Autumn Theatre Round Up - THAT's Entertainment with Donna Freed
Autumn is the time for indoor entertainment so we offer you 3 plays - two in London and one in Leicester - for your delectation. Abigail's Party October 17 - November 8 at the Curve Theatre in Leicester We speak with Jackie Morrison who plays hapless neighbour Sue whose eponymous daughter is having a party next door. Unidentified Item n the Bagging Area October 14 - November 8 at the Old Red...
34m Oct 16, 2014
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JANE GREEN - Saving Grace - Author of the Week with Donna Freed
Author of the Week: Jane Green's Saving Grace First off: hats off to Jane Green for giving in and owning her curly hair - we salute you! Jane Green, along with Helen Fielding, is credited with giving birth to chick lit, however, both Jane and her work now have more depth. Donna surprised her with our own Great British Bakeoff and where we pited Jane against Gordon Ramsay. Listen in to see who ...
37m Oct 14, 2014
37m
Survive & Thrive after TRAUMA - with Healer SUSAN COWE MILLER
Wellbeing: Survive & Thrive after Trauma with Healer Susan Cowe Miller We are very familiar with - and perhaps even inured to - the idea of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. However, the effects are real and can last in the victim for the rest of their lives. Susan Cowe Miller tells us her story and why she became a healer. Susan has figured out how to free victims from the yoke of trauma and re...
25m Oct 13, 2014
25m
Women in Tech - Ada Lovelace Day, Fashion for Over 40's & Our Week on GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Josephine & Donna
Josephine and Donna discuss their random acts of self determination throughout the week including Josephine's roast goat. Josephine is then joined by former skateboarder Lisa Devaney of Women in Tech to tell us about Ada Lovelace Day. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace and the daughter of Lord Byron, born in 1815 is considered the very first computer programmer. Tech is all around us and in...
31m Oct 12, 2014
31m
Penny Hancock, A Trick of The Mind - Author of the Week on Literary Lusts with Donna Freed
Author of the Week: Penny Hancock, A Trick of the Mind What would you do if you came to think you caused someone a disfiguring accident? That is the starting point for Penny Hancock's latest "domestic noir" novel. She and Donna cover other topics like the menopausal mother and the agoraphobic father figure as architypes. She tells Donna why her debut novel Tideline being chosen for the Richard...
18m Oct 07, 2014
18m
Our Gorgeous Week at Sound Women, Actress Martina Laird & The Mitfords on Gorgeous Gossip!
Josephine and Donna sound off on their Sound Women event. The highlights: Fi Glover, Jane Garvey, Angie Greaves and Annie Nightingale - obviously; the low lights: blisters due to traipsing up and down the Victoria Embankment looking for the bloody Hispaniola! STOP PRESS Angie Greaves is coming onto Radio Gorgeous soon! Our That's Entertainment guest is actress Martina Laird in a stunningly hus...
30m Oct 05, 2014
30m
Psychic Julie Burgess Wells: Intuition & how to develop it with Elizabeth Kinder
Deeply sceptical about hippie mumbo jumbo in general and psychics in particular, Elizabeth Kinder was given a reading with the world-renowned clairvoyant, Julie Burgess Wells as a gift from a friend. When it transpired that Julie correctly predicted events in her life, she rang her friend and accused her of providing information. The reply was curt: “I didn’t need to. She’s bloody psychic!” Now...
25m Sep 30, 2014
25m
The Housekeepers Tale - The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House by Tessa Boase/ Author of the Week
Author of the Week: Tessa Boase: The Housekeeper's Tale Subtitled, The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House, journalist and author Tessa Boase discovered that, in fact, the butler didn't do it. She plowed through bundles of letters, diaries and household accounts to reveal a full picture of these grand houses and the remarkable women who ran them. ` housekeepers-tale.com @TessaBoas...
31m Sep 29, 2014
31m
How to Academy & Myths about the Menopause on Gorgeous Gossip with Donna & Josephine
It's back to school time and while we're self-confessed know it alls, we don't actually know how to do everything. The How To Academy, on the other hand, does! Whatever you're interested in, they have an expert to tell you how it's done, whether it's understanding art, investing or reading a particular author or even life skills for teenagers, they have a course. Donna went to an intimate, in d...
25m Sep 28, 2014
25m
The Perfume Society - a new venture by Jo Fairley - Do you want to learn about perfume?
Beauty genius and uber entrepreneur, Jo Fairley - we are forever grateful for the The Beauty Bible and Green & Black's chocolate - has a new venture: The Perfume Society. Scent unlocks our deepest memories but how to choose a new perfume? Why not sidestep the "guerilly-spritzing" at the counter and go on a guided tour with the Perfume Society. Discover and explore the world of fragrance and who...
24m Sep 24, 2014
24m
Julie Cohen - Where Love Lies, Author of the Week with Donna Freed on Literary Lusts
Author Julie Cohen originally came to these shores seeking fairies. She and Donna discuss Arthur Conan Doyle and other fairie facts as well as her suspenseful and romantic latest novel, Where Love Lies. The young woman at the center of her tale is a wife and by choice, not a mother. She finds herself utterly and inexplicably transported via the scent of frangipani to a time, earlier in her life...
24m Sep 24, 2014
24m
Young feminists - We ask Charlie Brades what's happening? on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
Can we have it all? Do we even want it? Josephine and Donna discuss Nathalie Loiseau's new book: Choissez Tout! She is under the impression that women, in trying to be the perfect wives and mothers, are holding back their careers. Stop helicoptering, enough with the breast feeding and take hammer and tongs to the glass ceiling! Looking for another perspective, Josephine talked to journalist Cha...
24m Sep 22, 2014
24m
SHARON CORR - The Same Sun - her new album with Elizabeth Kinder on Radio GORGEOUS
After a spectacularly successful fifteen-year stint with her brother and sisters in the Corrs - the band’s unique brand of Celtic rock sold over 45 million albums world wide - violinist and singer Sharon Corr stepped into the spotlight in her own right with a blossoming solo career and a musical renaissance. Celebrating the UK release of her second solo album The Same Sun, the famously beautifu...
32m Sep 16, 2014
32m
You can be a FEMALE INTERFAITH MINISTER - meet Susan Osman on Radio Gorgeous
Susan Osman, former BBC presenter and Chinese State Radio maverick, is now an interfaith minister. She explains exactly what this means as well as the extraordinary moment when she understood that she had a calling. She talks about her work as a spiritual counsellor and healer. www.rainbowsendfoundation.co.uk #women #radio #bbc #china #interfaith #faith #spiritual #healer
19m Sep 15, 2014
19m
The MIND MAKEOVER - Becoming the Best YOU Yet by Sharron Lowe on Gorgeous Gossip
Sharron gives us 3 tips on how to live our lives to the full and stop the fear and procrastination. Sharron advises blue chip corporates workers how to make changes to the way we they think her book applies her methods to help normal women like us. Sharron believes that if we change they way we think we can change our lives for the better. sharronlowe.co.uk www.facebook.com/SharronLowe @Shar...
27m Sep 14, 2014
27m
Birds with BOTTLE - Wine experts Mel Jones MW & Sandra Clement on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
Josephine and Donna were so eager to get to the booze, they didn't even bother to gossip! The lovely ladies from Birds with Bottle Mel Jones MW and Sandra Clement are passionate about wine and food & wine matching but hate all the poncy stuff that seems to come with wine education. For these birds, a hearty burgundy gives earthy hints of the following morning after the night before, hint, hint....
27m Sep 08, 2014
27m
Being a WOMAN in CHINA - Susan Osman Reinvents herself & creates a new career
What do you do when you've exhausted the news presenting possibilities in Bristol (where she worked with our very own dear Josephine) and London. China seemed the new frontier so she applied for a job but as she was wildly over qualified she was asked to set up a morning radio show, China Radio International. Like any enterprise, if she knew what she was getting into, she probably wouldn't have...
39m Jul 29, 2014
39m
On the Far Side, There's a Boy by Paula Coston - Author of the Week on Literary Lusts with Donna Freed
Paula Coston returns to Radio Gorgeous with her own novel (she covered the Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre for us) which is a fictional version of her real life circumstance of becoming a childless woman via circumstance. As it is a growing statistic that 1 in 5 women are childless and is predicted to be 1 in 4, it is an oft ignored issue. Paula speaks passionately and eloqu...
28m Jul 28, 2014
28m
The PERFECT JEANS? Donna tries them on at Damsel in Chiswick - Listen & Learn GALS! Gorgeous Gossip
Donna doesn't do jeans. Have you ever seen her in jeans? A rare sighting indeed, like a panda in the wild (same shape?). How could she resist the Paige Denim event at Damsel Boutique in Chiswick. Not only did she find a pair of jeans but they got her to wear a tshirt as well, will wonders never cease? Putting aside the frivolity for a nanosecond, and in attempt to redress the balance, Donna th...
37m Jul 27, 2014
37m
Joan Widdifield - Film maker talks about RAINY SEASON set in post war VIETNAM with Donna Freed
Rainy Season is a documentary focusing on the Hoang family, rubber tree farmers in rural Vietnam whose son, Tien was killed age seven. He was killed by unexploded American mortar leftover from the Vietnam War, an undeclared war still being waged by the Hoang familiy and families like them. Joan talks about how stories like the Hoangs changed her life and drove her to become a documentary filmm...
22m Jul 23, 2014
22m
Lawless by Jessie Keane & Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves: DOUBLE BILL! Author(S!) of the Week on Literary Lusts with Donna Freed
This week on Literary Lusts we have an embarassment of riches: both Jessie Keane and Ann Cleeves join us. Jessie Keane returns to Radio Gorgeous to talk about her latest book, Lawless as well as why women love violence in fiction. Ann Cleeves joins us for the first time (but not the last, she'll be back in September) to talk about her latest Vera Stanhope novel Harbour Street. Oxfam played a...
28m Jul 21, 2014
28m
IMAGE CONSULTANT Thomasin Newton on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
Gorgeous Entrepreneurs with Amanda Ruiz: Amanda talks neon and other colours with image, colour and style consultant Thomasin Newton. Donna and Josephine discuss the worrying trend that is emerging of young women declaring bankruptcy. Dismissing all thoughts that it might be school loans or the fact that they might be paid less, we jump to the conclusion that it's the expense and pressure of b...
23m Jul 20, 2014
23m
A-Zen of TRAVEL & The Landmark Trust - GORGEOUS ESCAPES with Sarah Tucker
SOME HOLIDAYS LEAD TO DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY WHILE OTHERS GET RID OF EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE – WHICH ONES SHOULD YOU AVOID? An innovative travel book published this summer claims while some holidays will help deal with the stress of every day life, other journeys will add to it. Written by Sarah Tucker, travel editor and broadcaster, who’s written three books on traveling with children (babies, todd...
28m Jul 15, 2014
28m
HER by Harriet Lane - A Novel about a TOXIC friendship - Author of the Week on Literary Lusts with Donna Freed
"A seductive thriller" Donna Freed Radio Gorgeous HER is a story about the how in the vulnerability of early motherhood we may misinterpret friendships and this particular friendship is highly toxic indeed. Harriet Lane speaks openly of the fears that led her to write and how she manages to balance hope and fear in her daily life. http://www.harrietlane.co.uk/ #radio #women #gorgeous #author...
35m Jul 14, 2014
35m
London Theatre Summer Round Up & ToXic Friendships on GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Josephine & Donna
Donna and Josephine have made treks to the Regents Park outdoor theatre. Donna to see the exhuberant, kid friendly - think panto participation at some points - 12th Night. Josephine went for the much more high brow but equally entertaining Porgy and Bess. Donna also spoke to Tanya Moodie who plays Esther, a black seamstress in turn of the century New York who sews gorgeous lingerie for a varie...
36m Jul 13, 2014
36m
SHIRLEY CONRAN on GORGEOUS LIVES – Money Stuff, Superwoman, Lace & MORE….
Her early divorce, along with her innate and pragmatic design sense and a gift for teaching has driven Shirley Conran to do many things: free women from housework (Superwoman), teach girls about sex (Lace), demand a work/life balance and she has now turned to money and maths. Women don’t have enough money and as Shirley says, money matters because it gets things done! She has done her research ...
55m Jul 10, 2014
55m
EAT MY HEART OUT by Zoe Pilger – Author of the Week on Literary Lusts with Donna Freed
Zoe Pilger has been deliciously described as “a foul-mouthed Nancy Mitford for the Gawker generation.” What’s not to love? Her first novel Eat My Heart Out is both hilarious and horrifying in turns as her heroine Ann-Marie tears through London and beyond on a helter skelter ride. Zoe is The Independent’s art critic. Zoe and Donna discuss the hazards of modern womanhood and life as well as the w...
29m Jul 08, 2014
29m
CLERKENWELL DESIGN SHOW on Gorgeous Gossip: We ask about your business ideas
DESIGNERS FEATURED ON TODAY'S GORGEOUS GOSSIP Lucy Clive of Clivework www.clivework.com Caroline Lindsell of A Rum Fellow www.arumfellow.com Judy Clark CVA Editions www.cvaeditions.co.uk Nichole Cross Wasatch Design Collective www.wasatchdesigncollective.com ENJOYED RADIO GORGEOUS? PLEASE SIGN UP to GORGEOUS MAIL at www.radiogorgeous.com #design #designer #business #entrepreneur #gorgeous...
36m Jul 06, 2014
36m
Louise Chunn of Welldoing.org WELLBEING SPECIAL with Josephine Pembroke
Wellbeing: Louise Chunn's WELLDOING.ORG It's hard enough to admit we have a problem, let alone that we should talk to someone about it. But once we get to that point, who do we talk to? Ex Editor of The Guardian Women's Page and Editor of Psychologies Magazine turned entrepreneur Louise Chunn saw a need for people to connect with the right therapist straight away and so started welldoing.org t...
41m Jul 03, 2014
41m
BEER EXPERT - Melissa Cole has a pint with Josephine - and tells us what to drink CHEERS!
sommALEier n.1. An expert who specialises in beer education, food matches and evangelism2. Probably the best job in the world… Meet Melissa Cole - Beer expert and a woman! The beer industry is male dominated and the consensus seems to be that if we ladies will dain to drink beer, we want it sweet. Thank goodness she is there to set them straight. She and Josephine met for lunch and a beery kn...
34m Jul 02, 2014
34m
ELLEN FELDMAN - The Unwitting - A NOVEL - Author of the Week on LITERARY LUSTS with Donna Freed
Ellen Feldman Author of the Week: The Unwitting Guggenheim Fellow Ellen Feldman excels in putting her fictional characters into an historical landscape. In her fifth novel, she tells the story of Charlie and Nell Benjamin at the height of the Cold War. He is the publisher of a left wing magazine and she a writer for the magazine in hard drinking New York. When tragedy strikes, Nell uncovers th...
26m Jul 01, 2014
26m
The Best of Radio Gorgeous 2013 with JO WOOD, NAOMI WOLF & HARRIET SERGEANT
Best of Radio Gorgeous from 2013 You are in for a treat we have created an easy to digest 'Best of Radio Gorgeous' for you to enjoy. Firstly you will hear perky Jo Wood talking about hanging out with the Rolling Stones and then the happiness that came from getting of their cloud. Then meet Harriet Sergeant right wing think tank writer who studied South London gangs and befriended and mothered ...
28m Jun 24, 2014
28m
BE SAFE I LOVE YOU by Cara Hoffman - Author of the Week on Literary Lusts with Donna Freed
Author of the Week: Cara Hoffman, Be Safe I Love You As the saying goes: you can never go home again. It's especially hard to go home if you've been in a combat zone. Be Safe I Love You tells the story of Lauren Clay, a woman soldier returned from Iraq, to find her role as the caretaker of the family usurped. She takes her beloved younger brother Danny on an adventure but where are they headed...
22m Jun 23, 2014
22m
KICK ASS Dinner for WOMEN with attitude GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Donna, Josephine & Amanda
Gorgeous Gossip Kick Ass is a networking group that wants to give you and your business a kick up the pants. Kick Ass was kicked off by Paula McArthur who describes herself as a collector and connector of clever people. Josephine had a little business idea of her own and coralled Amanda Ruiz to be our new business correspondent bringing us Gorgeous Entrepreneurs. We got worried when we read a...
20m Jun 22, 2014
20m
From MTV to MECCA by Kristiane Backer on Gorgeous Lives with Josephine Pembroke
Kristiane Backer From MTV to Mecca From MTV to Mecca - or from babe to burka as Bob Geldof put it - is the fascinating story of how high flying MTV Europe hostess with the mostest found Islam. She tells Josephine how dating Imran Khan introduced her to Islam and began her journey - spiritual, political and intellectual - to conversion to Islam. kristianebacker.com twitter.com/KristianeBacker...
40m Jun 17, 2014
40m
Rachel Howzell Hall - Land of Shadows - Author of the Week with Donna Freed
Author of the Week: Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows Rachel Howzell Hall has turned to crime fiction and created detective Lou Norton, an indelible female detective working the very LA Jungle where she (and Rachel Howzell Hall) grew up - a perfect mix of LA grit and glam. She also shares with Donna her battle with breast cancer while pregnant with her daughter. With her own mix of grit and...
34m Jun 16, 2014
34m
Maripaz Jaramillo - Ellas (Them) - Colombian Artist on Gorgeous Gossip with Josephine & Donna
Gorgeous Gossip: Art Attack Colombian artist Maripaz Jaramillo returns to London for a solo show at the Sandra Higgins Art Gallery. She talks to Donna about the changes in her life that have brought about radical changes in her art work. She is both unabashedly feminist and sensual. Sandra Higgins tells us about traveling alone through Colombia why she has moved into representing South America...
24m Jun 15, 2014
24m
Twiggy PART TWO - M&S, family & Love Life
In the second part of Josephine's conversation with Twiggy, the former - and current - model and actress talks about her love life, her daughter and her move into designing for Marks & Spencer. It will probably be a catfight between Josephine and Donna for the blue suede jacket! ALL MUSIC CHOSEN BY TWIGGY www.twiggylawson.co.uk @Twiggy Don’t get lost in cyber space sign up to GORGEOUS MAIL ...
28m Jun 11, 2014
28m
Could you work with your MOTHER? Meet JIYA Jewellery & 20% off!
Hear about what's on this week on Radio Gorgeous then we ask could you work with your Mother? Could you work with your daughter? Jiya - which means piece of my heart - is a brand of hand woven gold & silver bracelets by Jean and Nicky Varakuta. The bracelets are designed to go from the 'beach to the boardroom.' Daughter Nicky, in her final year at school, brings the youthful edge, while mom Jea...
25m Jun 09, 2014
25m
An APPETITE for VIOLETS by Martine Bailey - Author of the Week on Literary Lusts
Literary Lusts: Author of the Week: Martine Bailey An Appetite for Violets Competitive cook turned novelist, Martine Bailey took the 18th Century kitchen as the inspiration for her tale of mystery and adventure in the life of her heroine Biddy. Biddy is a cook in a big country house with a new, young and very spoiled mistress whose favourite sweetmeat is violets. Recipes and culinary history p...
27m Jun 03, 2014
27m
Author Joanna Rees reports from Dark & Stormy CRIME Festival on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
On Radio Gorgeous we encourage women to try new things: be like Madonna and reinvent yourself if only for an afternoon, you might just like it! In that spirit, we got the lovely novelist and Brighton light Jo Rees to attend the Dark and Stormy Festival of crime writing in Brighton. Intrepid Jo nabbed festival co-founder and author Julia Crouch (who coined the phrase: domestic noir!) as well as ...
35m Jun 02, 2014
35m
Dinah Jefferies – THE SEPARATION – Author of the Week on Literary Lusts
Resourceful Dinah Jeffries drew upon her early childhood memories of the last gasp of Colonial Malaya as the setting of her first novel The Separation. She was able to relive the past with her mother through old photographs but also drew on a tragic experience of her own as a mother. She tells Donna about starting over and her recent return to the UK from Spain as well as her next novel. She wi...
33m May 29, 2014
33m
Rachel Kelly – BLACK RAINBOW – Health & Wellbeing Special
How do you explain to your child that your head is broken? Times journalist Rachel Kelly tells us about her journey through depression with the publication of her book Black Rainbow. She tells us how you can manage your life by learning new life skills and through the power of poetry. ALL The profits from Black Rainbow are going to charities SANE and United Response www.rachelkelly.co.uk @ra...
29m May 29, 2014
29m
Can you really do Ballet at your age? Yes BALLET FOR LIFE
As we all know, (our) Donna is used to holding onto the bar for dear life, but the barre? More maladoit than graceful, more too too much than tutu, she gave it a go and is now enrolled. Donna Schoenherr tells us how she (a fellow New Yorker with an identical knee injurty - spooky!) came to start Ballet4Life and why age and infirmity - let alone apathy - are no barriers to the barre at any age. ...
26m May 20, 2014
26m
Elisabeth Russell Taylor - BELATED Author of the Week on Literary Lusts
One could merely say that Elisabeth Russell Taylor is an author of 6 novels, 3 collections of short stories - the latest being Belated - 4 children's books, 5 nonfiction works, numerous articles, reviews, radio plays, films scripts, etc. and you would know that she is ceaselessly creative and energetic. But what you wouldn't know is that she is sharp, witty, incisive, elegant, gorgeous, determi...
39m May 20, 2014
39m
Desdemona - a play about 3 women That's Entertainment on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief If Othello is a play about men and power and Desdemona is the murdered pawn in Iago's plot for Othello's downfall, this play is all about the women's enmeshed relationships behind the scenes. Sadly, the result is the same and that darned handkerchief is still the deciding factor is Desdemona's fate! We are joined by the cast members Ingrid Lacey (Amelia),...
20m May 18, 2014
20m
Just One More by...by GEMMA LEVINE - Photographer to Royalty & Stars
Gemma Levine, photographer Just One More She started her photographic career taking pictures in the parks of London and then of the Goons - a clear connection if you're Gemma Levine! Jeremy Robson, then a young publisher, asked her to take snapshots for the covers of his books which ultimately led to a career defining 10 year collaboration with the sculptor Henry Moore. Since that time, her po...
41m May 12, 2014
41m
The Girl From STATION X - Elisa Segrave - Author of the Week on Literary Lusts
Author of the Week: Elisa Segrave, The Girl From Station X Elisa's relationship with her mother, Anne Segrave, was blighted from the age of 7 when a family tragedy broke her mother's spirit. Under this cloud, it was impossible for mother and daughter to be close. It was only when her mother was unknowable due to Alzheimer's that Elisa got to know her through journals that she found in her moth...
30m May 12, 2014
30m
Gorgeous Gossip - with a nice cup of OLIVE tea with BIMBI BELLHOUSE
Love antioxidants - hate bitter green tea? Josephine and Donna are tarts for new tea and they found a champion in dynamo Bimbi Bellhouse and her Mirabilia Olive Leaf Tea hand plucked, dried and broken by little old Italian ladies on from her Abruzzo olive trees. The benefits go on: no tannins, caffiene or food miles, more antioxidants than you can shake a stick at (3 times as many as green tea)...
20m May 11, 2014
20m
Andrea Gillies - The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay - AUTHOR OF THE WEEK
AUTHOR OF THE WEEK: Andrea Gillies, The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay Andrea Gillies started her publishing career with Keeper, a journal of how she and her family moved to a massive house on a remote Orkney island, to care for her mother-in-law who suffered from dementia and also kept a B and B as well as horses and chickens. The power of this experience allowed her to unlock the novelist in...
30m May 07, 2014
30m