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Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests

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 regularly takes you on…

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Latest episodes

  1. Strictly Books: Haworth ‘Arvills; Young Christianity in Britain; Pepys; & Trollope15 Aug 2026
  2. Drama in Barchester Towers; and we revisit St Nicholas Church in Bratton St Maur14 Aug 2026
  3. Pepys, Poetry, Chronicle and Courage13 Aug 2026
  4. Villette, by Charlotte Brontë, says its Adieu11 Aug 2026
  5. The Life of Bede; Tuesday Bells; Dear Mr Pepys; and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle11 Aug 2026
  6. A Flying visit to Bury St Edmunds; and Chapter XL of Villette, Charlotte Brontë.9 Aug 2026
  7. Wide mouthed-Hate-dents, Yorkshire and Barchester Folk, Pepys, E Thomas and A Marvell8 Aug 2026
  8. ‘To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage’ - Villette6 Aug 2026
  9. Agony from Mrs Gaskell; Astonishment for Lucy Snow; and Joy from William Shakespeare4 Aug 2026
  10. Books on Monday: Lord Durham in Canada; Pepys in Grief; Lord Byron in Prayer; and Mellitus in Kent3 Aug 2026