An Unfortunate Bishop’s But(t) as Gretel sinks into A Month in the Country

Season 3 Episode 154

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Montmorency Retreats from The Cat; Pepys is Revolted by a Floating Corpse; and Elgar ends our Ponder 🌝

Season 3 Episode 153

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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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Montmorency does not like Cats 🐈‍⬛; The Knave of Knaresborough; and Exmoor is depicted to Perfection

Season 3 Episode 152

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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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The Joys of Marlow; the History of Cleeve Abbey; and JL Carr’s moving portrayal of a Dying Girl

Season 3 Episode 151

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Previous guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Col…

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The Wind is finally in the Boat’s Favour; A meandering Ponder in the Garden; and we celebrate Maurice and Matthew

Season 3 Episode 150

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Thank you for joining me today.  I am optimistic about the week ahead and I hope you are too.  The cloud has finally shifted here in England and that makes an awful lot of difference.  …

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Pavarotti, the Pearl Fishers and A Month in the County excavates one’s own heart

Season 3 Episode 149

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How are you this blustery autumn day?  There are so many forms of art that help peel off the scrub around one’s heart, apply a balm, then gently recoat with a protective layer.  Unless …

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Pepys Sings Gaze Not Upon Swans 🦢; Three Men and Their Boat; and we ponder the ancient Washing of Feet and Hands 🙌🏻

Season 3 Episode 148

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A poem by Henry Noel (Elizabethan   

Courtier)

Gaze not on Swans

Gaze not on swans in whose soft breast
A full hatcht beauty seems to nest,
Nor snow which falling from the sky,
Hovers in its …

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A Cut-short mini episode with Mr Katt and a Delightful lady in Dunster Museum

Season 3 Episode 147

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Hello, I was unable to add to this episode, sadly, so in despair I’ll publish it as a mini-episode, like a tapas plate.  

Love Gretel 🦔🤗🙋‍♀️

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Pomp & Circumstance; From Trenches to Moon’s Dug-out; and Romeo & Juliet’s terrible First Performance

Season 3 Episode 146

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Hello and thank you so much for joining me.  I hope you are well!

I look forward to taking you to some Exmoor churches over the next few days.

Thank you for your support and kind emails.

G…

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Finale of Butler’s Mystery of Becket’s Bones; and we meet Kind and Delightful Moon in JL Carr’s Sensitive Masterpiece

Season 3 Episode 145

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