Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests

Gretel le Maître

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 71,000 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 warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review 🤗 Previous guests include: historian Tom Holland (who has kindly agreed to be the podcast’s Honorary Patron); Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.   Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland again, John Simpson, Kevin Stroud, Philippa Langley again, Clair Crawford, David Crowther, Philip Mould again, David Willem again, Aidan Ridyard and Katie Channon

  1. 3h ago

    Agony from Mrs Gaskell; Astonishment for Lucy Snow; and Joy from William Shakespeare

    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 71,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast.  Thank you Tom🙏  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 warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review and possibly 5 stars (for effort as I realise it’s not deserved for achievement)🥴 Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.   Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland again, John Simpson, Kevin Stroud, Philippa Langley again, David Crowther, ...

    Agony from Mrs Gaskell; Astonishment for Lucy Snow; and Joy from William Shakespeare
  2. 1d ago

    Books on Monday: Lord Durham in Canada; Pepys in Grief; Lord Byron in Prayer; and Mellitus in Kent

    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 71,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast.  Thank you Tom🙏  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 warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review and possibly 5 stars (for effort as I realise it’s not deserved for achievement)🥴 Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.   Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland again, John Simpson, Kevin Stroud, Philippa Langley again, David Crowther, ...

    Books on Monday: Lord Durham in Canada; Pepys in Grief; Lord Byron in Prayer; and Mellitus in Kent
  3. 1d ago

    Villette: Chapter XXXIX; and a Red Kite sings

    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 71,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast.  Thank you Tom🙏  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 warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review and possibly 5 stars (for effort as I realise it’s not deserved for achievement)🥴 Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.   Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland again, John Simpson, Kevin Stroud, Philippa Langley again, David Crowther, ...

    Villette: Chapter XXXIX; and a Red Kite sings
  4. 3d ago

    Nicola Cornick, brilliant and joyful historical novelist, meets Gretel at Sutton Courtenay Abbey

    Send us Fan Mail Today I spent the afternoon at Sutton Courtenay Abbey with the delightful, thoughtful and brilliant author Nicola Cornick.  We chatted over pots of tea in the pub, walked around the Abbey together, pondering its past life, and wittered some more on a bench in the old part of the Abbey Gardens.  I hope you enjoy getting to know her as I did.  A truly wonderful afternoon of a meeting of hearts and minds.  🤓 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 71,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast.  Thank you Tom🙏  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 warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review and possibly 5 stars (for effort as I realise it’s not deserved for achievement)🥴 Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.   Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland again, John Simpson, Kevin Stroud, Philippa Langley again, David Crowther, ...

    Nicola Cornick, brilliant and joyful historical novelist, meets Gretel at Sutton Courtenay Abbey
  5. 3d ago

    Somewhat Shambolic Effort from Sutton Courtenay; and from Obadiah Slope

    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 71,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast.  Thank you Tom🙏  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 warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review and possibly 5 stars (for effort as I realise it’s not deserved for achievement)🥴 Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.   Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland again, John Simpson, Kevin Stroud, Philippa Langley again, David Crowther, ...

    Somewhat Shambolic Effort from Sutton Courtenay; and from Obadiah Slope
  6. 6d ago

    Chiffchaff in a Churchyard; Wednesday Witterings; and C. Brontë’s Villette

    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 71,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast.  Thank you Tom🙏  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 warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review and possibly 5 stars (for effort as I realise it’s not deserved for achievement)🥴 Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.   Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland again, John Simpson, Kevin Stroud, Philippa Langley again, David Crowther, ...

    Chiffchaff in a Churchyard; Wednesday Witterings; and C. Brontë’s Villette
  7. Jul 27

    Young Canada, Villette, Eadwine, and Pepys

    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 71,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast.  Thank you Tom🙏  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 warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review and possibly 5 stars (for effort as I realise it’s not deserved for achievement)🥴 Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.   Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland again, John Simpson, Kevin Stroud, Philippa Langley again, David Crowther, ...

    Young Canada, Villette, Eadwine, and Pepys
  8. Jul 25

    Charlotte Brontë’s Villette: Chapter XXXVI ‘The Apple of Discord’

    Send us Fan Mail Good evening and welcome to today’s second episode, where we continue with Charlotte Brontë’s Villette.  A chapter that mulls the differences been Protestant and Roman Catholic faiths.  I imagine Charlotte Brontë sometimes closing her eyes and writing straight from heightened or deepened feelings, where the plot is irrelevant: her pen creates a room or space full of contrasting thoughts, emotions, images and even sights and sounds.  Plants are watered, canine ears are silky, we smell Catholic incense and hear the noise from a religious procession: all taking place in the mind and intense memories of Lucy Snowe, with some quiet and wholly unpredictable movements in plot and pace.  We finish the chapter thinking what?  For me, that in hearing from such an intelligent and perceptive, sensitive woman living in a different world and time, we are privileged and - in my case - my heart swells with gladness at that privilege and fervent admiration for her mind.   I wish you all a peaceful night and look forward to catching up with upi soon.   We are edging towards a full 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, cathedrals and architecture.  We’ve reached 71,000 downloads.  Thank you!!  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast.  Thank you Tom🙏  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 warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review and possibly 5 stars (for effort as I realise it’s not deserved for achievement)🥴 Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.   Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland again, John Simpson, Kevin Stroud, Philippa Langley again, David Crowther, ...

    Charlotte Brontë’s Villette: Chapter XXXVI ‘The Apple of Discord’
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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 71,000 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 warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review 🤗 Previous guests include: historian Tom Holland (who has kindly agreed to be the podcast’s Honorary Patron); Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.   Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland again, John Simpson, Kevin Stroud, Philippa Langley again, Clair Crawford, David Crowther, Philip Mould again, David Willem again, Aidan Ridyard and Katie Channon

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