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Bells and Swifts; Hardy and Bede; Mozart and Pepys 😊
Season 3 Episode 84
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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 snipp…
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We visit St Michael’s Over Compton on the Dorset / Somerset Border and discover a wonderful local tradition rooted in village divisions at the time of the Civil War
Season 3 Episode 83
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I’ve just remembered that this episode begins with late night frolics with Mrs Tiggywinkle 🦔
Do bear with it if the soun…
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We join Pepys for Charles II’s Coronation, with a drunken end to the day; and enfin Bede is our guest, beginning his history of Cuthbert’s life.
Season 3 Episode 82
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Good evening, how are you today?
Thank you for joining me and dipping in to this evening’s gentle episode, set in a darkling garden. …
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A Happy Monday with England winning the Third Test; Pepys wears velvet to watch the pre-Coronation procession; and Bede is our guest once again 🤓
Season 3 Episode 81
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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 snipp…
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‘The Physiognomy of a Deserted Highway’; Inappropriate Pepys; and a Leaping Dog
Season 3 Episode 80
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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 snipp…
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We ponder English cottages and The Rule of Benedict in hot Dorset garden
Season 3 Episode 79
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Hello and welcome to today’s episode, from a hot and bee-filled garden in north Dorset. Thank you for joining me and please do pass …
9 months, 1 week ago
Grace visits Sherton (Sherborne) in Hardy’s The Woodlanders, to follow her heart; accompanied by seagulls and Mr Katt
Season 3 Episode 78
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We visit Sherborne’s 12th Century Old Castle 🏰
Season 3 Episode 77
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The English Village and the Sherborne Conduit
Season 3 Episode 76
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Kent becomes Christian once more; Choral Music soothes; and Pepys judges Charles II and his brother quite ordinary.
Season 3 Episode 75
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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 snipp…
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