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Gill Hornby takes the community choir as the backdrop of her second novel. Gill brings together the disparate elements of a small town in crisis with a failing high street and closing businesses, empty nests and new divorces. Can the community choir bring them together and transform their lives, maybe even the town? Singing in…

    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…

  Our week: 00.30 Tracy 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…

  Vivienne Westwood Book with Ian Kelly   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

  Isabel Wolff GHOSTWRITTEN 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…

  CENSORED CONTAINS SEX & OLD PEOPLE Sex Expert advice from Emma Ziff: 15.25 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…

    HER by Harriet Lane A Novel about a TOXIC friendship “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…

MTV to Mecca Kristiane Backer 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…

Length: 23mins Frog Music Emma Donoghue From the sensational author of Room comes another astonishing tale set in the burlesque world of 1866 San Francisco. She has again used fact as a springboard for her glorious imagination. It starts with the murder (shot through a window) of Jenny, the trouser wearing, frog catcher. Another similarity with Room is motherhood…

Length: 38mins     Gorgeous Lives – Professor Joan Breton Connelly The Parthenon Enigma: A Journey Into Legend We have decided that Professor Connelly has it all: she couldn’t be smarter or prettier and she spends two thirds of the year swanning about New York and infecting young minds with her love of all things Ancient…

Karen Joy Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Author of the Week From the author of the wonderful The Jane Austen Book Club (with a plural narrator!!! – how fun is that?) is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Aside from the fun of saying the title is the nothing short of amazing read. The story…

Podcast length: 19:00 Author(s) of the week A GIRL WALKS into A BAR by HELENA .S. PAIGE Who doesn’t want to choose their own erotic destiny? Too often it’s not in your control but the three women behind A Girl Walks into a Bar, A Girl Walks into a Wedding and coming soon, A Girl…

Show length: 23:02 Moving pictures, film, cinema: it’s all entertainment. Josephine and Donna take a trip down memory lane to the darkened seats of the movie theatre and we introduce chicken chewing, Guinness toting Gorgeous Film Critic Clare Muller! She rates American Hustle, Wolf of Wall Street and August: Osage County. Does she give them…

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length  18.00 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK   Most of us have siblings. Donna and Josephine admit that may be they have been a touch competitive with their siblings. Blood is thicker than water… which only makes it all the messier when…

Press white arrow above to play Length 29 mins Want to download or having problems press this LINK Lucinda Riley is back on top with her latest blockbuster novel The Midnight Rose. It is a rich and sprawling story that starts in Colonial India and is played out in London and Dartmoor during the Great War and…

  LOSE Weight at SLIMMERIA Retreat LOSE Weight at SLIMMERIA Retreat. Josephine and Donna discuss their 2014 health regimes Josephine goes on the wagon and Donna vows to be more active. Josephine talks to Galia Grainger Director of Slimmeria a gorgeous Georgian house Hastings, East Sussex. Galia explains how her guests are put through their…

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 26.03 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK   Susan Sellers, Professor of English and Related Literature at University of St. Andrews, has had a broad and varied career which has included bar maid and translator in Paris, Peru and Swaziland. It…

 PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 27.28 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK Karen Swan who worked on Tatler and Vogue is interviewed here by Donna Freed talking about her fabulous Christmas book Christmas at Claridges. Set in London’s Portobello Road, Portofino in Italy and ending up…

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 19.26 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK Most middle class mothers were not working in Britain in the 1970s. Author Emma Clark Lam tells us about her glamourous Grandmother TV presenter Jean Morton who had a. dazzling career in TV ending…

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 10.18 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK Are you frustrated by dresses being too short? Sleeveless? Cheap fabrics? Too expensive? LOOK NO FURTHER. We have found the dress makers of your dreams. Mary and Clare Burgess (sisters) were at the top…