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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 snipp…
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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 j…
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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 …
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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 R…
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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 snipp…
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The Preservation of Churches; A visit to South Cadbury’s Parish Church; and St Cuthbert watches Aidan’s soul rise to Heaven
Season 3 Episode 86
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My apologies, the church of South Cadbury is St Thomas À Beckett, not John the Baptist as I stated in my narrative. 🧐🫢
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The Life of Cuthbert
Season 3 Episode 85
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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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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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