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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Jul 10, 2026
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Episodes
Meet Grimy and Dirty Dame Fripp; and Watch as Splendid Cardinal Wolsey Weeps in Canterbury 29.11.2025 32:48
Send us Fan Mail Hello and a very happy Saturday. The last weekend in November. Tomorrow is Advent Sunday and Monday is the 1st. We’re also due another full super moon next week. The waxing gibbous looks beautiful in the sky. How are you and are you looking forward to Advent? Do you buy a calendar and join in the fun? Or do you find it all rather tedious? Best wishes to you and I hope you...
A Quiet Evening of Readings, from the Poignant, through Baffling, to Scholarly 27.11.2025 52:04
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...
We visit a 12th Century Somerset Church; Rev Amos Barton buries his Wife; and we celebrate the Life of Congar 27.11.2025 35:53
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...
Anne Boleyn is Denied Marriage to Lord Percy; The Stair Where You Sit; Saint Catherine of Alexandria 26.11.2025 41:04
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...
We visit Tess of the D’Urbevilles’ village, church and baby’s ’grave’ 25.11.2025 41:10
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...
In Praise of The Rest is History and The History of England podcasts; The Blackmore Vale; and Cardinal Wolsey’s Banquet 25.11.2025 38:39
Send us Fan Mail https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/ 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...
The Dream of the Rood; Samuel Pepys’ Fury; and the mighty Columbanus 23.11.2025 38:54
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...
King Eadmund chooses Martyrdom; Hurrah for Nanny; and Wilfrid masterminds a Moment in Time at Ripon 23.11.2025 49:29
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...
Edgar Allan Poe delights; Rev Barton angers; Mrs Pepys fret; and Gretel delves too densely into medieval ecclesiastical conflict. 21.11.2025 1:02:29
Send us Fan Mail Thank you so much for your support. I’m particularly grateful to you if you subscribe. Subscribers receive a couple of packages a year and much love and appreciation from me. This podcast is a labour of love but it would be wonderful to make a little bit of income, to cover the sundries of life as I visit churches around Britain. Eventually the plan is to visit churches around...
The Almoner rises to Henry VIII’s favourite; 1663 begins; and time is stilled by Emily Dickinson 21.11.2025 39:54
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...
Cavendish begins his Life of Cardinal Wolsey; the Rev Bartons receive a surprise Guest; and John Clare takes us to the bountiful Hedgerows 19.11.2025 59:23
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...
Samuel Pepys ends 1662 contentedly; and a Scattering of Ponderings by the Meadow 19.11.2025 36:28
Send us Fan Mail Hello and good evening. 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. ...
American Civil War; Chad steals Wilfrid’s See; and Christianity as shared currency 18.11.2025 43:55
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...
St Edwold’s Church; and George Eliot’s Genius 17.11.2025 47:48
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...
Galsworthy’s Little John Sleeps at Last, with John Clare Floating Us to a Gentle Place 16.11.2025 26:23
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...
Gretel drinks from the Well of Loquaciousness in Sherborne Abbey’s Nooks and her Memories’ Military Crannies; Saint Wilfrid and Other Saints; An Anglo-Saxon Poem; and a Lithping George Eliot 15.11.2025 1:05:21
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 Galsworthy: he was filled to the brim of his soul with restlessness and the want of something - not a tree, not a gun - something soft. 15.11.2025 23:31
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...
John Galsworthy’s Awakening; The Howards; Saint Wilfrid becomes Bishop; and Clerical Fuss and Nonsense with George Eliot 13.11.2025 1:03:09
Send us Fan Mail Thank you so much for joining me dear friends and new companions. Welcome to this odd, wholly unprofessional and low-key podcast where we take each day as it comes. Enjoying literature, art, history, architecture and the natural world about us. It would be lovely if you would forward this episode to someone who you think might like some warm and gentle company. I would be so...
17th Century Marital Strife; Rev Barton’s Wife Warms his Slippers; and Shakespeare Ponders the Brave Day sunk in Hideous Night 12.11.2025 43:31
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...
To Discern and Love Sincerity of Purpose; and an Anglo-Saxon Seafarer 11.11.2025 41:51
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...
Sincerity of Purpose in Shepperton; Athelhampton; and Wilfred’s X-Factor 10.11.2025 40:03
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...
This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long. 09.11.2025 38:50
Send us Fan Mail Good evening and welcome to today’s second episode. How are you? What are you up to? Are you filled with peace and contentment, or with awful negative thoughts like shame and guilt. We plague ourselves with such unhelpful thoughts and it’s an uncomfortable and rotten way to live. We know from others around us that everyone does and says foolish things. So we must treat oursel...
Dorset Churches; Remembrance Bells; and Sherborne School 09.11.2025 44:52
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 happy marriage in the Pepys household; The Seafarer; and Saint Willibrord 07.11.2025 47:03
Send us Fan Mail Thank you so much for joining me. Do tell me about yourself and feel free to give me feedback. I hope you are well and that you feel safe, happy and well. Love Gretel 😊 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...
The Swollen Moon; Templecombe Church; and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 06.11.2025 53:34
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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