How To Juice Debrose of LIBRAW - Vegan Juicer HEALTH & WELLBEING
How to Juice meet Debrose of LIBRAW, She's a Libra, she's vegan and raw! Food entrepreneur Debrose came along to Radio Gorgeous and illuminated us on all things raw, vegan and juicy! She has developed a line of organic foods and shares her knowledge through workshops and her event Natural November. http://www.libraw.co.uk https://twitter.com/NATURALN0VEMBERLOVED this? Try this: http://bit.ly...
19m Nov 30, 2015
19m
I Call Myself A Feminist THE VIEW OF 25 WOMEN UNDER 30
I Call Myself a Feminist! Part 1 Martha Mosse, award winning feminist performance artist, TED talker and daughter of novelist & Bailey's Prize founder Kate Mosse has co-edited and contributed to a collection of essays by women under the age of 25 who proudly proclaim to the world: I call myself a feminist. http://marthamosse.tumblr.com #feminist #interview #lifestyle #books #donnareed #radio...
11m Nov 30, 2015
11m
Gary Cockerill in the Beauty Hall in Fenwicks - What does he LOVE? Man Week on RADIO GORGEOUS
Gary Cockerill takes us around FENWICKS beauty hall and tells us about SIMPLY GLAMOROUS his make up book. Gary described being in the beauty hall in Fenwicks of Bond Street "Like being in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory" He could have devoured everything! He was so excited about the products Gary gives us beauty tips too and tells us about his dream brush. http://www.garycockerill.com#Shopping...
8m Nov 24, 2015
8m
Gary Cockerill From Coal Dust to Stardust - Gary's Career on MAN WEEK Radio Gorgeous
Gary Cockerill talks about his life before and after his success as a top makeup artist. He tells us about working in a coal mine in Doncaster to earn the money to come to London. And being the first gay married couple on the front of OK Magazine and working with celebrities. Gary tells us about how lucky he has been and how there is a dark side to fame that he tries not to succumb to. http:/...
9m Nov 23, 2015
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Gary Cockerill Makeup Tips & SIMPLY GLAMOROUS Man Week on Radio Gorgeous
Gary Cockerill Makeup Tips & SIMPLY GLAMOROUS Man Week on Radio Gorgeous TO SEE GARY's MUM before and after go to: www.radiogorgeous.com Gary Cockerill gives us his hard earned Makeup Tips especially for women of a certain age. Gary also tells us all about his gorgeous new book SIMPLY GLAMOROUS. Buy the BOOK http://www.garycockerill.com #Makeup #Beauty #MakeupTips #GaryCockerill
15m Nov 23, 2015
15m
The Story of Alice ROBERT DOUGLAS FAIRHURST Man Week on Radio Gorgeous
The Story of Alice ROBERT DOUGLAS FAIRHURST Man Week on Radio Gorgeous Podcast Length: 17 minutes 58 Seconds Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage – a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years. This is their secret story: a history of love and loss, of innocence and ambiguity, and of one man’s need to make Wonder...
18m Nov 22, 2015
18m
Peter Swanson The Kind Worth Killing CRIME Author on MAN WEEK
Peter Swanson The Kind Worth Killing You Should Never Talk To Strangers MAN WEEK on Radio Gorgeous Podcast Length: 18 Minutes 58 Seconds Sunday Times "Thriller of the Month" Crime writer, poet and Alfred Hitchcock enthusiast Peter Swanson talks about his second thriller, The Kind Worth Killing. What makes a person capable of killing? For Peter's characters it is sometimes a case of using mur...
19m Nov 22, 2015
19m
Karen Ruimy Clear Calm and Connect a course of guided meditations to help you realise your full potential
Karen Ruimy Clear Calm and Connect a course of guided meditations to help you realise your full potential Podcast Length: 27 minutes 31 Seconds The first programme in a series of meditations from the spiritual author Karen Ruimy where reading an extract from her autobiography she shares the insight inspired by her experiences and gives us a guided meditation that has helped her to transform h...
28m Nov 19, 2015
28m
Butterfly Fish a Nigerian Novel of EPIC Proportions on Radio Gorgeous
Irenosen Okojie Butterfly Fish Podcast Length: 24:54 Butterfly Fish is a beautiful, haunting novel that weaves together the story of a young, fragile Londoner, Joy, with that of a mysterious female who reveals herself to Joy through a series of clues. Binding them together is a mysterious artefact Joy inherited from her mother, an warrior's head cast in bronze, that once belonged to an eighte...
25m Nov 17, 2015
25m
Strictly Ballroom Tales from the DANCEFLOOR by Diana Melly on Radio Gorgeous
At the age of 76, after her husband of 46 years George died of dementia, Diana Melly took up ballroom dancing. It not only cheered her up but transformed her life. She tells Josephine about death, dogs and dancing. Strictly Ballroom by Diana Melly is published by Short Books If you liked this podcast try this one: http://bit.ly/LindyH www.radiogorgeous.com #DianaMelly #Strictly #dancing #bal...
12m Nov 16, 2015
12m
Rosie Millard The Square
Journalist and broadcaster Rosie Millard has turned novelist. With no time to do additional research, Rosie Millard set her novel in a milieu she knows, a pretty London square very much like her own. Although she is a bit like the thin, blonde Jane (she was the one who called her a massive bitch!) she is NOT having an affair with her neighbour. The other characters in this comedy are the Lotter...
15m Nov 10, 2015
15m
Where is safe to travel? GORGEOUS ESCAPES with Sarah Tucker
Where is safe to Travel? with Sarah Tucker Better Safe Than Sunny Say Fraidy Brits! In travel - like anything else - perception is everything. In the past, Brits have been relatively impervious to threats of terrorism or natural disasters but we have become more cautious. Money has always been the first priority but sun used to usurp safety. Sarah who remains "A to Zen of Yoga" about travel h...
14m Nov 10, 2015
14m
Ruth Dugdall Nowhere Girl Author talks KIDNAPPING & BURSARIES
Ruth Dugdall Nowhere Girl Being a trailing spouse has its benefits: when Ruth Dugdall, former probation officer and mother of two moved to Luxembourg for her husband's job, she realised that Luxembourg was a potential kidnapping haven (surrounded as it is by 4 countries and sea) and conceived of her 5th book. She also talks about how the Luke Bitmead Bursary changed her life. http://www.ruthd...
19m Nov 10, 2015
19m
Charlotte Brontes Secret LOVE by Jolien Janzing
Charlotte Brontes Secret LOVE In a bid for adventure and freedom, Charlotte Bronte went on a gap year of sorts: she and her sister Emily went abroad ostensibly to study languages. Brussels, and the elegant boarding house of Madame Heger, were a world away from the oppression of their father's Yorkshire house and so was the terrible passion that gripped Charlotte when she fell in love with her t...
34m Nov 05, 2015
34m
Noel & Cole CABARET meet SIR JOHN STANDING on Radio Gorgeous
John Standing almost got away from the family trade of acting and into painting but as his mother thought he needed to earn, he fell back on acting. How he thought he would get away with it when he grew up with Laurence Olivier and Vivienne Leigh, Noel Coward and John Guilgud is beyond us but he has been in everything from Private Lives with Maggie Smith to Game of Thrones. His current show is ...
17m Nov 04, 2015
17m
Erica Jong FEAR OF DYING with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous
Erica Jong:Fabulous and almost totally fearless Erica Jong talks hot pants, poetry as an antidote to fame, the formula for being fearless and why grannies ought to be in charge of when we go to war. Her latest book, Fear of Dying, reintroduces Fear of Flying's Isadora Wing but it is the aging actress Vanessa Wonderman's star turn. @EricaJong #ericaJong #feminism #author #women#interview #Fear...
24m Nov 03, 2015
24m
Kate Mosse Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction
Kate Mosse Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction In part three of three interviews with Kate she expresses good-natured exasperation when questioned on the relevance of the prize 20 years after she and others founded it: Did Nobel get asked? Each and every prize awarded has criteria to be met; The Bailey's Women's Prize for fiction is for... women! Enough said! http://www.womensprizeforfiction.co....
11m Nov 02, 2015
11m
Intermission Youth Theatre - Doing it for themselves
Intermission Youth Theatre:Mark Rylance was so impressed with Intermission Youth Theatre's adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew: Taming Who, he asked them to be their patron. Based in St. Saviour's in Knightsbridge, Intermission Youth theatre is directed by former prison inmate Daren Raymond. We speak to Associate Director, Cecilia Segar and two young women in this year's production,...
19m Nov 02, 2015
19m
Ghost Louise Welsh 100 curated Ghost Stories
GHOST Louise Welsh Acclaimed, Glasgow-based writer Louise Welsh has curated a collection of 100 Ghost Stories To Read With The Lights On. We are understandably as obsessed with our dead and death as we are with life and while we may yearn for the return of our loved ones, we are terrified what form that return might take. She has chosen authors both dead and alive (ghostwriters!) from Edgar A...
17m Oct 29, 2015
17m
QUEEN OF NOIR Writing CATHI UNSWORTH - Without The Moon on GORGEOUS READS
Queen Of Noir Writing Cathi Unsworth - Without The Moon Readers of Cathi Unsworth will know that not only is she the Queen of Noir, she is also the queen of evoking time and place. Her latest novel, Without The Moon, is set in the crime-primed London of 1942; the nights of Blitz and blackout were a perfect playground for criminals. Her starting point is the true crimes from February 1942 of Go...
20m Oct 21, 2015
20m
Style Forever Alyson Walsh AGELESS AGING STYLE
The elegant and effervescent Alyson Walsh has long been a fashionista but started wondering what happens after 40? How do we stay stylish? She started a blog: That's Not My Age, The Grownup Guide to Great Style; highlighting the supposedly invisible middle age and beyond women of considerable style. The blog decided to grow up as well and become a book. We think you'll agree that she has the mo...
11m Oct 20, 2015
11m
Want to be RICH? Wealth Creator for WOMEN - Belinda Grashion GORGEOUS ENTREPRENEUR with Amanda Ruiz
Wealth Creation for Women - Belinda Grashion Gorgeous Entrepreneurs: Amanda Ruiz with Belinda Grashion Belinda Grashion started off life in sales: she was peddling religion door-to-door from a very young age and with an impressive conversion rate to boot. She wanted out but got knocked up by the boss at 18. By 40, despite never working in her adult life, she was a desperately poor single moth...
33m Oct 20, 2015
33m
Rachel Johnson - Fresh Hell
Rachel Johnson's Fresh Hell Third in her Notting Hill trilogy finds journalist Mimi Fleming returning from the country to her old square. While she was a wellie wearing country bumpkin, her neighbours have groomed and slimmed and become even younger looking. They are busy living in her house, installing double-basements and banker bashing while she is in an ex-council maisonette and falling de...
18m Oct 14, 2015
18m
Beautiful Bras Post Surgery - WOMANZONE- Health & Wellbeing on Radio Gorgeous with Jo Rees
Embrace your breasts! If we paid as much attention to our breasts and health as we do to facebook, we'd catch cancer sooner! Marita Louis has dedicated the last 30 years of her life to fitting prosthesis', bras and made-to-measure swimwear for women after breast surgery. A cancer diagnosis and breast surgery can be devastating but Marita encourages us to check and check and check! and stay posi...
16m Oct 14, 2015
16m
A Sex Worker & a Lesbian both FEMINISTS & SISTERS Radio Gorgeous with Donna Freed
A Sex Worker & Lesbian & both FEMINISTS & Sisters That's Entertainment: Sister In a body and soul baring show, sisters Amy and Rosana Cade explore their sexual and personal identities through lap and pole dances, letters home and deeply personal stories. The tag line is that while they are sisters and feminists one is a sex worker and one is a lesbian - we never thought of that as an either/o...
25m Oct 07, 2015
25m
Would YOU ever contact a problem page? Bel Mooney from the Daily Mail - Life Lines
Would you ever contact a problem page? Bel Mooney from the Daily Mail - Life Lines Health and Wellbeing: Bel Mooney's Lifelines: Words to Help You Through Bel Mooney is many things and Agony Aunt is the least of it. However, as a journalist of longstanding she does write an advice column for the Daily Mail. She is read by millions because along with her heartfelt advice, she shares her person...
22m Oct 06, 2015
22m
Agoraphobia - is it madness? Whispers Through A Megaphone by Rachel Elliot on RADIO GORGEOUS
Agoraphobia - is it madness? Whispers Through A Megaphone by Rachel Elliot How do you deal with everyday madness, is everyone as mad as you feel? Rachel Elliott explores our coping and curbing techniques through the stories of her two protagonists, Miriam, who hasn't left her house in 3 years and Ralph, a psychotherapist who is blind to himself but whose life is being broadcast to the world th...
21m Oct 05, 2015
21m
Is MEDITATION for YOU? Meet CHARISMATIC Karen Ruimy - Musician Performer Writer & Spiritual Guide on Radio Gorgeous
Meditate & Change meet KAREN RUIMY musician, performer, writer and spiritual guide. In this introduction to Karen Ruimy, the spiritual author explains why she walked away from a high-flying career in finance to meditate and write. Explaining how she learnt to listen to her own inner voice - and the transformation this brought her as she discovered her life’s path - Karen guides us in an introd...
23m Sep 23, 2015
23m
Queen of HAIR THE MUSICAL - Annabel Leventon at Crazy Coqs
Queen of HAIR THE MUSICAL - Annabel Leventon at Crazy Coqs Cabaret Annabel Leventon is a true 70's rock chick. Performer, actress, cabaret star and serious actress is performing on Sunday 27 2015 September at Crazy Coqs in Covent Garden. She has worked with many famous actors including Peter O’ Toole, Mark Rylance, Jeremy Irons and Elaine Paige. Judy Garland and Cilla Black have both visited ...
38m Sep 23, 2015
38m
A Woman on Death Row - The Book Of Memory by PETINA GAPPAH on GORGEOUS READS with Donna Freed
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah - Tells the tale of a WOMAN on Death Row Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009. The Book of Memory is the story of Memory, an albino Zimbabwean woman on death row for the murder of her ad...
30m Sep 22, 2015
30m
Kate Mosse THE TAXIDERMISTS DAUGHTER A Revenge Thriller with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous
Kate Mosse THE TAXIDERMISTS DAUGHTER A Revenge Thriller with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous Kate Mosse's seventh novel takes place among the rising waters of the Fishbourne marshes in 1912 Sussex. It is a gothic revenge thriller set in the strictly codified years just prior to World War 1. Connie Gifford, daughter of the taxidermist, lost her memory 10 years ago but the horrifying consequences ...
17m Sep 22, 2015
17m
Share a LOVER? Rules For Thursday Lovers, comedy fiction by YANA STAJNO on Radio Gorgeous
Share a LOVER? Rules For Thursday Lovers, comedy fiction by YANA STAJNO on Radio Gorgeous What does a bored, ignored, middle-aged wife and mother do? Take a lover? Too much trouble on one's own, wouldn't it be better to share one with a friend? What could possibly go wrong with that?Josephine explores the possibilities of Rules For Thursday's Lover with Yana. Yana who was born in Zimbabwe and ...
16m Sep 21, 2015
16m
Chantal Coady from ROCOCO - Chocolate Queen with Nicki Bannerman
Chantal Coady from ROCOCO - Chocolate Queen with Nicki Bannerman As a child, Chantal Coady dreamed of a magical chocolate shop but would wake devastated that it was just a dream. In 1983, she made her dream reality with her Chelsea shop on the Kings Road. She was the first to bring both fine chocolate and a warm and wonderful, bespoke experience to the consumer. @rococochocs http://blog.roco...
36m Sep 15, 2015
36m
Kate Moss on Agatha Christie's Disappearance
Kate Mosse on Agatha Christie's Disappearance PART TWO of a series with the renowned author. Author Kate Mosse - who fell in love with the books of Agatha Christie as a child – has been commissioned by the BBC to write a short story to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth on September 15. Hers is the first work of fiction commissioned by the BBC and for it she wrote a f...
11m Sep 14, 2015
11m
Back to School with Kallikids.com's Karen Bach GORGEOUS ENTREPRENEUR'S with Jo Reese
Gorgeous Entrepreneurs: Back to School with Kallikids.com's Karen Bach Jo Rees talks to Brighton based Karen Bach about Kallikids, the on-line company who vet children's activities and clubs. Kallikids provides trusted and verified information on childrens' clubs, programs and activities around the country. To staff Kallikids, Karen tapped into the wealth of full-time mums who also want to wor...
16m Sep 08, 2015
16m
KAUTHAR A story about ISLAM - Meike Ziervogel Author with Donna Freed
Author of the Week: Meike Ziervogel, Kauthar Kauthar is the third novel by Meike Ziervogel (author and owner of Peirene Press). Kauthar is the timely story of Lydia, now Kauthar, a white British woman who converts to Islam and gradually becomes psychologically distorted in her faith 'In a story that is grounded in recent current events, yet profoundly metaphysical and philosophical in the que...
25m Aug 06, 2015
25m
Healing Sources – Spas and Wellbeing from the Baltic to the Black Sea by SOPHIE BENGE
Sophie Benge talks to Josephine Pembroke about her gorgeous book Healing Sources – Spas and Wellbeing from the Baltic to the Black Sea. This interview takes you on a beautiful journey through the contemporary and ancient spas of Eastern Europe. Great insight into traditional treatments set in the most breath-taking architecture and scenery. Find out more about bargain spas at cool unheard of de...
16m Aug 06, 2015
16m
Wisdom from LINDY HENNY – Behold Sarah
Behold Sarah by Lindy Henny – A semi autobiographical novel about the meaning of life. Lindy Henny is an amazing role model for all of us. Now in her 80’s this is her first novel. Lindy is a writer, a poet, a therapist, playwright and artist. She tells us her life story of sexual abuse, an alcoholic mother and working in a prison. Lindy lives on a bohemian house boat in Chelsea surrounded by h...
31m Jul 20, 2015
31m
The A to Zen of YOGA by Sarah Tucker A PRACTICAL GUIDE - Health & Wellbeing on Radio Gorgeous
Wellbeing: Sara Tucker, our intrepid travel journalist, is also an experienced yogi. She has written the A to Zen of Yoga, a practical guide for the inflexible and non-spiritual to the bendy mystics among us. The book is organised around the different postures and what they can do for you: promote sleep, relieve anxiety, etc. She is also a proponent of airport yoga lounges. Downward dog or duty...
8m Jul 14, 2015
8m
ISRAELI Author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen ONE NIGHT, MARKOVITCH Author of the Week with Donna Freed
ISRAELI Author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen ONE NIGHT, MARKOVITCH Author of the Week with Donna FreedIsraeli Psychologist and screenwriter, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen has produced a stunning first novel that is epic, hilarious, unbelievable and prosaic, all at the same time. It was inspired by the true story of Jewish men who were sent back to Germany from Palestine to Germany to rescue Jewish women by marry...
23m Jul 13, 2015
23m
Erotic Fiction - Our Little SECRET by Jenna Ellis on GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Donna Freed
Erotic Fiction - Our Little SECRET by Jenna Ellis on GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Donna Freed Gorgeous Gossip: Donna talks dirty with Jenna Ellis about her erotic thriller Our Little Secret. They also talk Fifty Shades of Filth and other rum reads. Jenna has travelled the world as a photographer and is now teaching life drawing in Harrogate (England's porn capital incidentally). Something in the air se...
14m Jul 13, 2015
14m
AVIATOR ADVENTURER & MECHANIC meet TRACEY CURTIS TAYLOR
Bird in a Biplane - Tracey Curtis Taylor Tracey Curtis Taylor was totally inspired to fly her biplane the same route as Mary Heath, who was the first woman in the UK to hold a professional pilot flying licence. Traceh flew from from Cape Town in South Africa up to Goodwood in England. In her own biplane The Spirit of Artemis. Hear her awe inspiring monolithic journey as she talks to Josephine ...
14m Jul 09, 2015
14m
Genital Mutilation "Was it Something That I Said" by EMMA CRAIGIE Author of the Week with Donna Freed
Genital Mutilation "What Was Never Said" by EMMA CRAIGIE Author of the Week with Donna Freed What Was Never Said is a young adult novel about 15 year old Zahra who is determined to save herself and her younger sister Sam Sam from the threat of female genital mutilation. “An important, unsensational, beautifully written story that deserves to be read. The issue is dealt with head-on but the la...
27m Jul 07, 2015
27m
How SHY are YOU? Find OUT HERE with Sian Prior on GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Josephine Pembroke
How SHY are YOU? with Sian Prior on GORGEOUS GOSSIP Sian Prior gives us ways to get over that terrible feeling of walking into a crowded room. Sian is a journalist and broadcaster, she has a second career as a musician and recording artist. She lives in Melbourne Australia. Sian is talking about her Memoir - SHY and how she is now an expert on shyness. www.sianprior.com @sianprior LOVE LOVE...
24m Jul 06, 2015
24m
PHENOMENAL PEOPLE – INTERVIEW FOR RADIO GORGEOUS BY NICKI BANNERMAN
Nominate A Woman Who Inspired YOU! PHENOMENAL PEOPLE – INTERVIEW FOR RADIO GORGEOUS BY NICKI BANNERMAN Nicki Bannerman talks with Shakespeare and TV actress Victoria Moseley and poet and author Malika Booker at the Phenomenal People live theatre performance event. A pop-up live performance event called Phenomenal People celebrated stories about women in society with an interactive digital gar...
23m Jul 01, 2015
23m
Virginia Ironside - Yes! I Can Manage, Thank You! AUTHOR OF THE WEEK with Josephine Pembroke
Virginia Ironside - Yes! I Can Manage, Thank You! AUTHOR OF THE WEEK with Josephine Pembroke Virginia Ironside - Yes! I Can Manage, Thank You! Not to mention the mad dog and the crazy new neighbour. And then there's the lump, a frightening symptom of...what? Marie is back, courting laughter and disaster in equal measure. In her own inimitable style, she's getting older...and loving every minut...
19m Jun 30, 2015
19m
Write a Romantic Short Story and have it Broadcast! THE SOPHIE KING PRIZE
Love Second Time Around – write a romantic short story and have it broadcast! THE SOPHIE KING PRIZE for AUTHORS, GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Josephine Pembroke and Sophie King. Sophie King gives away her hard earned secrets to us about how to write that book we all believe we have in us. This annual romantic fiction competition aims to discover a great new romance short story. This year, entrants mu...
7m Jun 30, 2015
7m
Vitamin B12 Expert Sally Pacholok on Gorgeous Wellbeing with Nicki Bannerman on Radio Gorgeous
Nicki Bannerman talks with Sally Pacholok who is an extraordinary nurse. In 1985 Sally diagnosed herself with herself with a lack vitamin B12, after her doctors had failed to identify her condition. As a result, she is passionate about the need to educate the public about the dangerous consequences of this hidden and all-too-common disease. The right amount of Vitamin B12 can heal - listen to h...
17m Jun 24, 2015
17m
Mrs Hemingway with Author Naomi Wood with Donna Freed GORGEOUS BOOK CLUB
For our very first Radio Gorgeous Book Club, we chose lovely Naomi Wood and her wonderful book Mrs. Hemingway which tells the sometimes overlapping story of the four wives of one of the 20th Century's most influential and famous writers, Ernest Hemingway. Join us for a great read. #women #bookclub #discussion http://naomiwood.com/category/mrs-hemingway/ LOVE BOOKS? Then sign up to us at www....
51m Jun 24, 2015
51m
Ingrid von Oelhafen, Hitler's Forgotten Children: My Life inside the Lebensborn with Donna Freed
The Nazis didn't invent genocide but their clinical approach is enduringly horrifying. Less known but perhaps even more chilling was the Lebensborn project founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935 to create an Aryan super race. When the programme of racially pure young women and German soldiers didn't increase the birthrate enough, the project was extended to include children that looked Aryan from ...
50m Jun 23, 2015
50m