Brendan the Navigator, Carantoc, Peregrine of Auxerre and Simon Stock; meanwhile Churchill discusses pre-Restoration power-play; and dear Pepys’ wench takes abed

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Good evening and thank you so much for joining me.  I’m a little under par this evening and low after receiving a low Apple Podcasts rating.  If you enjoy what I do even a little I would be so very grateful if you would give me a nice rating.  There are lots of places you can go to it: Podcast, Apple, Buzzsprout, Podchaser, GoodPods, Acast, Spotify, so many more.  Also I really would like to know more about you.  I have a lovely handful of listeners who I engage with, but many others I know nothing about.  So do say hello.  Feel free to send an email to [email protected].  I know I have regular listeners from South Africa 🇿🇦, Germany 🇩🇪, Luxembourg 🇱🇺, Australia 🇦🇺, Slovakia 🇸🇰, The Russian Federation 🇷🇺, Canada 🇨🇦, France 🇫🇷, Czechia 🇨🇿 and New Zealand 🇳🇿.  So please say hello and say what you want more of and what you want less of.  

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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 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.

Gretel loves the world and history, architecture, literature and people. And so is determined to walk this path with light footsteps and with humour and warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts.

Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review and possibly 5 stars (for effort as I realise it’s not deserved for achievement)🥴

Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.  

Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland, John Simpson, Eleanor Parker, Philippa Langley and Katie Channon.  

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...