Podcast Episodes

A day of bustle in festive Londres with Fabritius, the Christmas Tree and David Tennant

Season 1 Episode 66

Send us a text

Good evening fine folk and friends.  What a day!  An afternoon in the National Gallery, the Christmas Tree of Trafalgar Square and the incredible David Tennant in the Macbeth of all Mac…

Published on 1 year ago

Rowdy London, Serene Leanda de Lisle and a 12th Century Church

Season 1 Episode 65

Send us a text

Good afternoon!  It is dark in London though only 4pm.  Today’s podcast takes you from the noisy tractor-tooting streets of Westminster, to a 12th century church of serene beauty contai…

Published on 1 year ago

Gretel takes you to a river and inside an Abbey for some quiet ponderings. 🎄😀

Season 1 Episode 64

Send us a text

Hello and good afternoon! Thank you so much for joining me and for the two kind ladies who have subscribed to this podcast.  I don’t do any sort of ‘extras’ but if subscribers send me t…

Published on 1 year ago

Old and New Sherborne Castles

Season 1 Episode 63

Send us a text

Support the show

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…

Published on 1 year ago

Thomas Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree on Christmas morning; and King Edwin receives a holy visitor.

Season 1 Episode 62

Send us a text

Good evening this short winter’s day.  A time for hunkering down, music, candles and cosy family time.  🤗🎄

Support the show

Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities i…

Published on 1 year ago

Sherborne, Betjeman and Bede. Welcome!

Season 1 Episode 61

Send us a text

Hello and good evening from a WINDY Dorset. 🤓🎄🔔

Support the show

Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time. She shares with you snippets fro…

Published on 1 year ago

A Graveyard, an Apology, Pepys and a Wily Pope

Season 1 Episode 60

Send us a text

Good evening and welcome to my podcast of ponderings as we try to walk the path of gentleness, kindness and curiosity.  I hope you are well as we creep towards the darkest part of the y…

Published on 1 year ago

Fifth day in December, by a Dorset river and listening to the extraordinary words of Pope Boniface to a long-dead British king ✨

Season 1 Episode 59

Send us a text

Hello!  Please join me as I play you the sounds of the River Yeo and read the most extraordinary letter from Pope Boniface to King Edwin.  

Support the show

Gretel le Maître likes to look…

Published on 1 year ago

Thomas Hardy and Pepys join Bede for todays episode with peaceful Gretel

Season 1 Episode 58

Send us a text

Hello!

Welcome to today’s optimistic and peaceful edition of Podponderings with Gretel.  I read a Christmassy passage from Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree; read from Pepy’s diary from 4…

Published on 1 year ago

Come inside an old Bishops Caundle Church 🤓

Season 1 Episode 57

Send us a text

Support the show

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…

Published on 1 year ago