# Richard Eyre

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Alexander Pope and a Ropey Elephant compete with a Wittering Host 🐘

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Dear Friend or New Listener, thank you for joining me today as I wander the streets of Bridport, and talk for England before settling down to read the most thoughtful and eloquent Alexander Pope.  He reminds me of William Shakespeare in his thoughts on mankind …

Day 1 in Cornwall: The Princess Diaries, an American Poet, and The Pickwick Papers

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Hello and welcome back to Cornwall 🥳 Support the show 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 …

Cornwall Day 2: Barchester Towers, the Seaside Robin, and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Support the show 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, c…

Day 3 in Cornwall: A Skylark, Water Pipit and Linnets; and Sam Weller protects Mr Pickwick

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Support the show 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, c…

Day 4 in Cornwall: Chaucer, Trollope, Jeopardy and Mercy

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Support the show 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, c…

Day 5 in Cornwall: St Gennys Church, the Dog that Digs, and the Robin Romance

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Support the show 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, c…

Day 6 in Cornwall: Purely Pickwick

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Good evening. This is a photograph of the Leather Bottle Inn in Cobham, Kent, one of Charles Dickens’ favourite public houses, and features in tonight’s episode.  I don’t like what the managers have done inside though and is what is now too common: a canteen st…

Books for a Rainy Day: Pepys’ Diary, Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale, Some History of Canada & Australia, et John Clare

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Support the show 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, c…

Ancient Scottish Poetry; Royal Hesse Life; and Benjamin Franklin’s Candour

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Welcome! Thank you for joining me.  An honour for me to have some company.  I hope you enjoy today’s readings… 🙋‍♀️📚🫖 Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time.  She shares with you snippets from…

Maxine Peake on Being Doubted as an Actor, Underestimated for Being Northern & Standing Up for Her Politics

Maxine Peake has never been particularly interested in fitting in, or taking no for an answer. From refusing to leave drama school when she was told she wasn’t cut out to be an actor, to securing her RADA scholarship with a bold promise to “rob a bank” if she couldn’t afford it, Maxine has always f…