BIDISHA - Asylum and Exile: The Hidden Voices of London 100 Authors on Radio Gorgeous
Author and broadcaster Bidisha's latest book, Asylum & Exile came out of her outreach work with asylum seekers and refugees in London. Through her teaching, she illicited beautiful, illuminating writing but more importantly she allows us to hear these unheard voices. Bidisha is one of those rare people with clear sight, about herself and those around her. #women #author #asylum #london @bidis...
33m Feb 18, 2015
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DAISY WAUGH - HONEYVILLE - 100 Authors on Radio GORGEOUS with Josephine Pembroke
Daisy Waugh returns to America for her latest novel, Honeyville. She tells Josephine that she really wanted to call it Snatchville for that is what the town was actually called. It was the only town in the West where prostitution was legal and is the background for her darkly atmospheric tale. #women #author #novel #history @dldwaugh http://www.daisywaugh.co.uk/ Want more author interviews?...
22m Feb 18, 2015
22m
KATIE FFORDE - A Vintage Wedding - 100 Authors on Radio Gorgeous with Donna Freed
Irrepressibly lovely Katie Fforde returned to Radio Gorgeous on the occasion of A Vintage Wedding. Between sips of champagne she tells us that her daughter and daughter-in-law were wonderful bridal inspirations. #women #romance #love #author @KatieFforde www.katiefforde.com/ SIGN UP for more Gorgeous author interviews... www.radiogorgeous.com
9m Feb 16, 2015
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VALERIE GROVE - The Lives & Loves of LAURIE LEE 100 Authors on Radio GORGEOUS
Journalist and author Valerie Grove delved into the correspondence and diaries of beloved author, poet and musician Laurie Lee. Lee created many myths about himself and Grove reveals, the sometimes more fascinating truths beneath the legend.Above is the devastatingly beautiful Lorna Wishart who was his muse. She was the woman who broke his heart when she ran off with artist Lucian Freud.#women ...
15m Feb 16, 2015
15m
Wannabee a Writer? JANE WENHAM JONES on 100 Authors Week on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
We love books and each week we bring you an Author of the Week. We have now racked up an impressive, if we say so ourselves, 100 Authors of the Week. In celebration, we cram this week's show with five more of them. Our gossip: We cannot resist - or at least Donna can't - a chance to bitch about Myleene Klass - stop making it so irresistable! Our guest: Writer Jane Wenham-Jones tells us how to...
21m Feb 15, 2015
21m
HOME COOKING BY Fabienne *FOOD SPECIAL* on Radio Gorgeous with DONNA FREED
Fabienne Viner-Luzzato couldn't escape cooking if she tried. Born of a Morrocan mother and Italian father and brought up in Paris, her childhood home was full of food and people, cooking and love which is what she shares through her own food. From catering to cooking lessons for divorced dads and children among others, Fabienne brings the warmth and flavours of the Mediterranean and North Afric...
19m Feb 11, 2015
19m
Ruth Rogers RIVER CAFE *FOOD Special* on Radio Gorgeous with Josephine Pembroke
Ruth Rogers MBE is the co founder of the Michelin starred The River Cafe. She opened the restaurant with Rose Gray in 1987. She took time, after a busy lunchtime service, to talk to our Josephine #women #ruthrodgers #food #restaurant http://rivercafe.co.uk/ Sign up for all the GORGEOUS news radiogorgeous.com
18m Feb 10, 2015
18m
FOOD WEEK Elisabeth Luard - European Peasant Cookery & AOTW on Radio Gorgeous with Josephine
Food writer, journalist and broadcaster Elisabeth Luard is as passionate about food as we are about moisturiser and speaks to our simple hearts with her encyclopedic knowledge of European Peasant Cookery. #women #food #author #cookery @elisabethluard elisabethluard.com/ Love this? Sign up for more PODCASTS for WOMEN radiogorgeous.com
28m Feb 10, 2015
28m
TOXIC Friends & Your FAVOURITE PUDDING Food Special GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Josephine & Donna
We are not Michael Winner but we embrace his elan: "I'm Michael Winner and I like my pudding first!" After Josephine and Donna debate the best and/or worst ingredients for toxic friendships, we get straight to pudding: you tell us your favourite puddings - and yes that means dessert! Voila: your just desserts! #women #friendship #food #puddings Keep up to date with all things GORGEOUS by join...
13m Feb 08, 2015
13m
ARTIST Susy Michie - APHORISMS at the Hospital Club LONDON
Artist Susy Michie is obsessed with pattern. Her powerful, intricately textured works are created with thousands of minuscule pencil marks. Josephine joins Susie at The Hospital Club for a private tour of her current exhibition. #women #art #drawing #design www.susanmichie.com @sumichieartist General Enquiries anna@sannegrundberg.com For more GORGEOUSNESS join our mailing list www.radiogor...
10m Feb 04, 2015
10m
Feel Good DIVORCE? Meet THE DIVORCE ALCHEMIST Emma Heptonstall on Radio Gorgeous
Divorce does not have to be synonymous with disaster. Emma Heptonstall an experienced legal advisor and family mediator has observed that women in particular come to the divorce process angry, confused and ill-informed. She can help guide you through the transformation process that is a divorce. #women #love #divorce #counselling http://www.emmaheptonstall.com/ Love GORGEOUS WELLBEING? Sign ...
18m Feb 03, 2015
18m
Screw The FAIRYTALE & The Sugar DADDY Diaries HELEN CROYDON on AOTW with Donna & Josephine
Immersive journalist and author Helen Croydon dropped in on Radio Gorgeous to talk about love 21st Century style. Her first book, born on her own experiences with Sugar Daddy websites, chronicles flights of fancy with wealthy, older men while her second explores relationships outside the married with kids model. Sugar Daddy Diaries: When a Fantasy Became an Obsession Screw the Fairytale: A Mo...
25m Feb 03, 2015
25m
The Separation – IRISH DIVORCE LEGALISED in 1995 on GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Donna & Josephine
00:00 - Gorgeous Gossip 09:35 - The Separation Welcome to our Happy Valentine's Divorce Special! Baby It's cold outside - Josephine and Donna are on the sofa with their loved ones: The Box Set. Josephine is mad on Madmen and Donna shows her age by calling Brideshead Revisited a boxset. We dismiss Scandi noir in favour of gritty French crime procedural, Spiral. Can't quite tell if Donna has a ...
22m Feb 01, 2015
22m
Feel GORGEOUS Zero Balance Massage Expert CHERIE DUIR HOWE on GORGEOUS HEALTH & WELLBEING
Specialist Massage Therapist, Cherie Duir-Howe incorporates various massage techniques in her unique, painless bodywork. While she treats everyone, she is sought out by those who use their bodies for work from athletes to actors to acrobats. Josephine, a pampering enthusiast, checks it out.@CherieDuirHowe @TheParkClub#women #wellbeing #massage #health Find out more about Cherie http://www.thep...
20m Jan 27, 2015
20m
Every Thing I Never Told You by CELESTE NG - Author of the Week with Donna Freed on GORGEOUS READS
Celeste Ng - Celeste Ng's debut novel, Everything I Never Told You starts with the death of the favorite child of a Chinese American family. The story moves back in time and generations to see the hopes and expectations that led to this tragic point. A New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Everything I Never Told You was also chosen as Amazon's #1 Best Book of 2014....
23m Jan 26, 2015
23m
GORGEOUS PREDICTIONS: Your Weekly TAROTSCOPE with Laura Boyle
Welcome Radio Gorgeous Lovers, Here is your weekly Tarotscope for the January 26 created by International Psychic Clairvoyant Laura Boyle. Listen as Laura talks you thorough the horoscope starting at Capricorn. #women #psychic #tarot #horoscope Laura maybe contacted on www.lauraboyle.com FOR MORE PODCASTS got to www.radiogorgeous.com
8m Jan 25, 2015
8m
Tribal Wives, Page 3 & New Veg! on GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Josephine & Donna
Josephine and Donna: 0:00 Charlie Brades on Tribal Wives 10:15 Donna displays an undo fondness for a new found brassica: the flower sprout! Josephine and Donna discuss the recent demise of the Page 3 breastathon. They are joined by "Tribal Wife" for a time, Charlie Brades.The young feminist lived with a goat herding tribe in Turkey and came away filled with kinship and admiration for the wome...
22m Jan 25, 2015
22m
Italy - VERONA & Travel Trends GORGEOUS ESCAPES with Sarah Tucker
Our intrepid traveler Sarah Tucker returns to Verona after 30 years in search of romance and is pleasantly surprised at its unspoiled charm. Verona has something for everyone: fantastic food, lovely castles, a rebellious history and fun for kids as well as Romeo and Juliet style romance. And what are the travel trends for 2015 are you a hip when it comes to where to go and what to do? #women #...
23m Jan 21, 2015
23m
LIVE without PAIN? Somatics with TANYA FITZPATRICK - Health & Wellbeing RADIO GORGEOUS
Tanya Fitzpatrick says "Back-pain treatment done TO you masks pain. Treatment done BY you removes it". Tanya is the dynamic, exuberant doyenne of spine alignment. She explains the system of somatics and teaches Donna to ease her own back pain. #women #health #therapy #somatics www.alignsomatics.com Follow: @Alignsomatics THANKS to our sponsors GOLD COLLAGEN® Interested in health & wellbein...
20m Jan 20, 2015
20m
Anne Zouroudi THE FEAST OF ARTEMIS - Author of the Week with Donna Freed
Anne Zouroudi was a high flying executive until she had her Shirley Valentine moment and married the sexy Greek fisherman she met on holiday. When she moved back to England as a single mother, she created teh Greek Detective - Hermes Doktoros who travels the Greek islands, solving mysteries and righting wrongs. The series of 7 books based on the the deadly sins perfectly evoke the Greek isles. ...
24m Jan 19, 2015
24m
Your Weekly TAROTSCOPE on GORGEOUS PREDICTIONS with Laura Boyle
Imagine a free weekly horoscope read to you by an international psychic, clairvoyant and tarot reader? Well it's here and now, have a listen. Starting with Capricorn going thorough all the signs and finishing with Sagittarius. Good luck love from the horny old rams Josephine and Donna x #women #tarot #psychic #horoscope www.lauraboyle.com LOVING ALL THINGS GORGEOUS? Sign up to Gorgeous Mail ...
9m Jan 19, 2015
9m
Do you ever feel EXCLUDED? & Munitions Workers – OUT OF THE CAGE a new play on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
Josephine & Donna's Week: 00.00 Meet actors from Out of The Cage: 7.27 Surprise, surprise: Josephine fell off the wagon but only to the tune of two glasses but Donna still gets to say 'I told you so!' Josephine also finds some long lost relatives who are just like her! Donna talks to Milly Finch and Lindsay Fraser, two of the 8 women cast of Out of the Cage which tells the story of female mun...
20m Jan 18, 2015
20m
Barefoot Massage, Reviving Stretch & Healing with SUZANNE WATERWORTH Gorgeous Wellbeing
Therapist Suzanne Waterworth works from the premise that "we all want to be healthy, fit, happy, be able to move freely and feel satisfied with our lives.These things are more interconnected than they seem and I love to help people work towards these goals." She gives Josephine a taste of the good life with a barefoot massage. #women #massage #well-being #health suzanne.waterworth@yahoo.co.uk...
11m Jan 13, 2015
11m
My RELATIONSHIP with FOOD by LISA ROUKIN - Food & Drink with Josephine Pembroke
Lisa Roukin battled eating disorders for many years until she radically changed her relationship with food. She shares her '100 recipes to nourish the mind, body and soul' with Josephine. If her raw chocolate brownies are anything to go by, you will have a great relationship with her food as well! #women #food #well-being #healthBuy the book or find out more www.myrelationshipwithfood.com/ Fo...
20m Jan 12, 2015
20m
Wives of Stephen Hawking & Psychic Predictions 2015 with LAURA BOYLE on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
00.00 Wives of Stephen Hawking 10.03 2015 predictions with Laura Boyle After some truly catty gossip about Stephen Hawking, his wives and the fact that you can be as smart as you like but a man is a man is a man, we look to the future with the help of Laura Boyle. The spiritual medium and tarot consultant reveals what's next for Ruth and David in The Archers, Benedict Cumberbatch and the year...
21m Jan 11, 2015
21m
TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE & THE LIFE OF OTHERS with Jacqueline Hurst Life Coach - Health & Wellbeing
Clinical Hypnotherapist and Master Life Coach Jacqueline Hurst wants to transform lives through The Life Class, her online life coach training course. Her credentials for transformation couldn't be higher as she pulled herself out of homelessness and addiction and set herself on a course of education, recovery and empowerment. She has created a course which will transform your life and the life...
16m Jan 07, 2015
16m
Marina Keegan - The Opposite of Loneliness AOTW with Tracey Keegan & Beth Macnamara
A talented writer who had interned at both the Paris Review and The New Yorker, Marina Keegan had also worked for literary critic Harold Bloom while at Yale University. One of her plays had been accepted at a major festival and she had a staff job waiting for her at The New Yorker. She was young and desperate to make a difference but she tragically died at the age of 22 just 5 days after her gr...
36m Dec 17, 2014
36m
Pinny Girls, Frontline Women & shenanigans on GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Donna & Josephine
Donna confesses to enforced fitness due to lying about how many sit ups (100? REALLY?) she can do for an extras job - pathetic! Next we introduce a little known but much celebrated holiday: Rompadon! Josephine and Donna are self professed practitioners of the holiday that involves lots of excess between the end of November and the middle of January - you may already be a card carrying member. T...
20m Dec 14, 2014
20m
Chocolate Lover? The Little Book of Chocolat with Fran Warde & Joanne Harris on Radio GORGEOUS
Little Book of Chocolat To celebrate Joanne Harris' sensually descriptive trilogy Chocolat, she and Fran Ward collaborated on a delicious book of chocolate lore and recipes from around the world. A chocoholic's perfect fix! #women #chocolate #recipes www.joanne-harris.co.uk/books/the-little-book-of-chocolat/ www.amazon.co.uk/Fran-Warde/e/B001HD0SJW @franwarde
21m Dec 10, 2014
21m
Alix Christie - Gutenberg's Apprentice - Author of the Week with Donna Freed on Literary Lusts
AOTW: Alix Christie Gutenberg's Apprentice Alix Christie, printer, journalist and writer, talks to Donna at the Buck's Club, which was inspiration for the Drones Club whose preeminent member was PG Wodehouse who created Bertie Wooster. The Gutenberg printing press is the first tech start-up with all the attendant tension that we have become used to (think The Social Network). The horn heard in...
25m Dec 09, 2014
25m
Divine Feminines & Perfume Society/ Josephine & Donna on GORGEOUS GOSSIP Radio Gorgeous
GORGEOUS GOSSIP: oo.45 PERFUME SOCIETY : 6.31 GG: While Donna is under the weather, Josephine is out tripping the light fantastic and picking up must have Feminine Divine paintings for Radio Gorgeous. Jo Fairley of the Perfume Society has come out with The Perfume Bible, a gorgeous and informative book to ignite the senses. We were impressed with her tips on how to get a friend to change the...
19m Dec 09, 2014
19m
Cohousing? Could you do it? Meet Springhill Residents & Make up your own mind with PAULA COSTON
Ever thought that for you, conventional family or ‘community’ living isn’t working? On the edge of a steeply valleyed town in the heart of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds rise a cluster of timber-framed buildings reminiscent of Scandinavia. The inhabitants of Springhill are inspired by a lifestyle slowly spreading in a worldwide movement called cohousing. The aim is to be more neighbourly than in...
27m Dec 03, 2014
27m
Kristin Hannah's GORGEOUS LIFE as an American BEST SELLING AUTHOR with Donna Freed AOTW
Kristin Hannah - Author of the Week on Literary Lusts Donna has tea at the Corinthia Hotel in London with best selling American author Kristin Hannah.They swap stories about writing with their mothers and their own maternal fears as well as dealing with Dad's dating. kristinhannah.com Kristin has 105,249 likes on FACEBOOK! www.facebook.com/AuthorKristinHannah Book lover? Then sign up to GORG...
26m Dec 03, 2014
26m
Tracey Bloom - I Will Marry George Clooney (by Christmas) & Gorgeous Gossip talks DOGS & CATS
Our week: 30.00 Tracey Bloom: 10.40 Josephine is not unique in envying the life of her dog but not for the reasons you might think. Listener be warned: fat lumps and manicures are involved! Donna is unconvinced. The indomitable Tracy Bloom returns to Gorgeous Gossip for a chat about her timely - if your name is Amal - book: I Will Marry George Clooney (...by Christmas). tracybloom.com/ http...
23m Dec 01, 2014
23m
Vivienne Westwood & Ian Kelly – MAN Author of the Week on Radio Gorgeous
Author of the Week: Ian Kelly is an award winning author and actor and dapper dan who spent a year with Vivienne Westwood, co-writing her authorised biography. www.viviennewestwood.com/ coolearth.org/ . iankelly.net LOVE this podcast? Support us sign up to GORGEOUS MAIL radiogorgeous.com
34m Nov 27, 2014
34m
Own That Guy in 60 Days - Dating GURU Blake Lavak MAN WEEK - Radio Gorgeous
Blake Lavak's Own That Guy in 60 Days is a dating guide for women. He councils us to take the bull by the horns or the tuna by the tail as it were. We push single gal Mandy Lax into the dating pool with Blake. NOTE: This is not so much a guide to romance as results and as always: results may vary! Warning this podcast has reaction forming content www.ownthatguyin60days.com @BlakeLavak Can't...
25m Nov 25, 2014
25m
MAN WEEK - EMLYN REES talks WOMEN & a very hungover caterpillar GORGEOUS GOSSIP
It's the Man Show! Donna gets rather overheated as she introduces us to Sadie Hawkins day, where the women do the asking - or chasing as the case may be. Josephine visits Planet of the Apes - or Gibralter. Our first guest on the Man Show is thriller writer, husband and writing partner, father and festival founder Emlyn Rees. He reveals the single most disgusting hangover cure EVER and the inspi...
28m Nov 24, 2014
28m
Agathe Sorel, Gay Weddings, & Jennifer Lawrence on GORGEOUS GOSSIP
Our Week: 00:26 Agathe Sorel: 11.06 Josephine has the invitation of the season to a Spanish seaside wedding held at a nudist beach, the brides arrived in matching dresses on a .... we can't ruin the surprise - listen and learn how it's done! Donna explores the question: just because you can, should you? as applied to naked celebrity photos and sexy selfies. In order to hold a retrospective o...
51m Nov 20, 2014
51m
Explore the YUKON in a Motorhome - GORGEOUS ESCAPES with Sarah Tucker
Intrepid Sarah Tucker and her 15 year old son visit the Yukon in her latest Gorgeous Escapes. First, Josephine has to figure out exactly where it is! Discover stunning natural beauty combined with super friendly hosts (Canadians!) www.sarahtucker @madasatucker Enjoyed this? Why not sign up at radiogorgeous.com #travel #radio #yukon #motorhome #escape #adventure #gorgeous
27m Nov 18, 2014
27m
Isabel Wolff GHOSTWRITTEN - Author of The Week on Literary Lusts with Donna Freed
Author of the Week: Man Booker prize winner Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North tells the story of the prisoners of war working on the Burma Death Railway but Isabel Wolff's Ghostwritten tells the story of Klara, one of the many Dutch colonials interred on Java during the Japanese occupation. It is told to her ghostwriter Jenni who has her own hidden past. Isabel also talks ab...
46m Nov 18, 2014
46m
LISA TSE - The Sorority Club, Brand Creator - Women Connector with Amanda Ruiz
Gorgeous Entrepreneurs: Amanda Ruiz talks to Lisa Tse, founder of The Sorority Club, an all female - and very feminine - private network of professional women. Lisa also has two other thriving businesses Opus Art and Lisa Tse Brand & Design Agency . Lisa is an artist at heart with a love for business listen to her talk here with Amanda Ruiz. Lisa Tse chose ALICIA KEYS : This Girl is on Fire fo...
21m Nov 16, 2014
21m
Andree's War by Francelle Bradford White GORGEOUS LIVES on Women at War Week on Radio GORGEOUS
Andree's War is the story Francelle Bradford White's mother who was a founding member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of Paris. She was passing documents under the Nazi's nose while working at Police Headquarters. Francelle wrote Andree's story as a way of connecting with her as Andree now has Alzheimer's.All proceeds of the book go to a charitable trust in Andree's name t...
42m Nov 11, 2014
42m
Juliet West - Before The Fall - Author of The Week with Josephine Pembroke on Literary Lusts
Working as a journalist, Juliet West uncovered the story of Before the Fall at the National Archives at Kew. Her heroine works at a cafe on the Isle of Dogs during WWI and has an affair with a man with "reserved occupation" and therefore unable to enlist as a soldier. The affair has tragic, public consequences. #WomenatWar#ww1 #war #ArmistaceDay www.julietwest.com @JulietWest14 LOVE this? N...
19m Nov 11, 2014
19m
Anne Sebba on Women at War & Gorgeous Gossip on the trials of Facebook & half term travel fun with Donna & Josephine
Don't be bitter, go on Twitter. Josephine sounds off on the destructive nature of Facebook. Donna has a Eurorail adventure. A bit long in the tooth for a gap year, no?And friend of Radio Gorgeous journalist and author Anne Sebba discusses women journalists and the frontline. And her new book about women in Paris in World War Two and how women can be empowered by war. #WomenatWar NEVER MISS A ...
30m Nov 09, 2014
30m
Feel Gorgeous Meet the SPA EXPERT Laura MacMillan Mandarin Oriental Spa Prague
Laura MacMillan, currently Spa Manager at the Mandarin Oriental Prague, trained as a therapist before transitioning into the management side of the business. She lets us in on the best treatments available. 10% off if your treatment at The Mandarin Oriental Prague Spa please mention RADIO GORGEOUS for your discount www.mandarinoriental.com/prague/hotel-offers/ @lmacmillanMOSPA Laura on Twitt...
11m Nov 06, 2014
11m
Rose Boyt - How's Your Father - Author of the Week with Donna Freed on Literary Lusts
Author of the Week: Rose Boyt Hows Your Father Rose Boyt initially wrote Hows Your Father while her own father, Lucian Freud, was alive but rewrote it after his death. Hows Your Father is the rollicking tale of four generations of a Hackney family as they lurch through a life of fierce love, drugs, booze, crime and poverty. Like Benefits Street without the lurid condescension. Watch Eastender...
42m Nov 04, 2014
42m
SEX Expert Emma Ziff & Oldie holidays GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Radio Gorgeous
CENSORED CONTAINS SEX & OLD PEOPLE Josephine and Donna review their week: Josephine explains why herding cats is a world easier than escorting 25 OAP's on a trip to France but there were some benefits in older admirers. Donna celebrates her husband's birthday with breakfast cocktails and then professes surprise at leaving the front door of her house open. You sent in questions for Relationshi...
32m Nov 03, 2014
32m
Dusty - An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend - By Karen Bartlett - Gorgeous Lives
Born to seemingly conventional parents - accountant father and Irish housewife mother - Dusty also seemed quite conventional and unremarkable until at 16 she transformed her look and launched herself on the world with determined, blond ambition. She was a pioneer of so much we now consider stereotypes: blonde bombshell singer with soul, demanding diva, cat loving lesbian and even married her gi...
31m Oct 22, 2014
31m
Lynn Barber - A Curious Career - Author of the Week on Literary Lusts with Josephine Pembroke
How to become a legendary 'celebrity' interviewer by Lynn Barber: poke your nose into everyone's business - the seamier the better, be seduced by a conman (as chronicled in the film An Education), sleep your way through Oxford, write about every sexual fetish for Penthouse without sounding like a gushing school girl. Then decide you hate everyone you interview and wait to be convinced. Why do t...
28m Oct 20, 2014
28m
Bosom Buddies, A Flower & An Earl on GORGEOUS GOSSIP Radio Gorgeous
GORGEOUS GOSSIP Josephine & Donna's Week A Flower & an Earl : 00.28 Pauline Giles founder of Bosom Buddies: 10.25 Josephine and Donna review their week: Josephine scared the pants off Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer and Donna - after cooing to our canine producer Kissie Moo - proves a crap car owner and gardener - no surprises there. Our Gorgeous Entrepreneurs presenter Amanda Ruiz interv...
25m Oct 19, 2014
25m