Yoga - in a dodgy tracksuit at 4am in your own home? MOVEMENTFORMODERNLIFE.COM
WELL BEING: Kat Farrants, founder of Movement for Modern Life Kat Farrants, founder of Movement for Modern Life, wants to revolutionize yoga culture. She delved into her yoga practice after the break up of her marriage but it was the death of her beloved dog that higlighted the dearth of quality online yoga teaching. Being outside of London at that time, she wanted the fantastic teachers that ...
18m May 06, 2014
18m
Gorgeous Gossip: Can you be a Feminist & write or read EROTICA with Julia Chambers
GORGEOUS GOSSIP: Can you be a feminist, and a feminine one at that, and write erotic fiction? Julia Chambers, author of erotic fiction My Renaissance, as well as a professor, mother, and many other things does just that and discusses how tricky it can be. Julia, Josephine and Donna debate - in Part 1 - the "c" word and how we encorporate feminism - or don't - in our lives. Not for the faint hea...
28m May 05, 2014
28m
Lindsey Bareham Food Writer & Cook talking about ONE POT Cooking and more
Lindsey Bareham invited Josephine into her kitchen which is her inspiration, her sanctuary and her workroom. She told Josephine about her fascinating career and how she became a cook as she wanted to try and cook what she ate when she went out to eat and was the restaurant critic of Time Out. She's written 12 cookery books and became famous for her daily quick supper's column in the Evening St...
48m Apr 30, 2014
48m
T S Learner - Author of the Week - THE STOLEN on Literary Lusts
As TS Learner, Tobsha Learner writes blockbuster conspiracty thrillers that span the globe and history. The Stolen is her latest thriller after Sphinx and The Map. The Stolen takes on the legacy of the Nazis on the gypsy community. Among other topics she takes on are super conductivity, Swiss complicity with the Nazi regime and Roma history and origins. She also discusses her erotic fiction. w...
35m Apr 29, 2014
35m
You Can Be Younger - Use the Power of your mind in 10 simple steps by MARISA PEER
Celebrity hypnotherapist Marisa Peer talked to Josephine about harnessing the power of your own mind to make you look and feel 10 years younger in 10 simple steps. First step: eat the oily fish! Step two....listen to her on Radio Gorgeous! Buy YOU CAN BE YOUNGER www.marisapeer.com @MarisaPeer Thanks to our PARTNERS: Movement for Modern Life: Revolutionising Online Yoga & Wellbeing #radiogo...
21m Apr 28, 2014
21m
Gorgeous Gossip with Comedian ABI ROBERTS: Twerk in Progress
Josephine and Donna both admit to faking orgasm to no good end! This is one instance where you should NOT fake it until you make it. You ain't gonna make it if you fake it. Big-haired, loud-mouthed comedian and impersonator Abi Roberts tells us about her TWO Edinburgh shows and does a great CHER! abiroberts.com @abiroberts www.standupforwomen.org.uk
21m Apr 27, 2014
21m
Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves SPOILER!
From the author of the wonderful The Jane Austen Book Club (with a plural narrator - how cool is that?) is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Karen Joy Fowler's peers were also beside themselves and awarded her the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Aside from the fun of saying the title is the nothing short of amazing read. The story of Rosemary and her missing siblings is told in a fresh an...
34m Apr 24, 2014
34m
Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
From the author of the wonderful The Jane Austen Book Club (with a plural narrator - how cool is that?) is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Karen Joy Fowler's peers were also beside themselves and awarded her the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Aside from the fun of saying the title is the nothing short of amazing read. The story of Rosemary and her missing siblings is told in a fresh an...
30m Apr 24, 2014
30m
FROG MUSIC by Emma Donoghue Author of the Week
Author of the Week – Emma Donoghue Frog Music From the sensational author of Room comes another astonishing tale set in the burlesque world of 1866 San Francisco. She has again used fact as a springboard for her glorious imagination. It starts with the murder (shot through a window) of Jenny, the trouser wearing, frog catcher. Another similarity with Room is motherhood under difficult circumst...
23m Apr 15, 2014
23m
Gorgeous Lives – Professor Joan Breton Connelly The Parthenon Enigma: A Journey Into Legend
We have decided that Professor Connelly has it all: she couldn’t be smarter or prettier and she spends two thirds of the year swanning about New York and infecting young minds with her love of all things Ancient Greek and the other third on the trail of Cleopatra on a small Cypriot island. And while doing so, she has come up with a revolutionary new interpretation of one of the world’s most ico...
38m Apr 15, 2014
38m
Retreats – Gorgeous Escapes with Sarah Tucker on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
Josephine and Donna attempt to manage their new phones and react strongly to gender stereotypes then and now. Ah, the joys of new stuff! Intrepid traveler – and yoga teacher – Sarah Tucker takes on the companies that jack up the prices during school holidays and then retreats… spiritually, physically, with a yogi – pick your non-poison. She tells us what’s on offer and how to figure out what’s...
22m Apr 13, 2014
22m
90′s Woman by Rosie Wilby & World Enough and Time by Fluff Productions on Gorgeous Gossip
Gorgeous Gossip Josephine goes it alone for her gossip – lonely much! But she’s joined via Donna by the cast and producer (Fluff Productions) of World Enough and Time, an era spanning play exploring women’s lives during politically volatile times currently playing at The Park Theatre. Then Josephine had a bad phone line chat with stand up comic Rosie Wilby. 90′s Woman Rosie’s new show is a ch...
23m Apr 07, 2014
23m
Every Day Vintage Luxuries with Gillian Anderson Price
Gorgeous Living If you’re looking for Suffragette jewellery or an early Kelly bag or naked lady playing cards from days gone by (and who isn’t?), Gillian Anderson Price’s wondrous shop in Mayfair will be your first and last stop. She sells all things vintage except clothing including curiosities and signage – an exceptionally eclectic and engaging and ever changing collection. Gillian’s advice...
15m Apr 05, 2014
15m
SEDITION by Katharine Grant – Author of the Week
The salaciously witty Sedition takes place in London 1794. America has already baled, heads are rolling in France and the coffee houses of London are buzzing with intrigue and gossip. Four men of wealth but not reputation seek to marry off their daughters to nobility and what better showcase than a pianoforte recital. Enter the piano teacher and all sorts of domestic seditions ensues. What is m...
34m Apr 01, 2014
34m
HANDBAGGED! – Maggie & The Queen on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
Apparently we are the laziest cows in Europe and Josephine and Donna are proof positive. Anyone for a cuppa? I need some sustenance before I type any further….But a tireless performer, Lucy Robinson (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Emma) joins us to talk about playing the young Queen in Handbagged, a play which explores the relationship between the Queen and M...
23m Mar 31, 2014
23m
YOU CAN BREATHE – The Caroline Kremer Method – Health Special
Let’s get wild and BREATHE! Breathe properly that is. We have all got used to the idea that we only use a fraction of our brains, but our lungs? Yes, turns out we need to Just Breathe the Caroline Kremer way. The trick: focus on the exhalation. Where breathing is concerned, less is more… www.carolinekremer.com For more gorgeousness sign up to our once a week mail shot with the latest shows ww...
19m Mar 31, 2014
19m
Hot*Flush Dance troupe – real women dancing!
“Move over girls, this is woman power. Fab fun and all for a great cause”Bruno Toniolo from Strictly Come Dancing What does an ex Hot Gossip dancer Alison Hierlehy do when she want to get fit? She asks 20 close friend who have never danced in their life if they fancy doing the odd dance move once a week. They all said YES and HotFlush was formed which gives women like us a chance to shake thei...
16m Mar 28, 2014
16m
Leah Hager Cohen – No Book but the World – Author of the Week
At the edge of a woods, on the grounds of a defunct “free school,” Ava and her brother, Fred, shared a dreamy and seemingly idyllic childhood—a world defined largely by their imaginations and each other’s presence. Everyone is aware of Fred’s oddness or vague impairment, but his parents’ fierce disapproval of labels keeps him free of evaluation or intervention, and constantly at Ava’s side. A ...
33m Mar 21, 2014
33m
Your Fantasy Your Rules – A GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR by Helena .S. Paige
Author(s) of the week A GIRL WALKS into A BAR by HELENA .S. PAIGE Who doesn’t want to choose their own erotic destiny? Too often it’s not in your control but the three women behind A Girl Walks into a Bar, A Girl Walks into a Wedding and coming soon, A Girl Walks into a Blind Date want to put you in charge. Josephine had a humdinger of a time – she started off on her night out with no pants. ...
21m Mar 18, 2014
21m
3 Romantic Cities in ITALY – GORGEOUS ESCAPES with Sarah Tucker
Gorgeous Escapes: Sarah Tucker’s Grand Tour of Italy Savvy traveller Sarah Tucker gives us her top tips for Venice, Florence and Rome. Take the tour: stand for coffee in Venice, beat the crowds in Florence and immerse yourself in the revamped Coliseum in Rome. Start with a weekend in Venice, the better part of a week in Florence and a lifetime in Rome…or at least two weeks! And always, always ...
28m Mar 17, 2014
28m
FabYOUless card up for grabs on Gorgeous Gossip
Love to look your best and love a bargain? The fabyouless card is about to launch just for you. The card gives you 25% off or 2 for 1 deals on health, beauty and fitness purchases, treatments and products at local independents and national chains throughout the country. It even works for personal trainers. Actress & voice-over artist Debbie Arnold and loyalty marketing maven Jo Kent tell Joseph...
10m Mar 15, 2014
10m
Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury at London’s Bush Theatre
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play: drumroll please!: We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Southwest Africa from the German Sudwest Afrika Between the Years 1884 – 1915 is on at the Bush Theatre until April 12, 2014. The first documented genocide of the 20th Century was perpetrated by the Germans in their African colony: Sudwest Afrika. In this refreshingly hon...
28m Mar 07, 2014
28m
Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon By Historian Kate Williams - Author of the Week
How far do you think black stumps for teeth, leadened white skin with large circles of crushed beetles for rouge and reappropriated mouse skins for eyebrows will get you? Empress! Napoleon’s beloved Josephine was born to a disaffected plantation owner, sent to France to marry, abandoned, shut in a convent, became a kept woman and court favorite but then along comes the Revolution and it was alm...
1hr 3m Mar 04, 2014
1hr 3m
The Hotel Plays by Tennessee Williams at The Langham London W1 Gorgeous Gossip
Here we go again: it’s half term again! Donna tries to run from her shadow, I mean her son. And Josephine tries to lose hers in Dans le Noir but accidentally gets him and his friends pissed instead – alas, another holiday survived. Back to the show! The Langham Hotel is the host for this year’s The Hotel Plays: a Defribrillator production of 3 Tennessee William plays set in hotel rooms. Donna ...
24m Mar 03, 2014
24m
Virginia Ironside – Agony Aunt & Comedian/ Solves YOUR Problems
Being a granny doesn’t seem to slow Virginia Ironside down, in fact it only seems to provide fresh material for her columns and one woman show. Operations are the new black, says the hopeful bionic woman and don’t be afraid of therapy. Make your life better: listen to Virginia Ironside on Radio Gorgeous. Have a dilemma for Virginia? She is happy to hear from you contact her on: info@radiogorge...
17m Mar 02, 2014
17m
Princess Michael of Kent – The Queen of Four Kingdoms/Author of the Week
Everyone had a cheetah as a pet? Well, you’re no princess! On the other hand you might expect that patron, scholar, proper princess and now historical novelist Princess Michael of Kent has. And she has. She and Josephine start talking about pets: dogs, cats large and small and move on to her Anjou Trilogy set in 15th Century France and her heroine Yolande, daughter of the King of Aragon. Yoland...
1hr 4m Feb 26, 2014
1hr 4m
Gorgeous Flicks introducing Clare Muller Film Critic on Gorgeous Gossip with Donna & Josephine
Moving pictures, film, cinema: it’s all entertainment. Josephine and Donna take a trip down memory lane to the darkened seats of the movie theatre and we introduce chicken chewing, Guinness toting Gorgeous Film Critic Clare Muller! She rates American Hustle, Wolf of Wall Street and August: Osage County. Does she give them one, two, three or the full four pack of Extra Cold Guinness?#movies #wom...
23m Feb 25, 2014
23m
The Women of The Full Monty: Rachel Lumberg & Tracy Brabin reveal all!
In 1997 the original “feelgood” film The Full Monty made us all believe in miracles. Oscar winning screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy recently returned to Sheffield to bring the story to the stage. Tracy Brabin and Rachel Lumberg – two Northern lasses – tell us what life is like on the road with the amazing show starting in Sheffield and now opening in London’s West End on February 25. Among other rev...
23m Feb 24, 2014
23m
Packed – A Supermarket Sweep in Sainsburys with Tessa Stuart Author of The Food Entrepreneur’s Guide
Josephine dashes around Sainsburys with branding expert Tessa Stuart and opens her mind to food shopping.Tessa who lives in London’s Chiswick studied history and boys at Oxford, and started in advertising. She then got a ‘proper job’ in branding research, working for Cadbury, British Airways, Nestle and Nat West, re-branding ALL the armed forces (handsome RAF pilots and Marines included). She ...
25m Feb 16, 2014
25m
SERVANTS A Downstairs View of 20th Century Britain – by Lucy Lethbridge Author of The Week
Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey have given us a skewed view of what it was like to be in service in the late Victorian, early Edwardian period. In grand houses, servants turned their faces to the wall when their masters walked by. The work was gruelling and poorly paid, you were up before dawn and couldn’t go to be until master was in bed – woe betide you if they fancied a party. But at l...
38m Feb 15, 2014
38m
Velvet Eccentric Interiors with Abigail Ahern the UK’s hottest Interior Designer
’”I can’t have enough velvet” Hannah from Velvet Eccentric VELVET ECCENTRIC what does that name conjure up? Something British, lustrous, unpredictable, luxurious. It is the name of a new business started by two women from Oxfordshire Stow-on- the- Wold in the Cotswolds Rachel Berger and Hannah Baud are interior decorators who can transform your home with their witty and original designs. VELV...
18m Feb 13, 2014
18m
DIVORCE the UP and the Downside/ GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Radio Gorgeous
D.I.V.O.R.C.E. Donna and Josephine talk about divorce not that they know what it really feels like being smug married themselves. So they invited Caroline and Lucy recent divorcees onto the show to ask what is it like being a divorcee? They explore the dating scene, the school gate, dinner parties, getting drunk more often and a new found independence. For more Gorgeous Gossips sign up at www...
27m Feb 10, 2014
27m
Sibling Rivalry – Are there any upsides? Gorgeous Gossip We ask Corinne a counsellor
Most of us have siblings. Donna and Josephine admit that may be they have been a touch competitive with their siblings. Blood is thicker than water… which only makes it all the messier when it spills! Sisterhood is lauded as the most supportive, loving bond but what happens when we carry the quest for our parents’ attention into adulthood and turn on each other like rabid dogs? Does birth order...
8m Feb 03, 2014
8m
TRAVEL Antarctica & Malta via Buenos Aires – Sarah Tucker on Gorgeous Escapes whats hot and whats not 2014
This week, our new travel correspondent Sarah Tucker brings you Gorgeous Escapes. She tells us about her 8 day expedition to Antarctica with her son and 90 other people ranging in age from 7 to the late 70′s. Sarah was overwhelmed by the sight of thousands of penguins with the backdrop of purple icebergs the size of mountains. Sarah saw giant whales and seals eating penguins. The white light re...
26m Jan 31, 2014
26m
Lucinda Riley – Midnight Rose –Romance Author of the Week with Donna Freed
Lucinda Riley is back on top with her latest blockbuster novel The Midnight Rose. It is a rich and sprawling story that starts in Colonial India and is played out in London and Dartmoor during the Great War and the roaring 20′s – Downton Abbey style and continues through to the present day. Anahita arrives in England from India just before the Great War and meets her destiny in the form of Dona...
30m Jan 30, 2014
30m
The Engagements by J. Courtney-Sullivan Author of the Week on Radio Gorgeous
NYTimes best selling author J Courtney Sullivan's latest novel The Engagements is an enthralling tale of love, marriage and the many forms of heartbreak. The De Beers perennial campaign: A diamond is forever was penned by Frances Gerety in the 1940's and is responsible for putting a diamond on the finger of the majority of engaged women. The Engagements follows her story as well as the story of...
32m Jan 28, 2014
32m
Diamonds Darling! Bling Bling Gorgeous Gossip with Amanda E-G Jeweller and Josephine and Donna
Our Gorgeous Gossip was suggested when Donna met the delightful J Courtney Sullivan - our Author of the Week - and we immediately started discussing engagements rings. Although her book, The Engagements, is all about diamonds we beg to differ! We got sound advice from Jeweller Amanda Egerton-King of Denzil Skinner & Partners: you're not a dominatrix just because you want to pick your own ring! ...
22m Jan 27, 2014
22m
DOMINATRIX Jacky Donovan reveals all in her biography INSTANT WHIPS and DREAM TOPPINGS
Have you ever needed a dominatrix in your life? Someone to tie you up, handcuff or shackle you and give you the once over with a leather whip? Jacky Donovan gave up her £100,000 plus salary to become a dominatrix and it was the best career move she ever made. She loves her job, her clients, her control. Listen to Josephine interview Jacky as she frankly reveals whats she does, what she doesn’t ...
36m Jan 25, 2014
36m
Create Your Perfect Future: Heal Your Past to Create the Life of Your Dreams – with PSYCHIC Anne Jirsch
Anne Jirsch is a future life progressionist – she believes you can go into the future and change your fate. Anne began working with past life regression over 20 years ago and through this discovered Future Life Progression. It has changed her life. Somehow by tapping into the future what we wanted came much sooner. Anne explained her life path to Josephine from being a hippie travelling in Indi...
25m Jan 20, 2014
25m
Treat Yourself Natural – Make Your Own Beauty Products with Sof McVeigh
Don’t we all want to look good naturally? Sof McVeigh is a homeopath, gardener and keen herbalist she is also a mother and founder of The Homemade Company. Sof’s great friend called Kirsty Allsop has written the preface to this beautiful, inspiring and practical book. Sof tells us some extraordinarily easy potions, tinctures and creams which we can whip up in our kitchens without too much fuss....
21m Jan 20, 2014
21m
LOSE Weight at SLIMMERIA Retreat GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Josephine and Donna
Above Galia Grainger in the dining room at Slimmeria. Josephine and Donna discuss their 2014 health regimes Josephine goes on the wagon and Donna vows to be more active. Josephine talks to Galia Grainger Director of Slimmeria a gorgeous Georgian house Hastings, East Sussex. Galia explains how her guests are put through their paces and describes a day at her retreat. Galia is half Russian and A...
27m Jan 18, 2014
27m
Given the Choice by Author Susan Sellers – Would you risk it all and have a child at 39?
Susan Sellers, Professor of English and Related Literature at University of St. Andrews, has had a broad and varied career which has included bar maid and translator in Paris, Peru and Swaziland. It seems inevitable that she turn her hand to fiction and she has with great result. She talks to Donna about her latest novel Given The Choice and the choice is the readers: she provides three endings...
26m Jan 07, 2014
26m
Among The Hoods, My Years With a Teenage GANG – HARRIET SERGEANT Author of the Week with Donna Freed
“I Went in as Anne Widdicombe and came out an anarchist” Harriet Sergeant Harriet Sergeant had never met a ‘hood’ until Swagger introduced her to Tuggy Tug and his gang in South London. Despite being initially frightened of them, she was charmed and moved by their ingenuity and intelligent perspective on life. Tuggy Tug admitted to Harriet that he had been stabbing and shooting but she realis...
48m Jan 05, 2014
48m
EXTRAVAGANCE - its all relative GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Josephine and Donna
EXTRAVAGANCE Above $150,000 bath tub Tis the season to go over the top: chuck caviar on your breakfast oats, drape yourself in swags of jewels and gold or as Josephine does: double up. If you love that cashmere sweater and are accident prone, buy TWO so when you dribble gravy down the front you can just chuck it behind you and put on the next. For that matter, perhaps you should buy THREE? The...
12m Dec 18, 2013
12m
GORGEOUS GOSSIP Rachel Hirons Screen Writer of POWDER ROOM and Drunken Antics with Donna and Josephine
EXPLICIT#powderroom #screenwriter #women What sort of drunk are you? slurring, sloppy, miserable, over enthusiastic, stroppy, wild or tearful? We discuss drunken antics in this weeks Gorgeous Gossip and we are joined on the show by a talented screen writer Rachel Hirons who has written Powder Room a British low budget film. At cinemas now, Powder Rooms protagonist is actress of the moment She...
24m Dec 18, 2013
24m
GIRL BUTCHER of Charlotte's Butcher talks Meat, Recipes and being a Female Butcher
Christmas is coming and hopefully the goose is getting fat and today on the show we have a butcher she calls herself the girl butcher. she trained at Jesmond O’Sheas in London’s Knightsbridge and Nigella’s favourite butchers Lidgates of Holland park. She is Charlotte of Charlottes Butchers and she now has her own butchers shop near Newcastle and can post meat anywhere in the UK. ‘Something Dif...
9m Dec 18, 2013
9m
Henrietta Green FOOD LOVER & CAMPAIGNER on Gorgeous Lives with Josephine Pembroke
Henrietta Green food campaigner brought US style Farmers Markets to Britain, started Borough Food Market and has written countless recipe books including the Food Lovers Guide to Great Britain. Henrietta champions British food and suppliers and has recently started Pop up Feasts. Hear Henrietta talk about her childhood, she was brought up with a cook, maid and nanny. Listen to her tell us abou...
55m Dec 12, 2013
55m
Best Selling Author Karen Swan - CHRISTMAS AT CLARIDGES
Karen Swan who worked on Tatler and Vogue is interviewed here by Donna Freed talking about her fabulous Christmas book Christmas at Claridges. Set in London's Portobello Road, Portofino in Italy and ending up at one of the worlds most glamourous hotels Claridges in London's Mayfair. Portobello – home to the world-famous street market, Notting Hill Carnival and Clem Alderton. She’s the queen of...
22m Dec 11, 2013
22m
What size bust are you? Rigby and Peller Lingerie Specialists for the Queen on RADIO GORGEOUS
What size bust are you? You probably have not be measured up properly for years. The Queen knows a thing or two about looking good and she has been using this UK company since 1960. Rigby and Peller are the only Lingerie company in the world who hold the Royal Warrant. Rigby and Peller’s expertly trained staff LOOK your bust and your back then tell you what size you are. Josephine was shocked ...
24m Dec 10, 2013
24m
Kate Mosse, BBC TV’s Last Tango in Halifax writer Sally Wainwright and Karen Swan on GORGEOUS GOSSIP – what do you really want for XMAS?
WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT FOR CHRISTMAS? Donna and Josephine chat about what they really want for Christmas (luxury pampering of course). And Gorgeous Gossip this weeks chats to two captivating women from different Genres of writing to find out what they are up to at the moment and what they would love for Christmas. Firstly we talk to best selling author Kate Mosse OBE about her latest book T...
33m Dec 09, 2013
33m