Radio Gorgeous

New Play, Fabric, by playwright Abi Zakarian with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous  Playing all throughout August at Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Abi Zakarian’s new play exposes the unravelling  of a young woman’s life after she is raped. She was commissioned to write the one-woman show for actor Nancy Sullivan and director Tom…

Hubdot London Meet the Speakers PART ONE  Vivacious Simona Barbieri noticed the natural networking opportunities at a mum’s coffee morning and decided to make it informally formal. Learn more about HUBDOT stories, or go to events:  https://hubdot.com/#home Follow: https://twitter.com/hubdot   @hubdot  Like this? Go to www.radiogorgeous.com for more  

Nominate A Woman Who Inspired YOU! PHENOMENAL PEOPLE – INTERVIEW FOR RADIO GORGEOUS BY NICKI BANNERMAN Nicki Bannerman talks with Shakespeare and TV actress Victoria Moseley and poet and author Malika Booker at the Phenomenal People live theatre performance event. A pop-up live performance event called Phenomenal People celebrated stories about women in society with an…

 Face Matters – Sally Curson  After 20 years in the beauty business, Sally Curson wanted a skin product that actually did what it said on the tin so she founded Face Matters. She uses all natural products and a high concentration of essential oils – for both for their aroma and effectiveness – blended with mineral silicon for…

Girls Will Be Girls – Emer O Toole Emer O Toole discovered early on that the veneer of gender can be very thin; somewhat like the dress we saw white/gold or black/blue, our eye fills in what we expect to see. In her book Girls Will Be Girls, she encourages us to be brave (braver…

Josephine and Donna sound off on their Sound Women event. The highlights: Fi Glover, Jane Garvey, Angie Greaves  and Annie Nightingale – obviously; the low lights: blisters due to traipsing up and down the Victoria Embankment looking for the bloody Hispaniola! STOP PRESS Angie Greaves is coming onto Radio Gorgeous soon! Our That’s Entertainment guest…

Josephine talks to YOUNG FEMINIST Charlie Brades Also, Can we have it all? Do we even want it? Josephine and Donna discuss Nathalie Loiseau’s new book: Choissez Tout! She is under the impression that women, in trying to be the perfect wives and mothers, are holding back their careers. Stop helicoptering, enough with the breast…

SHARON CORR After a spectacularly successful fifteen-year stint with her brother and sisters in the Corrs – the band’s unique brand of Celtic rock sold over 45 million albums world wide – violinist and singer Sharon Corr stepped into the spotlight in her own right  with a blossoming solo career and a musical renaissance.  Celebrating…

Emma Bridgwater From the simple idea of wanting to create the perfect bowl and mug for her mum’s dresser, Emma Bridgewater built the pottery empire she always dreamed of. The colourful, cheerful and practical ceramics have the same design she drew 30 years ago in her Brixton squat. She’s come a long way since then…

Melissa Cole BEER EXPERT Meet Melissa Cole – Beer expert and a woman. The beer industry is male dominated and the consensus seems to be that if we ladies will dain to drink beer, we want it sweet. Thank goodness she is there to set them straight. She and Josephine met for lunch and a…

  The Time of Their Lives Maeve Haran Josephine and Donna talk to sassy and in her sixties Maeve Haran. Oxford law student turned TV producer turned author, Maeve Haran looked around her and her circle of close university friends who are all in their sixties and not old in the slightest in the way…

Best of Radio Gorgeous You are in for a treat we have created an easy to digest ‘Best of Radio Gorgeous’ for you to enjoy. Firstly you will hear perky Jo Wood talking about hanging out with the Rolling Stones and then the happiness that came from getting of their cloud. Then meet Harriet Sergeant…

Be Safe I Love You by Cara Hoffman As the saying goes: you can never go home again. It’s especially hard to go home if you’ve been in a combat zone. Be Safe I Love You tells the story of Lauren Clay, a woman soldier returned from Iraq, to find her role as the caretaker of the family…

  Dark & Stormy CRIME Festival On Radio Gorgeous we encourage women to try new things: be like Madonna and reinvent yourself if only for an afternoon, you might just like it! In that spirit, we got the lovely novelist and Brighton light Jo Rees to attend the Dark and Stormy Festival of crime writing…

Length: 22.00     Gorgeous Gossip  Josephine goes it alone for her gossip – lonely much! But she’s joined via Donna by the cast and producer (Fluff Productions) of World Enough and Time, an era spanning play exploring women’s lives during politically volatile times currently playing at The Park Theatre. Then Josephine had a bad…

Length: 15.00     Gorgeous Living – Gillian Anderson Price If you’re looking for Suffragette jewellery or an early Kelly bag or naked lady playing cards from days gone by (and who isn’t?), Gillian Anderson Price’s wondrous shop in Mayfair will be your first and last stop. She sells all things vintage except clothing including…

YOU CAN BREATHE Podcast length: 19:27  Let’s get wild and BREATHE! Breathe properly that is. We have all got used to the idea that we only use a fraction of our brains, but our lungs? Yes, turns out we need to Just Breathe the Caroline Kremer way. The trick: focus on the exhalation. Where breathing…

Podcast length: 23:45 The Hub Dot on Gorgeous Gossip We love to hang with the gals, have a chat, make connections: otherwise known as networking. Vivacious networking maveric, Simona Barbieri wanted a low tech, low pressure forum for women to get together, tell their stories and support each other. She devised a simple 5 dot…

IMAGE ABOVE : ABIGAIL AHERN’s HOME PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length  17.06 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK  ‘”I can’t have enough velvet” Hannah from Velvet Eccentric VELVET ECCENTRIC what does that name conjure up? Something British, lustrous, unpredictable, luxurious. It is the name of a…

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length  27.03 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK D.I.V.O.R.C.E. Donna and Josephine talk about divorce not that they know what it really feels like being smug married themselves. So they invited Caroline and Lucy recent divorcees onto the show to ask what…