Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests
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| River sounds; Crying a river; Poorly Doggo and Marvellous Alfred. | 25 Mar 2025 | 00:20:07 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Come to Thomas Hardy’s land of birth, passing a Roman Road; and then let’s hear of a double murder | 24 Mar 2025 | 00:20:00 | |
Today’s photograph is Hardy’s house of birth and childhood. Set in glorious woods and heath. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| A Few Quiet Readings. | 15 Mar 2025 | 00:11:14 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Achingly beautiful words by Walter Scott from 1806 | 18 Dec 2024 | 00:10:59 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Tuesday gratitude and the death of poor Edwin | 17 Dec 2024 | 00:15:26 | |
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. 😄 Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Monday magic Moon and a reading by the Abbey | 16 Dec 2024 | 00:12:34 | |
Hello dear friends and welcome to my Monday podcast, read by the Abbey under a huge beautiful moon. Good wishes to you all. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Completing Charles II Coronation Day and Bede | 15 Dec 2024 | 00:17:49 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Organ Music, Tears, A Coronation and a Clever Pope | 14 Dec 2024 | 00:19:52 | |
Hallo and thank you so much for joining me this chilly day in December. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| We march onwards with Bede | 13 Dec 2024 | 00:13:32 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| A day of bustle in festive Londres with Fabritius, the Christmas Tree and David Tennant | 12 Dec 2024 | 00:18:06 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Rowdy London, Serene Leanda de Lisle and a 12th Century Church | 11 Dec 2024 | 00:16:24 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Gretel takes you to a river and inside an Abbey for some quiet ponderings. 🎄😀 | 10 Dec 2024 | 00:15:05 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Old and New Sherborne Castles | 09 Dec 2024 | 00:11:26 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Ponderings on the some of the consequences of the Norman Conquest; and Bede tells of yet another miracle | 14 Mar 2025 | 00:20:17 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Thomas Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree on Christmas morning; and King Edwin receives a holy visitor. | 08 Dec 2024 | 00:23:00 | |
Good evening this short winter’s day. A time for hunkering down, music, candles and cosy family time. 🤗🎄 Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Sherborne, Betjeman and Bede. Welcome! | 07 Dec 2024 | 00:13:33 | |
Hello and good evening from a WINDY Dorset. 🤓🎄🔔 Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| A Graveyard, an Apology, Pepys and a Wily Pope | 06 Dec 2024 | 00:18:54 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| 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 2024 | 00:17:32 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Thomas Hardy and Pepys join Bede for todays episode with peaceful Gretel | 04 Dec 2024 | 00:21:07 | |
Hello! Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Come inside an old Bishops Caundle Church 🤓 | 03 Dec 2024 | 00:19:22 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Fear, Families from the Past, Abbey Bells and a Pallium given | 02 Dec 2024 | 00:23:56 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Winter and Advent Cometh 😊🔔 | 01 Dec 2024 | 00:11:29 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Must be Santa, Advent Eve, Cnut and Mellitus. 🔔 | 30 Nov 2024 | 00:20:27 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| The Darkling Thrush, the Nightingale and the death of Aethelberht | 29 Nov 2024 | 00:17:36 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Churchill tells of early Celtic Christianity; and we progress with Bede as Doggo dreams fitfully ☺️ | 13 Mar 2025 | 00:22:07 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Thursday shenanigans with Gretel 🥳 | 28 Nov 2024 | 00:11:20 | |
Hello do join me for a few minutes of gentle ponderings. 🌷🤗 Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Gentle midweek pondering by river and readings in the darkening garden. | 27 Nov 2024 | 00:19:55 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Hurrah for Home! And the return of our Venerable Bede. | 26 Nov 2024 | 00:20:50 | |
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. 🥳 Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Monday dash to London, leaving Bede in Dorset. Germany’s history to the rescue 🇩🇪 | 25 Nov 2024 | 00:20:28 | |
Good evening. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Thomas Hardy, John Clare and a stormy Sunday; while Augustine bullies the Britons | 24 Nov 2024 | 00:14:18 | |
A peaceful Sunday to all on this rather wild corner of SouthWest England. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| A windy walk to Sherborne Abbey, a look inside, and a famous passage from Bede’s history. | 23 Nov 2024 | 00:19:42 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Pope Gregory dies and we look back on his life. | 22 Nov 2024 | 00:10:49 | |
Good evening. Do join me as we read Bede’s words about the life of Pope Gregory. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Thomas of Canterbury on a snowy Thursday, and a new book in Bede’s histories | 21 Nov 2024 | 00:14:01 | |
Good afternoon and forgive the cheeky frog in my throat as I read more from TS Eliot and Bede. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Having courage of mind, English hedges, and our Venerable companion closes Book 1. | 20 Nov 2024 | 00:19:57 | |
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!). Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Dissonance, the marvellous Weekend Book and Pope Gregory charms King Aethelberht 🌳 | 19 Nov 2024 | 00:27:20 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Leaning into the wind, with a few new books at my elbow; and Bede’s Fifth Book begun on Farne Island. | 12 Mar 2025 | 00:21:04 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| The greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason | 18 Nov 2024 | 00:15:22 | |
Good Monday afternoon and welcome to a rainy dog walk and a letter of chastisement from Pope Gregory to Augustine, proud of his miracles. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Sunday ponderings about Hampstead Heath, Byron and Pope Gregory's pragmatic view on pagan shrines | 17 Nov 2024 | 00:17:02 | |
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 🌓🙋♀️ Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| A Bleak Saturday dash to London | 16 Nov 2024 | 00:14:00 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Country soundscapes, church crawling and Bede | 15 Nov 2024 | 00:15:55 | |
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. 🤗 Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Saxon Churches and Bede on a Thursday evening | 14 Nov 2024 | 00:11:06 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Malmesbury ahoy! And Bede discusses the sin of night-time ‘illusions’. | 13 Nov 2024 | 00:23:35 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Tuesday with Dunstan, Aldhelm and Bede | 12 Nov 2024 | 00:23:22 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| St Augustine asks his boss awkward questions about women, sex and menstruation | 11 Nov 2024 | 00:21:38 | |
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. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Remembrance; Bedlam Hospital and Bede. | 10 Nov 2024 | 00:16:31 | |
(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 Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Shelley, Sherborne, Scriptoriums and St Augustine 🍂 | 09 Nov 2024 | 00:17:05 | |
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? Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Winchester Cathedral offers balm to the soul after holding my mother’s hand for the last time. | 11 Mar 2025 | 00:09:30 | |
Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Overcoming dread, old Wessex and St Augustine give us a gentle time to pause | 08 Nov 2024 | 00:19:42 | |
Good evening and thank you for joining me this Friday evening. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Gretel takes you inside a very old church in the Somerset Hills before our progress with St Augustine | 07 Nov 2024 | 00:18:10 | |
Hello! Please join me as we go inside St Nicholas church of Bratton Seymour, Somerset. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||
| Join me for a gentle twenty minutes of historical readings and a few ponderings. | 06 Nov 2024 | 00:24:42 | |
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.. Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes. Guests include historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests. Your daily dose of calm. Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company. Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature. Please don’t expect to find a polished product. The output is lower tier but the authenticity is hopefully as good as it gets. 🦔 34,000 All-time Downloads since October 2024 🥳 Love Gretel 🌝 | |||