Wide mouthed-Hate-dents, Yorkshire and Barchester Folk, Pepys, E Thomas and A Marvell

Send us Fan MailA very happy vendredi to you.  A good week? Or no?  A pleasant weekend in prospect?  Fun and happy plans? Or not?  Too much lone time in prospect, and an uneasy feeling of isolation and dependence on the television?  Whatever your circumstances, I wish you well.  Don’t keep anything to yourself that might be unhealthy.  Write it down, share with a friend, or join an online support group.  You are not alone and people care.  Night night for now.  And don’t catch your jumper sleeve on any ‘wide-mouthed hate-dents..’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...