she loves him ‘a little’; a Dunnock; and Emily Dickinson 16.12.2025 26:30
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 Tranter has the measure of Fancy Day; Gretel Ponders her childhood Christmas; and we Grieve in Cranford 15.12.2025 1:17:01
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...
Do you have an honest soul? Hands that Touch; A Handful of Saints; and King Henry VIII holds all power in his Hands 14.12.2025 53:29
Send us Fan Mail Good day and thank you for joining me. I’m very honoured and grateful. If you’re here for the first time and think ‘what on earth is this unprofessional rubbish?’ then stay your judgement and you might find that after a few listens you are enfolded into a world of gentleness. Nothing is asked of you other than to rest awhile, if you can and enjoy this podcast like you might enj...
Bellowing Boys and Bells 13.12.2025 30:53
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...
‘I never had no head, sir’ said Leaf, Under the Greenwood Tree; Pepys’ Progress; and Kindness in Cranford. 🌳 12.12.2025 56:36
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 Clare’s Invitation to his Love; and poor Leaf’s Grief 11.12.2025 28:53
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 Splendour of Sherborne House; the Dolour of Division; and the Duke of Suffolk Raptly Rebuked; 10.12.2025 1:06:32
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 celebrate Ambrose, the influential Bishop of Milan; and Dick Dewey returns a lady’s handkerchief 09.12.2025 39:22
Send us Fan Mail Hello dear friends, followers, kind subscribers and newcomers. My aim with this daily meandering through life is to find purpose for myself by expanding my mind and horizons while connecting with other people seeking to do the same thing. My hope is that you feel welcome to join me as and when you are in need of some gentle company. I want to share beautiful literature and po...
Robert Frost and John Clare; Flu en Famille; A Cardinal’s Point; and Dick dances away with Miss Day 08.12.2025 38:36
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 and the Buffleheaded Mayor; Dick Dewey’s Pains of Jealousy; and George Eliot’s Exquisite Observations 07.12.2025 1:06:20
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 Abbey Porch provides shelter; Dick Dewey is Smitten; and Gretel lights Candles 06.12.2025 28:42
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...
Hardy: The Insult Lies in the Nothingness of the Deed; Ode to Nanny; Pepys; Saints; and Queen Catherine rocks 06.12.2025 53:50
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 Daughter in Les Misérables; A Full Super Moon; and Under the Greenwood Tree forces Gretel into song 04.12.2025 30:44
Send us Fan Mail Hello and thank you so much for joining me. It is an honour to have your company and I’m very grateful. Stick around if you can - dip in and out and know that I’m here to give you a little gentle company. No subject - or level of randomness - is off limits. Tomorrow we will catch up with Pepys, Cranford, Wilford and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Love Gretel xx Support the show Gr...
A Bunion is Given Consideration by Mellstock’s Shoemaker 03.12.2025 41:43
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...
Sir Simon Jenkins, talks of his twin passions for politics and architecture; and Gretel lets herself and all Dorset folk down on day two of Under the Greenwood Tree 02.12.2025 1:01:03
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...
‘To Dwellers in a Wood almost every Species of Tree has its Voice as well as its Feature’ 01.12.2025 46:19
Send us Fan Mail Dear old friends and new friends. Happy December the first. The opening of Advent and the beginning of winter. How are you? Are you fearing the month ahead? Daunted? Overwhelmed? Excited? Moved? Is this a Christmas without a loved one? I’m interested, truly, so let me know. Sharing and connecting really does help. Thank you to Diane for her poem recommendation, Robert Fr...
Picts Gathering Like Swarms of Ants 🐜; Norman English Architecture; a Tidbit of Thomas Hardy; and France Woos Wolsey 01.12.2025 51:38
Send us Fan Mail Thank you so much for joining me on Advent Sunday. This is such a special, beautiful time of year. I hope you are well and able to keep out the noise, and stay rooted to that peace that we all have - all of us - deep within. Love Gretel xx 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...
Pepys Leaps his Garden Fence; Mr Oldinport Squeezes his Tenants; and a Mother’s Dead Hand 30.11.2025 40:02
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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