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Sherborne Bells strike Twelve; Spring Birds Gladden the Heart; Churchill's Preface to his History; and Bede

Season 1 Episode 117

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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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Hallelujah for Handel; London Dining in 1915 and Catholicism blooms in England

Season 1 Episode 116

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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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Bell-ringing, AA Milne poetry and Book Four begun

Season 1 Episode 115

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Good evening.  The following salad of words show that AI has a long way to go.  AI has put together a ‘blog’ to go with this episode and I paste it here for your wry amusement 🤨😄


Have yo…

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The streets of London; listening in to Choir Practice (and weeping); A message of love to dear America 🇺🇸 and we close Book Three with Bede

Season 1 Episode 114

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Hello dear friends 

Thank you so very much for joining me for this evening’s episode, from Chelsea in London, England, where all is dark, windy and wet. But - there is (must always be) a…

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Epiphany Service at Chelsea Old Church, Finding Peace in beautiful old Buildings, and Bede

Season 1 Episode 113

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Good evening.  How are you and how has your week been?   Tonight’s episode includes earwigging a beautiful service of Epiphany at Chelsea Old Church, where Saint Thomas More and his fam…

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A London Mooch About with Bede in my Back-Pocket

Season 1 Episode 112

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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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Rural society in the 1840s; the Ubiquity of Social Division; and our dear Bede

Season 1 Episode 111

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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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Seagulls swirl over Sherborne Abbey; their Freedom contrasting with the poor condemned of Newgate Gaol. Charles Dickens at his descriptive best.

Season 1 Episode 110

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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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A Visit, by Charles Dickens, to Newgate Gaol; and Bede tells of the Goodness of the Northumbrian Clergy

Season 1 Episode 109

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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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A Gentle Zooming in on Thomas Hardy’s Under The Greenwood Tree

Season 1 Episode 108

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Hello dear friends; I’m publishing two episodes today.  This first takes you deeper into understanding Hardy’s wonderful Under The Greenwood Tree.  I have read this petite, delightful n…

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