MAN WEEK: David Reynolds' Slow Road to San Francisco with Donna Freed
Ride shotgun with David Reynolds as he meanders across the USA on Route 50 from coast to coast seeking fellowship and IPA. David and his trusty auto-steed, Harpo, are the perfect companions for these days of armchair travel: they get lost so you don't have to. Often called 'The Loneliest Road in America,' Route 50 is a lot less so when accompanied by David Reynolds.  @MuswellPress @Radio_Gorge...
28m Nov 26, 2020
28m
Berkoff’s Women, with Linda Marlowe LIVE STREAMING directed by comedian Josie Lawrence
Linda Marlowe trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.  Linda has a long with writer and director Steven Berkoff includes his plays Greek, Decadence, East, The Trial and Metamorphosis, Steven has described her as his muse.  Linda has been in many plays, films and TV you may remember her as as  he matriarch Sylvie Carter in EastEnders.  Linda is putting on a show very soon whic...
28m Nov 12, 2020
28m
Betsy Bonner, The Book of Atlantis Black with Donna Freed
Betsy Bonner's sister Atlantis Black went missing and was found dead in a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico. She was 31 years old. Betsy set out to do what no one else in Atlantis' life did: find out what happened to her sister. How did she go from being a promising musician in New York to that hotel room in Mexico?  The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing, by Betsy Bonner...
30m Nov 08, 2020
30m
Radio Honey, by Tara Arkle is set in an all women's Radio Station! With Josephine Pembroke
Tara Arkle has found out what she really wants to do - write. Being the daughter of super talented parents Anthony Newley and Joan Collins, meant it took a while for Tara to know her true direction. Now very happily settled in the West Country of England, as well as writing Tara supports her local women's refuge by organising a yearly march on Eliminate Violence For Women Day.  Please see here...
28m Nov 06, 2020
28m
The Happy Menopause - Smart Nutrition to Help You Flourish by Jackie Lynch with Radio Gorgeous
The menopause can be daunting and keeping feeling balanced is the key to happiness. Nutritional therapist Jackie Lynch gives us wise advice at this time when you can suffer with many debilitating symptons. https://www.well-well-well.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/WellWellWellUK/  #Menopause #RadioGorgeous #50+
21m Oct 14, 2020
21m
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals by E. Foley & B.Coates with Donna Freed
Elizabeth and Beth tell us exciting and amusing feminist slants on Goddesses. They talk about Athena, Medusa and The Furies. The very ancient Goddesses often have wild, dark pasts; more like real women, don't be afraid of to use everything you have to get what you want.  #Goddesses #RadioGorgeous #Feminism 
21m Oct 07, 2020
21m
The Glorious Guinness Girls - Three Sisters. One Shared Destiny. By Emily Hourican with Josephine Pembroke
The Guinness family are as close to Irish royalty as we get and the glorious Guinness Girls probably garnered as many column inches as actual princesses back in their day. Launched as Debutantes in the roaring 20s the sisters quickly became the darlings of the Bright Young Things. The Glorious Guinness Girls - Three Sisters. One Shared Destiny. By Emily Hourican is published by Headline #Radi...
16m Oct 01, 2020
16m
Fancy your own coffee business? SARAH TUCKER talks about Curious Roo
Have you always dreamt about owning your own coffee shop? Sarah Tucker went on a barista training course to find out if she had what it takes. #Coffee #RadioGorgeous #Foodie https://www.curiousroo.com/
9m Sep 24, 2020
9m
SEX and the City of Ladies, Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia & Catherine the Great by LISA HILTON
#SexandtheCityofLadies #RadioGorgeous #History  Josephine Pembroke welcomes back on to Radio Gorgeous Lisa Hilton who is a biographer, art historian and author of the uber glamourous best selling Maestra novels. Lisa lives mostly in Venice with her daughter and today she talks about Sex and The City of Ladies. Sex and the City of Ladies by Lisa Hilton is published by TLS Books
14m Sep 22, 2020
14m
Other Girls Like Me by Stephanie Davies, one woman's coming of age at Greenham Common
Stephanie broke away from her long term boyfriend and went to live in the all women camp Greenham Common in Berkshire in the 80s. The women's wildness, irreverence and freedom influenced Stephanie greatly and she finally found out who she was. And Other Girls Like Me, is up for an award, see below to enter: Other Girls Like Me: A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book of September 2020 Finali...
19m Sep 01, 2020
19m
Those Who are Loved by Victoria Hislop, Victoria discovered a prison island for communists in Greece and discovered dark secrets.
This novel is out NOW as a paperback, it was delayed due to Covid.  The gripping new novel by Sunday Times number one best seller Victoria Hislop is set against the backdrop of the German occupation of Greece, the subsequent civil war and a military dictatorship, all of which left deep scars.    Themis is part of a family bitterly divided by politics and, as a young woman, her fury with those...
27m Aug 03, 2020
27m
CYNTHIA MOSS with CORINNA McSHANE on pioneering elephant research, Echo films and 50 yrs in the African bush
To honour her 80th birthday, Dr Cynthia Moss talks to Corinna about how growing up in the USA inspired a love of nature, leading her to spend five decades in the Kenyan bush.    Many of you will recognise Cynthia from the award-winning films shown on the BBC, PBS and Animal Planet, about the female elephant matriarch Echo, which she presented alongside David Attenborough. Cynthia explains how...
27m Jul 24, 2020
27m
Henley headliner Hao Zi Yoh with Corinna McShane on her journey to becoming an award winning concert pianist - featuring an exclusive performance!
Many of us have been missing live concerts and recitals, so it’s wonderful that the Henley Festival is producing a digital show. Corinna talks to one of the headliners, Hao Zi Yoh about her journey to becoming a concert pianist - from playing the Carnegie Hall aged 12, moving from Malaysia to Germany at 14 and finding freedom to practice different pieces during lockdown in London. Listen to Ha...
24m Jul 04, 2020
24m
Women of Steel - The feisty factory sisters who helped win the war
The last national crisis before Coronavirus was the Second world War, everybody was expected to do their bit. Men went to war and women were conscripted to do “mans work” however dirty, noisy and dangerous. Today we talked to the Sheffield based Journalist Michelle Rawlins who has written a book celebrating The feisty factory sisters who helped win the war – WOMEN of STEEL which  published by H...
23m Jun 26, 2020
23m
I Made A Mistake by Jane Corry....It started with a kiss. And Ended in Murder.
What happens when you bump into a drop dead gorgeous ex boyfriend? And your marriage is a little dull and there is a part of you that never, ever completely got over your first love ? Josephine chats to Jane Corry about her latest thriller, working in a men's prison and how tattoos can hinder a career as an extra on TV and film. SPECIAL OFFER: I Made a Mistake is available on Kindle for 99p at ...
21m Jun 08, 2020
21m
Mud, Maul, Mascara, Catherine Spencer Captain of Englands Women's Rugby Team for 3 years with Josephine Pembroke
Catherine Spencer has written a book about her life and most importantly when she was the captain of the England women's rugby team for three years. She scored eighteen tries for England, won six of the eight Six Nations competitions she took part in, and captained her team to three championship titles, a European cup, two Nations Cup tournament victories and the World Cup final held on home so...
24m Mar 05, 2020
24m
Gorgeous Curiosities: Viktor WYND The Unnatural History Museum
Curiouser and curiouser - it's not MAN WEEK and yet we present Viktor Wynd, writer, artist and pataphysicist? Dear listener, we couldn't resist! Viktor Wynd takes Donna Freed on a tour of his Hackney museum, The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art and Unnatural Science. The walk-in curio cabinet is crammed with all manner of two-headed, many-limbed creatures great and small, bugs, butte...
35m Mar 04, 2020
35m
Rosanna Amaka explores the redemptive powers of love and hope in The Book of Echoes
Rosanna Amaka spent 20 years writing her haunting and powerful debut. The Book of Echoes tells the intertwining stories of Michael in Brixton and Ngozi in Nigeria. The book explores the legacy of slavery and colonialism and the dissolution of communities. Despite and partially due to devastation, hope and love emerge as powerful and poetic forces.  @DoubledayUK  @RosannaAmaka @Radio_Gorgeous
22m Mar 02, 2020
22m
Want to be cured quickly? SUSAN HEPBURN Hypnotherapist with Sarah Tucker GORGEOUS WELLBEING
Susan Hepburn is regarded as one of the top hypnotherapists in the world, having had more than three decades of experience, Sarah Tucker highly recommends her.  She specialises in weight loss and addiction, but for those of you, like Sarah, who feel they need help with self sabotaging patterns, it is a therapy which works fast.  http://susanhepburnclinics.com/ #Wellbeing #RadioGorgeous #Hypnoth...
9m Feb 28, 2020
9m
DRESSED FOR WAR the story of the Vogue Editor Audrey Withers from the blitz to the swinging 60’s by Julie Summers with Josephine Pembroke AUTHOR OF THE WEEK
#Fashion #RadioGorgeous #Vogue Author Julie Summers tells us about a woman who was the Editor of Vogue over the turbulent war years of World War Two, Audrey Withers. Audrey's drive and vision changed Vogue forever creating, a free thinking, vital fashion magazine for women. We hear about Audrey's early years and her relationship with the war photographer Lee Miller and Condé Nast the US magazin...
45m Feb 26, 2020
45m
How to attract love without sacrificing success with top coach SAMI WUNDER on Radio Gorgeous with Josephine Pembroke
As a very successful business woman herself Sami Wunder found keeping a man difficult. Sami realised that she must change her work place attitude to attract love and romance into her life. Hear how you can do it too! Sami is officially the modern diva's love coach. https://samiwunder.com/ #Relationships #Dating #RadioGorgeous 
25m Feb 25, 2020
25m
FASHIONOPOLIS - The Price of Fast Fashion & The Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas with Josephine Pembroke
Whether we are interested in fashion or not, society dictates that we should wear clothes, clothes are made by someone, they are made of a fabric, and what happens to our old clothes?  Today I am welcomed onto Radio Gorgeous a woman who has found written a masterful book answering all these questions and more, she is Dana Thomas and she is the author of Gods & Kings and the New York times bests...
50m Feb 18, 2020
50m
MIKAELA ELLIOTT - WOMAN WHO HELPS YOU TO 'OPTIMISE CAREER POWER' through LINKEDIN with Sarah Tucker
Sarah Tucker talks to Mikaela Elliott, founder of We Aspire  - a Career Coaching Consultancy.  Mikaela has been headhunted and approached for every role she has had because of the power of her brand. She has worked for some of the biggest brands in the industry - LinkedIn, Uber, Michael Page & JLL, alongside various successful startups - Beamery, DeverellSmith & Rungway. She explains how she wi...
16m Feb 14, 2020
16m
Warriors, Witches, Women - Mythology's Fiercest Females by Kate Hodges with Josephine Pembroke AUTHOR OF THE WEEK
Today we are talk to Kate about rediscovering 50 fierce females from mythology, fairy tales, folklore and legends. Kate Hodges is a journalist who has written for The Face, NME and The Guardian, with stunning pictures by the illustrator Harriet Lee-Merrion. Buy the book (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Warriors-Witches-Women-Celebrating-mythologys/dp/178131926X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=kate+hodges+warriors...
22m Feb 04, 2020
22m
Claire Paphitis Ayurvedic Consultant who tells us that modern science is catching up to the ancient laws of Ayurveda GORGEOUS WELLBEING with DONNA FREED
Claire Paphitis is a fully qualified Ayurvedic Consultant who trained with Dr Deepika Rodrigo one of the foremost Ayurvedic Doctors in Europe.  Having healed herself from illness through Ayurveda, Claire founded The Ayurveda Coach in 2019. She now treats patients at her clinic in Surrey and at Alma Deli in Belgravia. Here, in conversation with Alma projects CEO Priyanka Lugani, Claire demystifi...
37m Jan 27, 2020
37m
How to make your own Sauerkraut - The easy, tasty & cheap natural probiotic with Lucy Ogilvie Grant
Lucy has found making sauerkraut is somewhere between witchcraft and gardening. She makes giant jars of bubbling fermented, pro-biotic ketchup and sauerkraut. Lucy does not just use cabbage, Lucy uses organic vegetables of every colour. The health benefits are numerous, vitamins are stronger and it is really good for lower gut health. Contact: MeonKraut follow on Instagram https://www.instagram...
12m Jan 27, 2020
12m
THESE GIRLS present: Bible John, Written by Caitlin McEwan A DARK PLAY on at The Vaults, London GORGEOUS ENTERTAINMENT
Lizzie Manwaring director of the play "Bible John" (last shown at Edinburgh Festival). Lizzie talks about this dark unsolved case featuring women who went out for a good night out dancing, which ended in horror. Set in Scotland in the late 1960 the play is partly a retelling of one of Scotland’s darkest unsolved crimes, and partly an interrogation into the ethics of true crime as entertainment,...
25m Jan 27, 2020
25m
Ghillie Basan's Spirt and Spice - a redefinition of Scottish food paired with whisky GORGEOUS FOOD with Donna Freed
Ghillie delves into the Scottish larder, from salmon to venison and foods foraged from around her remote Scottish home - rowan berries and wood sorrel - and marries them with flavours collected from her travels around the world. As a lover of spices, she has imaginatively paired her delicious dishes with whisky for an imaginative taste and sensation journey. Ghillie has written over 40 books an...
11m Jan 26, 2020
11m
Want to lose weight without thinking about food? Try the JANE PLAN DIET, Gorgeous Wellbeing with Donna Freed
Tasty, nutritious, calorie controlled food delivered to your door. We meet Jane Michell who started cooking  food for friends and then created the super successful Jane Plan Diet. She tells us how easy it is and how she became a business woman in the food world. https://www.janeplan.com/ #Diets #Wellbeing #Radio Gorgeous 
19m Jan 24, 2020
19m
The Pocket Cheerleader - Your Badass Guide to Getting Moving by fitness expert Bangs Carey-Campbell with Josephine Pembroke
Can't motivate yourself to get moving? Meet Bangs a badass, non judgemental, anti fitness fad blogger and trainer who has written a pocket guide to getting us off our arses and moving. The Pocket Cheerleader is published by Unbound https://unbound.com/books/the-pocket-cheerleader/ Follow Twitter: https://twitter.com/BangsandaBun Insta: https://www.instagram.com/bangsandabun/ #Fitness #RadioGorg...
29m Jan 21, 2020
29m
Donna's Scandalous birth mother story on NBC & pendant comp winner GORGEOUS GOSSIP on Radio Gorgeous
Imagine finding out that both your birth parents were so in love that they faked a death and running away to Spain seemed a logical idea. Hear Donna from Radio Gorgeous tell us how she was on Today on NBC last week to tell the world her shocking adoption story. And we announce the winner of the of the gorgeous turquoise and silver pendant in association with author Naomi E Lloyd's sci fi novel ...
17m Jan 16, 2020
17m
Welcome to the DETOX DECADE with Sarah Tucker GORGEOUS ESCAPES
Find out how you should and where in the world to detox with our very knowledgable travel and health presenter Sarah Tucker.  For those of you who haven't been on a juice retreat, the GLASSHOUSE in Essex is an ideal, cost effective, quality retreat which offers both the first time detoxer and well practiced one an excellent fit for purpose place to go without the faffing about at airports or tr...
34m Jan 15, 2020
34m
The Ultimate Late Starter - Beryl Hart Jazz Singer - aged 89 and out there! GORGEOUS ENTERTAINMENT on Radio Gorgeous
Life is very long when it came to Beryl to stop procrastinating and get on the stage and sing. Beryl made her sublime jazz album very recently too. Beryl left school at fourteen and worked in London's tin pan alley writing music scores. Music is in her blood, but life got in the way, and now aged 89 she's found the umph to take life by the horns and sing and scat away.  https://www.berylhart.co...
17m Jan 08, 2020
17m
Seventy Thousand Camels - A Motivational Survivor's Memoir by Angelica A Brewer with Josephine Pembroke
Today Josephine welcomed onto Radio Gorgeous  a very brave woman, who was brought up in Rome.  Angelica was abused as a child, had a theatrical demanding mother and had to learn to survive.  Angelica has been bulimic and has attempted suicide. We hear her story today. https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/autobiography/seventy-thousand-camels/ #Memoir #RadioGorgeous #AuthoroftheWeek  
22m Dec 19, 2019
22m
Diana David's delicious handmade chocolates with Donna Freed
Diana's Chocolates was the perfect solution: When Diana's family needed her to be at home as both carer and advocate for her son, she knew she had to give up her demanding office job. Her love of chocolates and desire to still work led her to make small batches of delicious and beautiful chocolates. The business has grown organically and was accidentally, but now by design both vegan and enviro...
13m Dec 04, 2019
13m
Murray's Cabaret Club, discovering Soho's secret by Benjamin Levy with Josephine Pembroke MAN WEEK on Radio Gorgeous
In 1960 there were over 200 strip clubs, clip joints and peep shows in Soho. But there was a classy, glamourous establishment which surpassed all others and that was Murray’s Cabaret Club in Beak Street, London W1. Murray’s Cabaret Club was taken over in 1933 by Percival Murray, it was famous for its gorgeous showgirls and dancers who wore hand-made sumptuous costumes by leading costume designe...
40m Dec 02, 2019
40m
Ladies, start your engines! The iconic cars of the swinging 60's come to life in Peter Grimsdale's High Performance
Man Week Special: Peter Grimsdale's High Performance with Donna Freed. The enduring style and substance of the Mini, the E Type Jaguar and the Land Rover have made them more lifestyle choices than mere cars. Peter Grimsdale, car fanatic, revs his engine in the telling of how these cars came to be and how we subsequently took over Formula One racing - notice the we! If there's winning to be had,...
26m Dec 01, 2019
26m
MAN WEEK SPECIAL: The Oldie Magazine Podcast with Ferdie Rous and Bettany Hughes discuss the Goddess of Love
In Venus & Aphrodite: History of a Goddess, Bettany Hughes delves into the origins of Aphrodite, Goddess of Love - born in Cypress and the product of blood, guts, incest, patricide, love, lust and sex. She not only is the emblem of love and sex but also our very thirst and drive for life. Through the ages, how Aphrodite has been perceived is a reflection and a projection of how women are demoni...
17m Nov 28, 2019
17m
Win a gorgeous white gold & turquoise pendant! Author Naomi E Lloyd talks about her sci-fi novel RELEASE & we meet Johan Louw top South African jeweller who made the prize
RELEASE - A PARANORMAL TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE (The Tandro Series) Donna talks to Naomi E Lloyd novelist about Release her first book in the Tandro series. You, dear listener get a chance to win a stunning white gold and turquoise pendant, on a silver chain, designed by Uwe Koetter. Naomi tells us about her novel and the powerful and transformational effect of stones, diamonds in particular and her...
35m Nov 27, 2019
35m
SPICE GIRLS, the story of the world’s greatest girl band by Sean Smith MAN WEEK on Radio Gorgeous with Josephine Pembroke
SPICE GIRLS, the story of the world’s greatest girl band with the UK's top celebrity biographer Sean Smith. Sean Smith tells us insider knowledge about how the most successful all girl group of all time managed to achieve superstardom.  SPICE GIRLS, the story of the world’s greatest girl band is published by Harper Collins.  #SpiceGirls #RadioGorgeous #ManWeek   
44m Nov 20, 2019
44m
Paul Joynson-Hicks started the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards to inspire engagement with the wildlife around us and aid conservation.
MAN WEEK SPECIAL: Wildlife photographer Paul Joynson-Hicks and interiors photographer Tom Sullam present the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Started when Paul felt defeated and depressed by reports of elephant poaching that discouraged rather than inflamed his desire to help conservation efforts. The awards, in conjunction with the Born Free Foundation, and then the resulting book, help rai...
22m Nov 17, 2019
22m
Get ahead catering for Christmas by Trufflhound Catering's Jo Buckingham with Donna Freed
 Jo Buckingham's  first career was in management consultancy but her passion was always food. She combines all the organisation, efficiency and client care from her first career with her love of cooking in her client-led, soup-to-nuts service.  Her team comes in, meets and greets, serves and then does all the clean up. Happy guests, happy hosts! She gives tips on how to (micro) manage your kitc...
22m Nov 09, 2019
22m
Helen Brocklehurst's love of an alternative route brings you the road lover's Puzzle Book
The AA British Road Map Puzzle Book: These highly-addictive brain games will make you a mapping mastermind, by Helen Brocklehurst with Donna Freed If the telly breaks at Christmas, have no fear, you do NOT have to go on that long, cold walk: gather round with the British Road Map Puzzle Book. Packed with history and the past glory of hand-drawn maps and directions sent to subscribers. The puzzl...
19m Nov 07, 2019
19m
YES will make your VAGINA happy! Organic lubricants, moisturisers & washes - meet the founders on GORGEOUS WELLBEING with Josephine Pembroke
Sarah Brooks and Susi Lennox are the founders of Yes, the organic intimacy company. The company was founded in 2003, Sarah is the chemist and Susi is the English graduate and together they have created groundbreaking certified organic products to give us better sex, more comfort and extra safe cleansing. They tell us about their products, their story and how to use Yes! Yes https://www.yesyesye...
39m Nov 06, 2019
39m
The Field Guide to (some of) The Peoples of the British Isles by Chelsea Renton Artist GORGEOUS LIVES with Josephine Pembroke
Cartoonist Chelsea describes to Josephine her hilarious illustrations in her new book featuring accurate observations of ladies who lunch, cougars, a single mother and the lifestyle shopkeeper. Chelsea's amusing book is stuffed full with all different types of people, which will keep you tickled for hours. Chelsea also tells us about her life as an artist in Lewes, East Sussex and how red wine ...
36m Nov 06, 2019
36m
December Rose, Singer/Songwriter on #MeToo & girls do get passes, when they wear glasses GORGEOUS ENTERTAINMENT on Radio Gorgeous
Singer/Songwriter December Rose chats with Victoria Pearson about her single 'Raise your voice' which raises awareness of the 'Me Too' movement. December and Victoria also talk about how beautiful women who wear glasses are.   #WomeninMusic #RadioGorgeous #GorgeousEntertainment 
33m Oct 29, 2019
33m
Priyanka Lugani's Alma Deli unites body and soul with plant-based, organic, sustainable and seasonal foods.
Walking into Alma Deli, Elizabeth Kinder thought she was entering a friend's kitchen. There is a central table, no cold foods on display - with the exception of a sumptuous blueberry cheesecake - and each and every dish is cooked to order. This sums up the ethos of Priyanka, her cafe, the children's activity areas and the research lab: 80% of immunity in in your intestine. She has learned, thro...
17m Oct 22, 2019
17m
Bestseller CATHY KELLY with Corinna McShane on her new novel, strong women, self-doubt & being a UNICEF Ambassador
Cathy talks to Corinna about her 20th novel The Family Gift and explains why her books always have strong female characters at their heart. Despite being a renowned bestselling author, Cathy speaks candidly about her own self-doubt and how “we read to know we’re not alone, that other people have felt pain and suffering.” Cathy explains why she is so passionate about her role as a UNICEF Irelan...
24m Oct 18, 2019
24m
Professor Michael Baum - Breast cancer Expert, explains all in the LATTE LOUNGE with Katie Taylor on Radio Gorgeous
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and we are also celebrating World Menopause Day, is on so who better to chat in The Latte Lounge with but Professor Michael Baum who not only is an eminent British surgical oncologist who specialises in breast cancer but also happens to be the father of Latte Lounge Founder, Katie Taylor. Today, Michael talks about Breast Cancer, HRT, Screening and his n...
54m Oct 15, 2019
54m
The Mother of the Brontes - When Maria met Patrick by Sharon Wright AUTHOR OF THE WEEK with Josephine Pembroke
Who was the Bronte's mother? How much influence did she have on them? Was she a writer herself? These are the questions I  asked author, journalist and native of Bradford, Sharon Wright. Sharon talks to Josephine about her illuminating book. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mother-Bront%C3%ABs-When-Maria-Patrick/dp/1526738481 Follow Sharon: https://twitter.com/TheSharonAgency #Brontes #Ra...
31m Oct 02, 2019
31m