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Galsworthy’s Little John Sleeps at Last, with John Clare Floating Us to a Gentle Place

Season 3 Episode 202

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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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Gretel drinks from the Well of Loquaciousness in Sherborne Abbey’s Nooks and her Memories’ Military Crannies; Saint Wilfrid and Other Saints; An Anglo-Saxon Poem; and a Lithping George Eliot

Season 3 Episode 201

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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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John Galsworthy: he was filled to the brim of his soul with restlessness and the want of something - not a tree, not a gun - something soft.

Season 3 Episode 200

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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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John Galsworthy’s Awakening; The Howards; Saint Wilfrid becomes Bishop; and Clerical Fuss and Nonsense with George Eliot

Season 3 Episode 199

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Thank you so much for joining me dear friends and new companions.  Welcome to this odd, wholly unprofessional and low-key podcast where we take each day as it comes.  Enjoying literatur…

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17th Century Marital Strife; Rev Barton’s Wife Warms his Slippers; and Shakespeare Ponders the Brave Day sunk in Hideous Night

Season 3 Episode 198

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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 Discern and Love Sincerity of Purpose; and an Anglo-Saxon Seafarer

Season 3 Episode 197

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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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Sincerity of Purpose in Shepperton; Athelhampton; and Wilfred’s X-Factor

Season 3 Episode 196

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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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This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,  To love that well which thou must leave ere long.

Season 3 Episode 195

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Good evening and welcome to today’s second episode.  How are you? What are you up to?  Are you filled with peace and contentment, or with awful negative thoughts like shame and guilt.  …

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Dorset Churches; Remembrance Bells; and Sherborne School

Season 3 Episode 194

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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 happy marriage in the Pepys household; The Seafarer; and Saint Willibrord

Season 3 Episode 193

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Thank you so much for joining me.  Do tell me about yourself and feel free to give me feedback. 

I hope you are well and that you feel safe, happy and well.  

Love Gretel 😊

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