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River sounds; Crying a river; Poorly Doggo and Marvellous Alfred. 25 Mar 202500:20:07

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Come to Thomas Hardy’s land of birth, passing a Roman Road; and then let’s hear of a double murder24 Mar 202500:20:00

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Today’s photograph is Hardy’s house of birth and childhood. Set in glorious woods and heath.

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A Few Quiet Readings. 15 Mar 202500:11:14

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Achingly beautiful words by Walter Scott from 180618 Dec 202400:10:59

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Dear kind folk.  I awoke to hear of my mother taking a poorly turn so I dashed to London, sans Bede and sans (😬) change of clothes..  BUT Sir Walter Scott sidled up to me and whispered again a poem of hillocks, trees, leaves and glen.  So stop with me a while, and hear his words, and rest your guile.

Thank you for joining me 🌷

ERROR: I say he wrote Marmion December 1806 but it was November.  Apologies.

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Tuesday gratitude and the death of poor Edwin17 Dec 202400:15:26

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Hello friends and thank you for joining me for this episode where I mull family relationships and take us through to the end of the second book of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History.  Bravo if you’ve kept up so far.  😄

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Monday magic Moon and a reading by the Abbey16 Dec 202400:12:34

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Hello dear friends and welcome to my Monday podcast, read by the Abbey under a huge beautiful moon.  Good wishes to you all.  

🌒🎄🤗

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Completing Charles II Coronation Day and Bede15 Dec 202400:17:49

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Organ Music, Tears, A Coronation and a Clever Pope14 Dec 202400:19:52

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Hallo and thank you so much for joining me this chilly day in December. 

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We march onwards with Bede13 Dec 202400:13:32

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A day of bustle in festive Londres with Fabritius, the Christmas Tree and David Tennant12 Dec 202400:18:06

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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 Macbeths.  Bede is fast asleep in my suitcase and wouldn’t be disturbed this evening.   He’ll be waking me up for Matins ‘ere long.

Goodnight 🎭🤗

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Rowdy London, Serene Leanda de Lisle and a 12th Century Church11 Dec 202400:16:24

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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 containing the remains of poor Walter Raleigh.  Do join me on today’s journey.  

With huge thanks to my third subscriber: do let me know if you would like to be mentioned by name.

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Gretel takes you to a river and inside an Abbey for some quiet ponderings. 🎄😀10 Dec 202400:15:05

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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 their name and address I will send a card of thank you.

Today I shout at my dog - oh dear! - and take you inside my favourite abbey to overhear some children’s voices singing Christmas carols.  Wishing you a happy afternoon 🎄🤗

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Old and New Sherborne Castles09 Dec 202400:11:26

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Ponderings on the some of the consequences of the Norman Conquest; and Bede tells of yet another miracle 14 Mar 202500:20:17

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Thomas Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree on Christmas morning; and King Edwin receives a holy visitor. 08 Dec 202400:23:00

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

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Sherborne, Betjeman and Bede. Welcome! 07 Dec 202400:13:33

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

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A Graveyard, an Apology, Pepys and a Wily Pope06 Dec 202400:18:54

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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 year in England.  Hello if you’re from another country: do introduce yourself and I will say hello to you on the podcast, or can wish you a merry Christmas.  


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Fifth day in December, by a Dorset river and listening to the extraordinary words of Pope Boniface to a long-dead British king ✨05 Dec 202400:17:32

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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.  

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Thomas Hardy and Pepys join Bede for todays episode with peaceful Gretel04 Dec 202400:21:07

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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 4th December 1660 and take us to Northumbria in Bede’s historical record.  Do leave a review or rating on your podcast platform if you have the time.  I would be so chuffed if you could 😃.  

Love Gretel xx

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Come inside an old Bishops Caundle Church 🤓03 Dec 202400:19:22

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Fear, Families from the Past, Abbey Bells and a Pallium given02 Dec 202400:23:56

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Good evening and welcome to my quiet podcast about walking a path towards unwanted yet unavoidable loss.  Thank you for being my companion and I, in turn, am yours.  

With all best wishes for this second day of December.  

🙋‍♀️🤗🔔

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Winter and Advent Cometh 😊🔔01 Dec 202400:11:29

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Must be Santa, Advent Eve, Cnut and Mellitus. 🔔 30 Nov 202400:20:27

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Hello, good evening and welcome to the 54th podcast.  There has been one a day since October 8th and I would love to hear from you if you’ve listened to every episode.  If you submit a review and DM your address I will pop a Christmas card in the post and will include a fun fact from history or marvellous quote from Shakespeare.  

I wish you all a peaceful Advent Eve and thank you so much for your support for this little endeavour.  Very warm wishes, Grete. 🌷

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The Darkling Thrush, the Nightingale and the death of Aethelberht29 Nov 202400:17:36

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Welcome.  This is a podcast for the curious, the knowledge-collector and the peace-seeker.  Thank you for joining me on this path.  The way may be tricky at times but we will never gaze at our feet for long.  For there are trees and birds to our left and right; books to read while we rest and above us, the skies.  There is always a song to hum and companionship to be found.  

We need never tackle more than this day we are in.  🤓

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Churchill tells of early Celtic Christianity; and we progress with Bede as Doggo dreams fitfully ☺️13 Mar 202500:22:07

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Thursday shenanigans with Gretel 🥳28 Nov 202400:11:20

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Hello do join me for a few minutes of gentle ponderings.  🌷🤗

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Gentle midweek pondering by river and readings in the darkening garden. 27 Nov 202400:19:55

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I wish you all a peaceful evening. The air is cold and still in the south west of England and Advent is whispering its presence around the corner.  I’m coming, it murmurs, enjoying the irony of the words.  And all will be well. 

Best wishes to all, 

Grete x ☕️

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Hurrah for Home! And the return of our Venerable Bede. 26 Nov 202400:20:50

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Good evening friends.  I would be so pleased if you would join me for fifteen minutes of peaceful readings as we inch towards the Christmas Season.  Thank you for helping me get to a half-century.  🥳

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Monday dash to London, leaving Bede in Dorset. Germany’s history to the rescue 🇩🇪 25 Nov 202400:20:28

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Good evening.

Thank you so much for joining me this evening as I walk this path into the unknown.   Like life itself, it’s a pilgrim’s progress for us all.   The doldrums are unavoidable but The Bear Hunt 🐻 sets out how to get to the other side: you can’t get over it; you can’t go round it; so put on those wellies and let’s go through it - together.  Hand in hand.  

Good night folks 🤗🙋‍♀️

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Thomas Hardy, John Clare and a stormy Sunday; while Augustine bullies the Britons24 Nov 202400:14:18

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A peaceful Sunday to all on this rather wild corner of SouthWest England.


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A windy walk to Sherborne Abbey, a look inside, and a famous passage from Bede’s history.23 Nov 202400:19:42

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Good afternoon.  I would be delighted if you would join me as I walk in the hooley to Sherborne’s Abbey.  The wind is far too loud so a bit of fast-forwarding might be necessary.  I take you inside the Abbey to visit the bones of former Wessex kings.  And then we read Bede’s famous telling of the story of ‘Angli’ slaves in Rome.  

Apologies again for the sound at one point and thank you if you stayed to the end 🤓

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Pope Gregory dies and we look back on his life.22 Nov 202400:10:49

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Good evening.  Do join me as we read Bede’s words about the life of Pope Gregory.  

Wishing a restful Friday to all.  


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Thomas of Canterbury on a snowy Thursday, and a new book in Bede’s histories21 Nov 202400:14:01

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Good afternoon and forgive the cheeky frog in my throat as I read more from TS Eliot and Bede.

We awoke to snow in Dorset today, much to the delight of dog and horror of cat.  

Wishing you all a restful Thursday on this beautiful planet.

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Having courage of mind, English hedges, and our Venerable companion closes Book 1. 20 Nov 202400:19:57

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Good morning.  I would be so delighted if you would join me for a quarter of an hour in my garden in the south west corner of the British Isles, where neither motorway nor city be there (true fact about Dorset!). 

Today I encourage us all to have the courage of our own minds; we look at English hedges and we bring to a close Bede’s first book.  There are five in total, so we are a fifth of a way through his epic history.  Bravo if you’ve stayed with me thus far.  

I’d be so grateful if some kind person could feedback as to whether my garden is too noisy a spot.  I only hear the birds but there is a nearby road, alas.  🙋‍♀️🌳

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Dissonance, the marvellous Weekend Book and Pope Gregory charms King Aethelberht 🌳19 Nov 202400:27:20

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Leaning into the wind, with a few new books at my elbow; and Bede’s Fifth Book begun on Farne Island. 12 Mar 202500:21:04

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The greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason18 Nov 202400:15:22

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Good Monday afternoon and welcome to a rainy dog walk and a letter of chastisement from Pope Gregory to Augustine, proud of his miracles. 

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Sunday ponderings about Hampstead Heath, Byron and Pope Gregory's pragmatic view on pagan shrines17 Nov 202400:17:02

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Please join me on my garden bench for some gentle readings.  Yet I’ll go no more a-roving, by the light of the moon 🌓🙋‍♀️

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A Bleak Saturday dash to London16 Nov 202400:14:00

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Dear friends, life can be so tough.  Routine can help in dark times and so the routine of daily readings, whether Bede or Tintin, especially out-loud, is something to hold on to.  Little life-jackets, are these simple tools, to get us through dark patches.  Counting blessings, too, is another life-jacket to turn to.  Nothing can fix but lots and lots of things can comfort and soothe. 

Thank you for joining me and best wishes to you.  🤗

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Country soundscapes, church crawling and Bede 15 Nov 202400:15:55

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Join me as I visit a few spots in Dorset, then a small church in Somerset before finishing with Gregory’s letter to the Bishop of Arles in Bede. 🤗

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Saxon Churches and Bede on a Thursday evening 14 Nov 202400:11:06

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Malmesbury ahoy! And Bede discusses the sin of night-time ‘illusions’. 13 Nov 202400:23:35

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Welcome! I have taken you to the ancient hilltop town of Malmesbury, Wiltshire.  Please check out the photographs on platforms X or BlueSky by searching for Gretel le Maitre or @leshuguenots.  

Thank you for joining me 🤗

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Tuesday with Dunstan, Aldhelm and Bede12 Nov 202400:23:22

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St Augustine asks his boss awkward questions about women, sex and menstruation 11 Nov 202400:21:38

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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 deep, dark wood..  as the moon waxes and winter draws near.  Alone with the leaves, the graves and the bats 🦇 .

Please do leave comments on what you would like more or less of.  

Thank you for keeping me company on this journey.  🤓🙋‍♀️

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Remembrance; Bedlam Hospital and Bede.10 Nov 202400:16:31

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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 prepares for the Service of Remembrance.  Followed by Victorian enlightenment in Bedlam Hospital and closing with more wisdom
 from Pope Gregory, with an instruction to separate the wheat from the chaff.  🙋‍♀️

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Shelley, Sherborne, Scriptoriums and St Augustine 🍂09 Nov 202400:17:05

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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 Augustine’s next questions to Pope Gregory.  Can one lie with one’s stepmother?

A peaceful Saturday to all and thank you for honouring me with your ears 🤗🙋‍♀️🍂

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Winchester Cathedral offers balm to the soul after holding my mother’s hand for the last time. 11 Mar 202500:09:30

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Overcoming dread, old Wessex and St Augustine give us a gentle time to pause08 Nov 202400:19:42

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

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Gretel takes you inside a very old church in the Somerset Hills before our progress with St Augustine 07 Nov 202400:18:10

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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 into the mind of a long-dead man of huge historical importance.


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Join me for a gentle twenty minutes of historical readings and a few ponderings. 06 Nov 202400:24:42

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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’ makes an unwelcome appearance. Episode 30 today.  I’m very grateful for your company on this walk into the unknown.. 

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