Meet Grimy and Dirty Dame Fripp; and Watch as Splendid Cardinal Wolsey Weeps in Canterbury

Send us Fan MailHello and a very happy Saturday. The last weekend in November. Tomorrow is Advent Sunday and Monday is the 1st. We’re also due another full super moon next week.  The waxing gibbous looks beautiful in the sky.  How are you and are you looking forward to Advent?  Do you buy a calendar and join in the fun?  Or do you find it all rather tedious?   Best wishes to you and I hope you may have an enjoyable Saturday evening.  I’m behind with my admin so apologies if you’re expecting an email reply or thank you.Love Gretel xx 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 73,000 downloads.  Thank you!! 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 Tilby; Aerial photographer Hedley Thorne; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.  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...