Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests

Send us Fan Mail Thank you for joining me dear friends and newcomers.  Onwards we walk, gently and with love, one day at a time.  Curiosity about the world and its history and its wonders, is the watchword.   Today we read George Eliot  and and Old English poem The Wanderer.  Mr Katt makes a star appearance 🤭 Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life,...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and thank you so much for joining me this evening.   It’s an honour to have your company 🤗🥳🍂 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 archite...

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 Hello and thank you so much for joining me this balmy October Thursday.  There will be two episodes today: in this one we go church exploring; the second one we will catch up with the literature.   I hope you are well and coping with all life’s challenges.  Thank you for your lovely emails.  😊 Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life,...

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 and a very good morning from Buckfast Abbey.  Today we finish Three Men in a Boat and I wend my way back to Dorset, where the cat and dog will need their usual post-separation reassurance.  The sun is shining here and I hope it is for you too.   Thank you for joining me.  😀🌳🍂 Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day a...

Send us Fan Mail Good evening.  This is the first of two episodes, and this one ends without so much as a goodbye, for which I apologise.  Come with me to Devonshire where we rest at a place of peace and tranquility.   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 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 is a little interlude, reading a chapter from Eleanor Parker’s lovely book ‘Winters in the World’, about the Anglo-Saxon year.  This is the chapter about the difficult-to-grasp season of Autumn 🍂  I hope you are well! 🤗🍂🦔 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 fr...

Send us Fan Mail Hello, this is another recording that I couldn’t work out how to add to, but rather than delete it, here it is.  I arrive at the beautiful driveway to Kelvedon Hall, where nuthatches, buzzards and coots abound.  😊 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 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.  Today Jerome K Jerome’s gentlemen (et chien) visit The George and Dragon at Wargrave and The Bull Inn at Sonning.  Both pubs are still open and thriving and I’ve popped photographs onto social media.  Isn’t it every English person’s dream to walk, row, cycle or chug along the Thames from source to tide?   I’m heading to Kelvedon Hall today because I’m deeply interes...

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 Thank you for joining me today.  I am optimistic about the week ahead and I hope you are too.  The cloud has finally shifted here in England and that makes an awful lot of difference.   I’ll try to give a 🦔update soon.  I’m putting food out for them every night and it completely disappears!  😄 Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life...

Send us Fan Mail A poem by Henry Noel (Elizabethan    Courtier) Gaze not on Swans Gaze not on swans in whose soft breast A full hatcht beauty seems to nest, Nor snow which falling from the sky, Hovers in its virginity. Gaze not on roses though new blown Grac’d with a fresh complexion, Nor lilly which no subtle bee Hath rob'd by kissing chemistry. Gaze not on that pure milky way Where night vi...

Send us Fan Mail Hello, I was unable to add to this episode, sadly, so in despair I’ll publish it as a mini-episode, like a tapas plate.   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 adventures to new locations, t...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and thank you so much for joining me.  I hope you are well! I look forward to taking you to some Exmoor churches over the next few days. Thank you for your support and kind emails. Gretel 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 from books about history, art and literature and r...

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 a very warm wishes to you this darkening Friday evening.  Thank you for your support despite episodes that fail in part; such is the consequence of a daily podcast which means it’s more of a ‘blurt’ or ‘stream of consciousness’ with the aid of little-reconnoitred material.  At some point do I move to one or two episodes a week, with each episode professionally pre...