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Bonus Episode: Chatterings with Daughter on the United States; Garden Ponderings; and Barchester Towers

Season 4 Episode 77

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Good evening fair friends and any newcomers, welcome.  There is no Dickens in this episode, so those wanting to tune in to the next e…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Maundy Thursday Literary Litany: Fuller’s History; Sage Saints; Dicken’s America and Rudge; and Pepys’ Progress

Season 4 Episode 76

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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…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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A Happy Scamper ‘Round Sherborne Museum; Barnaby Rudge; and a Saxon Wanderer

Season 4 Episode 75

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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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Barnaby Rudge; Thomas Hardy; 19th Century Halifax NS; and Nonsense from Gretel in Sunshiney England 🌞

Season 4 Episode 74

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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…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Strictly Dickens: Chapters LXX and LXXI

Season 4 Episode 73

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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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Thomas Hardy in Grief; Mr Slope’s Slippery Sermon; and Naked Wanderings in Wales

Season 4 Episode 72

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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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Poor Barnaby Rudge misses his dogs in Chapter LXIX; the horrors of late-night travel; and a return to Sherborne

Season 4 Episode 71

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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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Philippa Langley chats to Gretel about her Life, King Richard and Following the Evidence

Season 4 Episode 70

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Good evening and welcome to this special episode where I meet the wonderful, intrepid and extraordinary Philippa Langley MBE.  Philip…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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An Expensive Goat and no Winter Coat; Dario talks Whisky; Barnaby Rudge comes to Edinburgh [Ch LXVIII]

Season 4 Episode 69

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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…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: Strictly Dickens

Season 4 Episode 68

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This second episode includes only Chapter LXVII of Barnaby Rudge.  Is the tide turning?  Is a glimmer of light challengi…

4 months ago

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