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    Kristin Hannah – Author of the Week on Literary Lusts Donna has tea at the Corinthia Hotel in London with best selling American author Kristin Hannah.They swap stories about writing with their mothers and their own maternal fears as well as dealing with Dad’s dating.   kristinhannah.com Kristin has 105,249 likes on FACEBOOK!…

  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…

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…

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….

    Ellen Feldman Author of the Week The Unwitting Guggenheim Fellow Ellen Feldman excels in putting her fictional characters into an historical landscape. In her fifth novel, she tells the story of Charlie and Nell Benjamin at the height of the Cold War. He is the publisher of a left wing magazine and she…

Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief If Othello is a play about men and power and Desdemona is the murdered pawn in Iago’s plot for Othello’s downfall, this play is all about the women’s enmeshed relationships behind the scenes. Sadly, the result is the same and that darned handkerchief is still the deciding factor is…

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 23.17 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK Anne Jirsch is a future life progressionist – she believes you can go into the future and change your fate. Anne began working with past life regression over 20 years ago and through this…

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 27.28 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK Adelle Waldman’s writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Village Voice and other publications. Waldman worked as a reporter at the New Haven Register and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and wrote…

  PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 15.30 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK “Vintage Americana Restyled for Modern Living” Josephine Pembroke from Radio Gorgeous Pedlars is offering 15% off – RADIOG is the code and is valid until the end of December 2013(delivery not included). Pedlars are the Kings…

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 11.18 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS  THIS LINK Do you want bigger eyes? No more cakey mascara running down your cheeks? Donna felt the same and she wanted to look fab for a wedding so she dared to go to a salon…

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….

PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 10.30 Donna’s husband (not pictured above!) found an amusing article in the newspaper – shock horror men let themselves go at an average 46 years of age. For example they wear very old underwear, have the cheapest haircuts and grow beards. These are the depressing facts (see…

Corinne Drewery Swing Out Sister Gorgeous Lives features Corinne Drewery lead singer of Swing out Sister. All the music by Swing out Sister. Pop diva Corinne Drewery was one of the first video stars in the UK becoming globally famous in the 80’s with her Grammy nominated hit Break Out. Corinne talks frankly about her life her…

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!

  you don’t have to listen to the whole show…you can just scroll to your favourite bit… Gorgeous Gossip and Bitch Boxer What is a bitch? Are you a bitch?  And is it such a bad word? Josephine and Donna discuss this emotive word in their Gorgeous Gossip, which leads us into Donna’s interview with…

‘Blazing, ferocious and great hearted … The Middlesteins will blow you away’ – Lauren Groff Radio Gorgeous brings you a special interview with Jami Attenberg, author of best-seller, The Middlesteins, which will be ‘Book at bedtime on Radio 4,’ from Monday, February 25 2013. Jami talks to fellow Brooklynite Donna Freed about her anti-heroine’s obsession…

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…

  The Spectator’s agony aunt, Mary Killen, interviews Swedish-born Sophie Sarin, creator of a stunning and award winning mud hotel in war-torn Mali, in Africa. Sophie explains how she built the popular hotel – Djenne Djenno and how the war in Mali has stopped tourists visiting the hotel which is situated in the World Heritage…