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Tuesday with Dunstan, Aldhelm and Bede

Episode 36

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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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St Augustine asks his boss awkward questions about women, sex and menstruation

Episode 35

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You’ve got to admire St Augustine for his frank questions!  Are you ready to get baffled by Wulfys? Tonight’s episode is just for the stout-hearted.

Tomorrow I’m going to take you into a…

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Remembrance; Bedlam Hospital and Bede.

Season 1 Episode 34

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(I apologise for a few moments of stumbling words today.  I’m a little under the weather. ) Today I would be delighted if you would join me as I take you inside Sherborne Abbey as it pr…

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Shelley, Sherborne, Scriptoriums and St Augustine 🍂

Season 1 Episode 33

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Oh wild west wind!  Do join me this evening for a few words from Shelley, some nuggets of information about Northumbrian scriptoriums, an update on Sherborne Abbey’s origins, and St Aug…

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Overcoming dread, old Wessex and St Augustine give us a gentle time to pause

Season 1 Episode 32

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Good evening and thank you for joining me this Friday evening.

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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 y…

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Gretel takes you inside a very old church in the Somerset Hills before our progress with St Augustine

Season 1 Episode 31

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Hello! Please join me as we go inside St Nicholas church of Bratton Seymour, Somerset.  

 Then we listen to Bede telling of St Augustine’s questions for the Pope.   An incredible glimpse…

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Join me for a gentle twenty minutes of historical readings and a few ponderings.

Season 1 Episode 30

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Art galleries, the origin of Sherborne, teetolling and Bede are gentle pondered this evening.  I would be so delighted if you would join me. But please note the unattractive word ‘anus’…

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A wearisome day, put to bed with our usual peaceful readings.

Episode 29

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It was for days like these that I decided to put distance between emotional strain and my head resting on the pillow by reading aloud from books.  Books, poems, art, music, these things…

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Cosy candle-lit readings and ponderings on a Monday afternoon 🤓

Season 1 Episode 28

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Hello and please join me as I sit in candlelight on a grey Monday and bring a little bit of cosiness to your lives as we ponder parenting, mull over apses and catch up with our venerabl…

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A drizzle, damp Sunday, with seagulls, history books and the wind for company

Season 1 Episode 27

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Hello friends in America and countries other than my home turf.  How much of an honour to be listened to across the other side of the earth.  

Thank you for your kind comments.  It would…

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