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We go in on a little Pilgrimage to the Holy Well in Cerne Abbas. Come and touch the waters created [one understands 😬] by the Staff of St Augustine

Season 3 Episode 96

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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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Saint Olaf becomes Sain Tooley Street; Bells ring out for Tuesday practice; and Cuthbert prays in the Suffolk sea

Season 3 Episode 95

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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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Lynmouth and the 1952 Great Flood Disaster; Saint Christopher; and a passage from The Woodlanders

Season 3 Episode 94

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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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Medieval Cerne Abbas; A Merry Trio of Trollope, Bede & Pepys; and infiltration by Rooks, Gulls & Mozart 🤓

Season 3 Episode 93

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Good evening.  Thank you so much for joining me this Sunday evening. How are you?  

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Good Aelfric teaches at Cerne Abbas and a worldly son coverts episcopal power in Trollope’s Barchester

Season 3 Episode 92

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Cuthbert, Pepys and the beginnings of Cerne’s Abbey

Season 3 Episode 91

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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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We dwell for a moment with heart-sore Giles Winterborne in Hardy’s The Woodlanders; We Spy a Roaming Hedgehog; and Celebrate the life of Bridget of Sweden

Season 3 Episode 90

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Good evening and thank you so much for joining me.  We gently peruse tonight the usual random clutch of literary treasures, and are joined not only by the usual suspects (Mr Katt, gulls…

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Hardy’s Woodlanders are out of sorts; Pepys’ life blossoms; and Swifts and Gulls whirl about Gretel’s garden

Season 3 Episode 89

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Thank you so much for joining me. I’ve had a lovely message from one of my wonderful subscribers that I’ve asked permission to share here:Hi Gretel, I really enjoyed today’s (Tuesday) e…

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Boisil welcomes the boy Cuthbert; What’s the Point? And George Eliot ponders the delights of Cream, straight from the Udder

Season 3 Episode 88

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Good afternoon and all my very best wishes to you on this Tuesday towards the end of July 2025.  How can it be?  When I received my Regular Commission on passing out from Sandhurst in 1…

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George Eliot’s Scenes of Clerical Life; Pepys learns that Britain is part of the European continent; and stubborn Cuthbert finds food

Season 3 Episode 87

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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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