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 STYLE FOREVER Alyson Walsh   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…

  Rules For Thursday Lovers by YANA STAJNO  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…

Studio visit with artist Jeanne Masoero. In conjunction with the Mexican Year of Exchange, independent art advisor and curator Sandra Higgins is showing Jeanne Masoero’s Invisible Cities: A Mayan Journey. The paintings – figures in light – were inspired by her visits to Mayan sites in the late 1970’s; they resemble topographical maps created out…

Running away and joining a nunnery is unfortunately harder than you think. We did some research to ask : Can You become a Nun? Donna and Josephine delve into a the religious world. Can Donna pass the test to become a nun? Gorgeous Gossip on Radio Gorgeous. You all heard it: there has been a…

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! Keep up…

    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: 00:26 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…

  Lynn Barber,  A Curious Career Lynn Barber,  A Curious Career  or 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…

Sharron Lowe The Mind Makeover Sharron gives us 3 tips on how to live our lives to the full and stop the fear and procrastination. Sharron  advises blue chip corporates workers how to make changes to the way we they think her book applies her methods to help normal women like us.  Sharron believes that…

Birds with Bottle Josephine and Donna were so eager to get to the booze, they didn’t even bother to gossip! The lovely ladies from Birds with Bottle Mel Jones MW and Sandra Clement are passionate about wine and food & wine matching but hate all the poncy stuff that seems to come with wine education….

Length: 22mins    LUXURY RETREATS Josephine and Donna attempt to manage their new phones and react strongly to gender stereotypes then and now. Ah, the joys of new stuff! Intrepid traveler – and yoga teacher – Sarah Tucker takes on the companies that jack up the prices during school holidays and then retreats… spiritually, physically, with a…

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 33.30 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT FOR CHRISTMAS? Donna and Josephine chat about what they really want for Christmas (luxury pampering of course). And Gorgeous Gossip this weeks chats to two captivating women from different…

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 Problems with the LINK ABOVE? PRESS this one Show Length   1.31 GORGEOUS GOSSIP – we all have times when we look back on our life and realise we were a bit unhinged. We talk about it in our weekly feature GG. Author of The Week – LOUISE…

Show Length 46.47     Jessie Keane  4.39   Vanessa Bailey 14.25   Sarah Crompton 27.52 PROBLEMS With the LINK ABOVE click on THIS ONE! Haven’t got time to listen to it all? Scroll to your fave bit…..   Gorgeous Gossip this week we discuss is whistle blowing to your best friend ever a good…

    You don’t have to listen to the whole show just scroll where you want to go To listen on your TABLET/CELL PHONE/MOBILE Press this link Show Length: 75 minutes Gorgeous Gossip Donna and Josephine discuss the origins of the Hollywood sign. Author of the Week – Daisy Waugh – Melting the Snow on…

Radio Gorgeous is taking you on an unbelievable journey today. Our itinerary
starts at home alone – we’ll explain in Gorgeous Gossip – and then we shift to the
South London world created by playwright Janice Okoh in her play Three Birds, which deals with 3 children left alone at home.

www.bushtheatre.co.uk

Next we trek to the polar regions with polar explorer and Author of the Week Kari Herbert who talks about her book Heart of the Hero. Kari was inspired to write about polar wives and her mother is in the book. Kari is from a polar family Kari Herbert’s first language was Inuktun, the Thule dialect of Greenlandic, a result of living with the Polar Inuit of Northwest Greenland from the age of ten months. She is the daughter of the pioneering polar explorer Sir Wally Herbert and author Marie Herbert.

www.kariherbert.com

Just North of Antartica we stop off in Peru, where celebrity journalist Anna Hunt tells us of her remarkable travels and her journey to becoming a bone fide Shaman herself. She was inspired to write the book The Shaman in Stilettos. Josephine’s first question to her was – what is a shaman?

www.annahunt.com

And finally, we come back home again to London – West London – very near Radio Gorgeous. Have you started to think about planting some vegetables or herbs yet? We have and we met up with inspiring Garden and Interior Designer Nicola Harding tells how to have green fingers without much skill. Yippee!

www.nicolaharding.com

Nicola Harding Gardener & Interior Designer for people who don’t think they need one!

Radio Gorgeous is taking you on an unbelievable journey today. Our itinerary
starts at home alone – we’ll explain in Gorgeous Gossip – and then we shift to the
South London world created by playwright Janice Okoh in her play Three Birds, which deals with 3 children left alone at home.

www.bushtheatre.co.uk

Next we trek to the polar regions with polar explorer and Author of the Week Kari Herbert who talks about her book Heart of the Hero. Kari was inspired to write about polar wives and her mother is in the book. Kari is from a polar family Kari Herbert’s first language was Inuktun, the Thule dialect of Greenlandic, a result of living with the Polar Inuit of Northwest Greenland from the age of ten months. She is the daughter of the pioneering polar explorer Sir Wally Herbert and author Marie Herbert.

www.kariherbert.com

Just North of Antartica we stop off in Peru, where celebrity journalist Anna Hunt tells us of her remarkable travels and her journey to becoming a bone fide Shaman herself. She was inspired to write the book The Shaman in Stilettos. Josephine’s first question to her was – what is a shaman?

www.annahunt.com

And finally, we come back home again to London – West London – very near Radio Gorgeous. Have you started to think about planting some vegetables or herbs yet? We have and we met up with inspiring Garden and Interior Designer Nicola Harding tells how to have green fingers without much skill. Yippee!

www.nicolaharding.com

Nicola Harding Gardener & Interior Designer for people who don’t think they need one!

Welcome to radio gorgeous, where as we would love you to listen to the whole show if there is a piece you are particularly attracted to….just press the play button and scroll to your favourite bit. As every GORGEOUS GAL knows – in theory at least – there is a time to be sensible! In…