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Salcombe Hubub; Exhausting Parenting; and Heathcliffe begs Cathy to come home

Season 3 Episode 106

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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 r…

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The Waters Lap at my Feet while Pondering the Decorated phase of Gothic Architecture; and then we are Overcome by the Wiley Windy Moors

Season 3 Episode 105

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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 r…

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The late Jon Cannon helps us to understand and diagnose the first stage of English Gothic: the Early English c.1190 - 1260

Season 3 Episode 104

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Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.

Previous guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Col…

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How the Wind Blows around the Dreaded Matter of Class; and Thomas Hardy, by an admirer in 1940

Season 3 Episode 103

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Hallo and thank you so much for joining me today.  There will be a second episode of our usual readings this evening.  

Love Gretel xx

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Sweet Cyder is a Great Thing, writes T Hardy; Pepys remarks on King Charles II Ordinary Mien; and we Learn how to Diagnose the Birth of Gothic Architecture

Season 3 Episode 102

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Good evening dear friends, old and new.  This is more of an audio-journal than a podcast, so do bear that in mind and refrain, if at all possible, from giving me a low rating, which gri…

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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Fever breaks out in London in Summer 1661; and we Ponder the Pre-Reformation English Church

Season 3 Episode 101

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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 r…

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Live at the Oval for Day 4 of the England/India Test; followed by Further Ponderings on the Cerne Giant

Season 3 Episode 100

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This is not my usual type of episode so do skip if you prefer the quiet readings.  The noisy cricket lasts for ten minutes, followed by thoughts and readings about the Cerne Giant.…

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Norman/Romanesque Architecture; Cricket and Sidwell’s Feast Day

Season 3 Episode 99

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In tonight’s episode we learn how to ‘diagnose’ Norman/Romanesque architecture, and catch up with the Saints and Mr Pepys. 

Thank you for joining me and do feel free to get in touch:  I’…

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A Pile of Books with Tea, a cat 🐈, a bat 🦇 and a hedgehog 🦔 in a Dorset Garden 📚🤓

Season 3 Episode 98

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I am so glad you have decided to join me in my Dorset garden, in the dark on this Friday evening for a celebration of books.  Our guest authors tonight are:

-Professor Alice Roberts 

-Sam…

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A stroll through an Enchanted Graveyard, where a loving Cat appeared to soothe my heart; and poor Pepys has Broken Brains

Season 3 Episode 97

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Hello dear friends and newcomers, welcome to my daily voice-note to you 🤗

Today I finish my Cerne Abbas pilgrimage with a wander around what remains of the monastery.  

At the moment, I e…

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