Episodes
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Sir Robert Peel in Parliament; the Founding of Peterborough; Pepys is Joyful; and Lucy Snowe has a Visitresse
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Belgian Buns, Saint Barnabas, John Clare and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
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Early Christianity in England; Tuesday Bells 🔔; Saints and Chronicles; et Villette
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Bonus Episode: Living with Grief and Tragedy, a Chat with a Friend
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Simply Villette 🕯️ (and a little abbey-loitering)
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A Saturday Salad 🥗: Roman Exeter, Lord Brougham, Pepys, Saint Norbert, and (merci Oxford) the Bare Necessities 🐻
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Short & Petite: We Close Charlotte Brontë’s chapter on Hope
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A Literary Late: Trollope, Hardy and C Brontë
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Teenagers, Trust and Trickiness; Samuel Pepys’ Diary; and Barchester Towers
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Princess Victoria becomes Queen; Lord Melbourne’s careless manner; Gretel Witters; and Saxon Deor
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Sunday Couplets: Augustine and Gregory; Slope and Archbishop; Graham and Lucy
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Literary Friday: Charlotte Brontë, Anthony Trollope and The Venerable Bede
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Matrimony in St Genny’s; Difficult Times; A Secret Brook
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Strictly Villette: Chapters XVIII and XIX
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‘That in the dreariest places peace will be a dweller and a joy’ John Clare
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Gentle Bonus Episode pour Vous: Pepys, Saints and Charlotte Brontë
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An Episode of Two Halves: birds, hedgehogs, puppies and silences; and then exquisite Villette
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Lucy Snowe Awakes; Puppy Eats Microphone; Saints are Remembered
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Saxon poem Andreas; Shelley’s Halcyon Morn; and Blackbird Sings 🐦⬛
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Simply Villette: Chapter XV ‘The Long Vacation’ 🌒
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Gretel absorbs William Shakespeare’s Stratford-Upon-Avon and chats with Sir Richard Eyre 🎭
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Strictly Literature: dear John Clare; Anthony Trollope; and Charlotte Brontë
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Gretel visits Oxford: a mooch about a beautiful city.
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Dr Eleanor Parker, author of Winters in the World, chats to Gretel in Brasenose College, Oxford
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Strictly Books: Anthony Trollope; Samuel Pepys and Charlotte Brontë
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Saxon Saturday: The Seafarer; Saxon Churches; and Anglo-Saxon England 🗡️
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Strictly Books; Villette by Charlotte Brontë 🥀
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Bonus Episode: St Augustine wins over the King of Kent while Gretel visits Sherborne Abbey
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Pepys enjoys his Sliding Rule; Lucy Snowe enjoys a Thunderstorm; and Madame Neroni enjoys needling a Bishop’s wife
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The Hollow Tree by John Clare; Lucy Snowe is watchful, in Villette; and St Gregory’s Greatness
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St Gennys, Samuel Pepys and an Old Saxon Lament; historian Tom Holland becomes our Honorary Patron
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Strictly Literature: Charlotte Brontë, Anthony Trollope, and Cup of Exquisite Poetry
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Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Hungry Hedgehogs; and Chatter
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Gretel pays her respects to the ANZACs at St Nicholas Church, Brockenhurst and sees a fox
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Gretel Ponders her Past; Pepys is Up Betimes; A Brace of Saints; and Chapter 8 of Villette
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Saxon Saturday: The Departing Soul’s Address to The Body; Egbert, Anselm & The Chronicle.
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Strictly Books: Villette and Essay on Nature by R Jefferies
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Lucy’s heart awakens by St Paul’s in Villette; Monsieur Robin; and Barchester Chronicles
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Fruit of Three Segments: SWIRE Exhibition; Lacock Abbey; and Books (Pepys, Trollope & Brontë)
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Gretel and Aerial Photographer Hedley Thorne visit Wayland Smithy
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The White Church of Woolstone; A Jamboree of Jackdaws; Wordsworth; and Villette
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Bonus Friday Episode: Secret Old Buildings; Trollope; and a Gothic Glossary
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Villette by Charlotte Brontë: Chapter Three - The Art of Minute Observation
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A Walk about St Peter’s Church, Purse Caundle; and we meet Madeline in Barchester Towers
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Strictly Books: Trollope, Brontë, Pepys and The Chronicles
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A Woodland Walk with Puppy; Pepys has a Sore Testicle; and Mr Harding hopes to be Warden again
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A Saxon Church with a Remarkable Rood; and Chapter One of Villette, by Charlotte Brontë
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A Return to Sandhurst; Preface to Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge; and the Start of Something New (York) 🦢
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Strictly Dickens: Barnaby Rudge comes to a Close
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Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour.