Gretel le MaƮtre Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests
Gretel le MaĆ®tre 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. Weāve reached 62,000 downloads. Thank you!! š
Gretel invites you to accompany her as she navigates the world a day at a time; the podcast is unscripted, itās 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. Letās 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 š¤
Previous guests include:
historian Tom Holland (who has kindly agreed to be the podcastās 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
Gretel le MaƮtre Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests
Montmorency helps Pack; John Cannon helps us Diagnose the late Perpendicular; while the Sea creeps Closer š
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Good evening and thank you so much for joining me.
Thank you to my new subscriber Majorie: I really appreciate your support so very much.
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Some items for the future:
1. Conversation with art historian Philip Mould
2. Conversation with BBC journalist John Smith
3. A visit to the private quarters of Windsor Castle
4. All of Hardyās Under the Greenwood Tree, as our Book for Advent
5. More from: the Brontes, Dickens, Hardy, Sayers and other loved authors and poets
6. A visit to Kent
7. One day cricket at Lordās
8. Visits to more of Englandās main cathedrals and Abbeys
9. A conversation with Angela Tilby
10. A pilgrimage to the land of Bede, and more of his works
Gretel le MaĆ®tre 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. Weāve reached 60,000 downloads. Thank you!! š
Gretel invites you to accompany her as she navigates the world a day at a time; the podcast is unscripted, itās 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. Letās 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 itās not deserved for achievement)š„“
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, Clair Crawford, David Crowther, Philip Mould again, David Willem again, Aidan Ridyard and Katie Cha...
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