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The Working Girls of Soho – Saucy Tales of Notorious Women – Songs & Stories A fabulous cabaret celebrating Soho’s glorious past. Featuring the club runners, strippers, whores and thieves with song and stories. Josephine Pembroke of Pussies Galore talks about her sell out show featuring the female club runners, strippers, whores and thieves from…

Josephine reveals all in this candid interview about the female wild bohemians, whores, thieves and nightclub queens of London Soho’s outrageous past. TICKETS FOR NEXT SHOW IN LONDON https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-working-girls-of-soho-saucy-tales-of-notorious-women-songsstories-tickets-461807046307 “Wit, charm and plenty of sauce, simply a fabulous show.” Sophie Parkin, Author of The Colony Room Club 1948-2008 “Josephine brings Soho in all its seedy,…

Ex- Sohoite cabaret chanteuse Josephine Pembroke talks to Jo Good on BBC London about living in Soho in the 80’s, Pussies Galore and more.  #JosephinePembroke #Soho #Cabaret  TICKETS FOR NEXT SHOW IN LONDON https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-working-girls-of-soho-saucy-tales-of-notorious-women-songsstories-tickets-461807046307  

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, which has just been featured in the Christine Keeler TV series. Murray’s Cabaret Club was taken over in…

Miss Hope Springs  Josephine goes behind the sequins and the grease paint (read: Flora!) to meet the real, live, back-from-Vegas Miss Hope Springs! See Miss Hope Springs at her monthly show at  Crazy Coqs  https://www.brasseriezedel.com/crazy-coqs Follow https://twitter.com/followmisshope @followmisshope  FB https://www.facebook.com/misshopesprings/ LOVED THIS? Go to www.radiogorgeous for even MORE….

  Marti Webb tells us about her career from 60’s till now from Nancy in Oliver to Eva Peron in Evita and more.                       Marti Webb returns to Crazy Coqs singing songs from her                      musical shows and recordings on Tues 15, Wed 16 &                      Thurs 17 March, 2016 at 8 pm. Tickets £30 contact: https://www.brasseriezedel.com/crazy-coqs …

    John Standing Sings Noel Coward NOEL & COEL   Podcast Length: 17 Minutes 19 seconds 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…

Queen of HAIR – Annabel Leventon at Crazy Coqs Annabel Leventon is a true 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…

  My Stubborn Tongue by Anna Fishbeyn – The story of the girl who refuses to be defined by her origins (Russian in America, Jewish in Russia, poor little immigrant), this cabaret style show is told through Russian and American songs and dances from the 1980’s. That’s Entertainment: My Stubborn Tongue written and performed by Anna…

Betty May the Musical on That’s Entertainment on Radio Gorgeous  Betty started to take cocaine on her honeymoon, cabaret danced drunkenly her way to notoriety, hung out at the Cafe Royal was a true Soho bohemian. Playwright, musician and performer Celine Hispache was inspired by Betty May, the “Tiger Woman” and wrote Betty May the…

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 21.47 This weeks GORGEOUS GOSSIP our guest is VICTORIA SADLER who was an internal auditor in the City of London who took up burlesque dancing – swapping daytime suits for pink sequins, spangles and feathers in the evening. We are talking about Burlesque dancing which does involve striptease….

Spectator Magazine’s Mary Killen tells us about the pioneering childbirth guru Betty Parsons. Donna Freed talks to performance artist and cult cabaret diva, Ursula Martinez about her provocative new show. Combining stand up, live art and character comedy, ‘My Stories, Your Emails’ is about the responses she received after her infamous ‘Hanky Panky’ routine, after…

Donna Freed talks to performance artist and cult cabaret diva, Ursula Martinez about her provocative new show. Combining stand up, live art and character comedy, ‘My Stories, Your Emails’ is about the responses she received after her infamous ‘Hanky Panky’ routine, after it was illicitly posted online. We talked to Ursula about art, fame, control,…

Josephine talks to Michele Hanson about her wonderfully evocative memoir What the Grown-ups Were Doing. We’re introduced to pets (past and present!), and find out that behind the suburban respectability of 1950s Ruislip, there lurked a world of oddball characters, unhappy marriages, hidden anxieties and suspected salacious goings on. Actress Siân Phillips’ CBE discusses her…

Veteran stage actress Siân Phillips CBE discusses her cabaret show, early career and current views on marriage!  Siân began performing cabaret after a brilliant run in Pam Gems’ play Marlene where she recreated Marlene Dietrich last cabaret performance. She’s toured around the world, and was greeted in New York with the headline, “No more Marlene, just Siân…