Gretel le Maître Ponders
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- Society & Culture · Places & Travel
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About
Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities. She shares with you passages from books about history, art and literature and regularly takes you on adventures to new locations, to explore churches, cathedrals and architecture. Gretel invites you to accompany her as she navigates the world a day at a time; the podcast is unscripted, it’s ad-free. It was started to help cope with the imminent death of her mother, and has continued after the grief sadly started in February of 2024. It was a path of solace and remains a path of solace, peace and kindnes...
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Recent episodes
- An Ancient Tradition; a Blackeyed Bagman; and Sagacious Swallows
- Chaucer’s Middle English Words and Phrases; and a Young American Tale 🇺🇸
- Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers and a dash of Pepys 📚
- A Rotten Borough in The Pickwick Papers and Revolting Romancing in Barchester Towers
- Pickwick takes us to Eatanswill; and Saint Alphege is remembered
- ‘Ancient’ Scottish Poetry; Royal Hesse Life; and Benjamin Franklin’s Candour
- Books for a Rainy Day: Pepys’ Diary, Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale, Some History of Canada & Australia, et John Clare
- Day 6 in Cornwall: Purely Pickwick
- Day 5 in Cornwall: St Gennys Church, the Dog that Digs, and the Robin Romance
- Day 4 in Cornwall: Chaucer, Trollope, Jeopardy and Mercy