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

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️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.  Thank you and very best wishes.  Are we all watching The Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow? 🙋‍♀️ Support the showGretel 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.  We’ve reached over 80,000 downloads.  Don’t try to listen in order, unless you’re very committed.  Dip in and out, choosing an episode based on the title information.  Whether you are interested in history, literature, poetry or one-to-one chatting, I try to give you something that will interest you.  This is a podcast for the curious, the kind and - possibly - the suffering or lonely.  Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast.  Thank you Tom🙏 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 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 😬☺️🥴Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Sir Richard Eyre; Actors Guy Henry and Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Author Nicola Cornick; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela T...