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A Daughter in Les Misérables; A Full Super Moon; and Under the Greenwood Tree forces Gretel into song

Season 3 Episode 222

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Hello and thank you so much for joining me.  It is an honour to have your company and I’m very grateful.  Stick around if you can - dip in and out and know that I’m here to give you a l…

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A Bunion is Given Consideration by Mellstock’s Shoemaker

Season 3 Episode 221

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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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Sir Simon Jenkins, talks of his twin passions for politics and architecture; and Gretel lets herself and all Dorset folk down on day two of Under the Greenwood Tree

Season 3 Episode 220

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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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‘To Dwellers in a Wood almost every Species of Tree has its Voice as well as its Feature’

Season 3 Episode 219

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Dear old friends and new friends.  Happy December the first.  The opening of Advent and the beginning of winter.  

How are you?  Are you fearing the month ahead? Daunted? Overwhelmed? Ex…

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Picts Gathering Like Swarms of Ants 🐜; Norman English Architecture; a Tidbit of Thomas Hardy; and France Woos Wolsey

Season 3 Episode 218

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Thank you so much for joining me on Advent Sunday.  This is such a special, beautiful time of year.   I hope you are well and able to keep out the noise, and stay rooted to that peace t…

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Pepys Leaps his Garden Fence; Mr Oldinport Squeezes his Tenants; and a Mother’s Dead Hand

Season 3 Episode 217

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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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Meet Grimy and Dirty Dame Fripp; and Watch as Splendid Cardinal Wolsey Weeps in Canterbury

Season 3 Episode 216

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Hello and a very happy Saturday. The last weekend in November. Tomorrow is Advent Sunday and Monday is the 1st. We’re also due another full super moon next week.  The waxing gibbous loo…

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A Quiet Evening of Readings, from the Poignant, through Baffling, to Scholarly

Season 3 Episode 215

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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 visit a 12th Century Somerset Church; Rev Amos Barton buries his Wife; and we celebrate the Life of Congar

Season 3 Episode 214

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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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Anne Boleyn is Denied Marriage to Lord Percy; The Stair Where You Sit; Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Season 3 Episode 213

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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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