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Face Matters – Sally Curson
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…
Tracy Bloom Author I Will Marry George Clooney by Christmas
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…
Own That Guy in 60 Days – Blake Lavak
Blake Lavak’s Own That Guy in 60 Days is a dating guide for women. He councils us to take the bull by the horns or the tuna by the tail as it were. We push single gal Mandy Lax into the dating pool with Blake. NOTE: This is not so much a guide to…
Bosom Buddies meet Pauline Giles
GORGEOUS GOSSIP Josephine & Donna’s Week A Flower & an Earl : 00.28 Pauline Giles founder of Bosom Buddies: 10.25 Josephine and Donna review their week: Josephine scared the pants off Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer and Donna – after cooing to our canine producer Kissie Moo – proves a crap car owner and gardener…
RULA LENSKA My Colourful Life
Rula Lenska on GORGEOUS LIVES “All my life I have run into excitement, danger and discovery.” Legendary red head, beauty and talented British born of aristocratic Polish descent actress and West London denizen tells Josephine about her most dangerous role: Celebrity Big Brother! Josephine is now addicted to Rock Follies and Donna is the only one…
Sound Women meet Women Presenters
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…
EMMA BRIDGEWATER Toast & Marmalade & Other Stories – An Interview with Josephine Pembroke on GORGEOUS LIVES
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…
On the Far Side There’s a Boy Paula Coston – Author of the Week on Literary Lusts with Donna Freed
Paula Coston returns to Radio Gorgeous with her own novel (she covered the Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre for us) which is a fictional version of her real life circumstance of becoming a childless woman via circumstance. As it is a growing statistic that 1 in 5 women are childless and…
The PERFECT JEANS Donna tries them on at Damsel in Chiswick – Listen & Learn GALS! Gorgeous Gossip
The Perfect Jeans Donna doesn’t do jeans. Have you ever seen her in jeans? A rare sighting indeed, like a panda in the wild (same shape?). How could she resist the Paige Denim event at Damsel Boutique in Chiswick. Not only did she find a pair of jeans but they got her to wear a…
Twiggy M&S Part Two
Twiggy and M&S, Family & Love Life In the second part of Josephine’s conversation with Twiggy, the former – and current – model and actress talks about her love life, her daughter and her move into designing for M&S. It will probably be a catfight between Josephine and Donna for the blue suede jacket! ALL…
LUXURY RETREATS on GORGEOUS Escapes with Sarah Tucker
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…
Gillian Anderson Price Every Day Vintage Luxuries
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…
Karen Joy Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Author of the Week
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…
Leah Hager Cohen – No Book but the World – Author of the Week
Podcast length: 33:00 At the edge of a woods, on the grounds of a defunct “free school,” Ava and her brother, Fred, shared a dreamy and seemingly idyllic childhood—a world defined largely by their imaginations and each other’s presence. Everyone is aware of Fred’s oddness or vague impairment, but his parents’ fierce disapproval of…
Author of the Week – Joanna Rees – The Key to it All
Podcast length: 10:00 The wonder bubble of joy and energy that is Joanna Rees tells Donna about writing as a child, taking the plunge as a novelist, how she met her husband, the secrets of Brighton, her first radio experience (imagine you didn’t know you were live!) her writing routine and eventually her latest book: The…
Velvet Eccentric Interiors with Abigail Ahern the UK’s hottest Interior Designer
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…
TRAVEL Antarctica & Malta via Buenos Aires – Sarah Tucker on Gorgeous Escapes whats hot and whats not 2014
Length 25.00 More images of Sarah’s travels below just scroll down This week, our new travel correspondent Sarah Tucker brings you Gorgeous Escapes. She tells us about her 8 day expedition to Antarctica with her son and 90 other people ranging in age from 7 to the late 70’s. Sarah was overwhelmed by the sight…
The Engagements by J. Courtney-Sullivan Author of the Week on Radio Gorgeous
PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 31.34 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS THIS LINK NYTimes best selling author J Courtney Sullivan’s latest novel The Engagements is an enthralling tale of love, marriage and the many forms of heartbreak. The De Beers perennial campaign: A diamond is forever…
Diamonds Darling! Bling Bling Gorgeous Gossip with Amanda E-G Jeweller and Josephine and Donna
PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 21.35 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS THIS LINK Our Gorgeous Gossip was suggested when Donna met the delightful J Courtney Sullivan – our Author of the Week – and we immediately started discussing engagements rings. Although her book, The Engagements, is…
Rigby and Peller Lingerie Specialists for the Queen on RADIO GORGEOUS
PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 27.28 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS THIS LINK What size bust are you? You probably have not be measured up properly for years. The Queen knows a thing or two about looking good and she has been using this UK company…