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Radio Gorgeous

533 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratings

The UK’s longest running all women podcasters, Est. 2011: Irreverent and uncensored interviews, life stories, conversations and debate.

CULTURE: FOOD: WELLBEING: SEX: COMEDY: AUTHORS

“It’s fantastic to have a radio show for women BY women. Not that Radio Gorgeous is worthy or box-ticking. It’s funny, frantic, smart; often profound and just occasionally filthy.” Liz Hoggard – Journalist It was such fun” Lynn Barber – Celebrity Journalist

“Pirate Radio for Vogue Readers” Journalist and writer Zoe Williams

“Radio Gorgeous is a brilliant, necessary and exciting enterprise which puts women’s work, ideas, voices, creativity and wit front and centre. Radio Gorgeous is storming a media landscape in which women are under-represented as speakers, experts, stars and executives, producing brilliantly researched content which never fails to inspire and excite. From politics to the arts, the everyday to the global, Radio Gorgeous is quicker, smarter and sharper than anything else out there right now.” Bidisha Critic, Writer & Broadcaster

“Josephine is such a positive person! She is really willing you on to express yourself. She has really brilliant questions and is obviously really interested! ” Gillian McCallum CEO of Drawing Down The Moon

“Once you listen, you’ll be addicted and won’t be able to wait for your weekly fix. Hearing talented women talking in depth about their involvement in books, art, music, theatre as well as all manner of health and lifestyle issues is both fascinating and up-lifting. Affirmative, real and full of humour, listening to radio Gorgeous really will make you feel gorgeous.” Jo Rees, Author

This week I was interviewed on Radio Gorgeous, the UK’s longest running women led podcast. My early career was as a radio and TV reporter and out of all the interviews I’ve done, this one was my favourite (except I was the one answering the questions, instead of asking them). Please give Josephine Pembroke a TV Show! She is clever, funny, naughty and kind. It made for an insightful interview as we talked about orgasm, self-discovery, movement as medicine and more.” Betsy Blankenbaker Autobiography of an Orgasm

“Radio Gorgeous does the best author interviews on the planet!” Gina Rozner, West London

“Being Interviewed by Radio Gorgeous is a fabulous experience…I loved every minute. Not only because the gorgeous Josephine herself has actually read the book so the conversation just flows. But what a great idea it is to preserve women’s voices in the 21st century. This is what we thought in 2012 and this is how we said it. What will my grandchildren think?” Anne Sebba – Author

“Radio Gorgeous is such a clever idea and done so well. -Josephine is a dream interviewer” Lindsey Bareham, Food Writer and Cook

“Radio Gorgeous has the best interviews, with the most interesting women, doing the most courageous things – right now. You can’t afford not to listen.” Rachel Kelly Writer and Journalist

‘Radio Gorgeous is absolutely fantastic!” – Jacqueline Rogers CEO The Athena Network

“Love, love, love Radio Gorgeous, packed full of entertainment, culture and just great place to hang-out. Tune in!” – Deborah Garlick CEO of http://Henpicked.net

“There is something for everyone on @Radio_Gorgeous it’s fun, edgy and sometimes quite controversial!” @SusanCoweMiller Therapist

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Episodes

MAN WEEK: Donna Freed with Geoff Deane, author of From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots

October 23, 2023 11:57 - 1 hour - 56.3 MB

Geoff Deane is most recently known as the screenwriter of Kinky Boots, but his career swerves have encompassed founding the punk band Leyton Buzzards and salsa band Modern Romance. He has been a writer and producer for television, a journalist, restaurant critic and songwriter but it is his observations and appreciation for the joyful cast of characters he has met along the way that colours From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots: How Music, Clothes and Going Out Shaped My Life and Upset My Mother....

Donna Freed with best-selling author Megan Ramos, The Essential Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women

June 20, 2023 09:08 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MB

Megan Ramos, co-author of the best-selling Life in the Fasting Lane (with Dr Jason Fung), has now written a guide to intermittent fasting specifically for women, with step-by-step advice for preventing and reversing metabolic disease. As a teenager, Megan was diagnosed with both non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and polycystic ovarian syndrome and developed type 2 diabetes in her mid-twenties. While a researcher in a clinic, she met Dr Jason Fung and his ideas on intermittent fasting.  She...

Donna Freed with Marisa Haetzman, one half of Ambrose Parry

May 17, 2023 16:35 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB

Donna Freed meets Marisa Haetsman, one half of the husband-wife writing partnership, Ambrose Parry, authors of a series of medical murder mysteries set in Victorian Edinburgh. Marisa sets the scene for the latest, Voices of the Dead, which takes place in 1853 when Edinburgh while still sceptical of medical men in the wake of the Burke and Hare murders is experiencing a resurgence in interest in mesmerism and chloroform has just been as an early anaesthetic for use in childbirth.  Former Con...

Part 2; Donna Freed with Christina Ford, author of In Search of Mr Darcy

April 18, 2023 17:28 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

Before they were interrupted by a gorgeous, if unruly dog, Donna Freed and Christina Ford were marvelling at some of the twists and turns in Christina's personal life as related in memoir, In Search of Mr Darcy. In this segment, Christina alludes to the genuinely shocking and ingenious end to the relationship that brought her to London from her native Toronto and explains why she decided to stay in London and start her blog A-Broad in London   #memoir #blog #podcast @Radio_Gorgeous @icon...

Part 1: Donna Freed with Christina Ford, author of In Search of Mr Darcy

April 17, 2023 15:37 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MB

Toronto-native Christina Ford is a former TV and film executive who lives in London and chronicles her adventures in A-Broad in London. In Search of Mr Darcy, Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After is both her first book and a middle-aged lady manifesto!  Her memoir charts her life and career through the lens of the men she has chosen to share it with. Typical of her warmth and generosity, Christina shared her time and story in Donna Freed's West London kitchen... until Ruby, ...

Donna Freed with The Ugly Truth author L. C. North

March 26, 2023 15:38 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MB

The Ugly Truth, L. C. North's debut thriller, told exclusively told through interviews, transcripts and diary entries, explores the dark side of celebrity culture and trying to determine the truth through the distorting lens of reportage and social media.  L. C. North lives in Suffolk, co-hosts the crime thriller podcast In Suspense and is working on her second novel.  #TheUglyTruth @Radio_Gorgeous @Lauren_C_North @Emily_BookPR 

Donna Freed with entrepreneur Susi Hartmann

March 21, 2023 08:39 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MB

Susi Hartmann is a modern etiquette consultant and life coach as well as an entrepreneur hosting bespoke wellness retreats through the company she co-founded, Beaumont Awareness. She shares her very personal journey of treating the symptoms of menopause with psilocyben microdosing. She preferred an all natural solution and after thorough research and conversations with experts, she discovered the benefits of using mild forms of 'magic mushrooms' to reduce the anxiety and self-doubt that cam...

Donna Freed with Kate Hamer, author of The Lost Girls

February 19, 2023 19:25 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MB

Coming home was just the beginning... Kate Hamer follows up her taut psychological blockbuster The Girl in the Red Coat with an equally engrossing sequel, The Lost Girls.  Carmel has been returned home five years after she was abducted by the preacher of a cult. But the trauma of her experience continues to haunt her and and her mother Beth. Beth is paralysed by fear for her daughter while Carmel is tortured by the knowledge that she wasn't the only girl to go missing and further dismayed t...

Donna Freed with The Chase author Ava Glass

February 15, 2023 17:03 - 21 minutes - 20 MB

Introducing the next female 007, Makepeace, Emma Makepeace! Ava Glass' hyper-pacy thriller, The Chase follows novice MI6 operative Emma Makepeace as she attempts to escort a man wanted by the Russians across surveillance-filled London without being detected by CCTV.  Ava spent over a decade working with British spies at MI5 and MI6, has trained spies and been vetted to become a spy herself, so she knows a thing or two about what goes on behind closed government doors. She reveals the person...

Donna Freed with author Kitty Murphy: Death in Heels

January 18, 2023 15:55 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MB

Kitty Murphy introduces the first book in her Dublin Drag Mystery Series: Death in Heels. When Eve, frenemy to all in Dublin's drag club Trash, is found dead, Fi McKinnery is forced to turn 'Hagatha Christie'. No one else, including the police nor her best friend Robyn - who performs as Mae B - believes that Eve was murdered. Even as Robyn distances himself from Fi, she is determined to find out who is threatening the lives of Dublin's drag queens. Death in Heels is out now from Thomas & M...

Donna Freed with Sara Cox, founder of the Cheshire Novel Prize

January 18, 2023 10:11 - 7 minutes - 7.35 MB

Sara Cox is a  writer, editor and coach. After completing her MA in Creative Writing, Sara set up her own editing business. In 2021, tired of literary prizes that offered no feedback, Sara set up her own and The Cheshire Novel Prize for unrepresented, unpublished or self-published writers was born.  In its first year The Cheshire Novel Prize attracted 998 entrants and each entrant received personalised feedback and the top winners got agents.  The prize is now also open to un-agented mem...

You'll Never Walk Alone - Interview with author Rachel Kelly about the power of poetry with Josephine Pembroke

December 07, 2022 15:14 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MB

You'll Never Walk Alone - Poems for life's up and downs Rachel Kelly is a former Times journalist who is now a mental health campaigner, public speaker, and writer.  In her early thirties, Rachel was diagnosed with serious depression and subsequently suffered two major depressive episodes. These two episodes have become the defining events of her life. Since then, she has written about the condition, and how she has recovered, in books that have been read by tens of thousands of peopl Rac...

Working Girls of Soho, Josephine Pembroke on Museum of Soho show on Soho Radio

November 14, 2022 18:17 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MB

The Working Girls of Soho - Saucy Tales of Notorious Women  A fabulous cabaret celebrating Soho's glorious past. Featuring the club runners, strippers, whores and thieves with songsand stories. Josephine Pembroke of Pussies Galore talks about her sell out show featuring the female club runners, strippers, whores and thieves from Soho's past. Your chance to experience the real Soho, faded glamour and louche, hilarious stories. Ex Sohoite and founder of cult 90's band Pussies Galore, Josephin...

Donna Freed with True Story London founder Michelle Toth

November 13, 2022 11:48 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MB

Michelle Toth is a bit of a polymath, in part because she loves learning and in part because when other people ask why, Michelle tends to ask, why not? She has been an entrepreneur, consultant, executive, novelist and story teller and is now a highly accomplished executive coach. She is passionate about connecting people through art and specifically, storytelling. The telling of our true, personal stories helps to break down not only our own defences but also those of our audience. This shar...

Donna Freed with Adam Zmith, author of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures MAN WEEK ON RADIO GORGEOUS

November 10, 2022 15:57 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MB

MAN WEEK ON RADIO GORGEOUS  Donna Freed with Adam Zmith, author of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures Adam Zmith is a writer, talker, thinker and maker with podcasts, stage and film credits to his name. Deep Sniff is a  meditation on the history of poppers and their role in gay culture as well as his own queerness came out of a Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest talk he gave in November 2019. The book is in part informed by some of the research that Zmith did for his award-wi...

London's Lost Department Stores - A Vanished World of Dazzle and Dreams by Tessa Boase with Josephine Pembroke

October 28, 2022 11:24 - 28 minutes - 26 MB

Last century central London and the suburbs were awash with 'Halls of Temptation,' giant emporiums where you could buy anything from exotic pets to opening your own bank account. Author Tessa Boase tells us about the golden days of shopping, when  visiting a store was a magnificent assault on the senses.  #RadioGorgeous #SocialHistory #MrSelfridge 

Donna Freed at the Corfu Literary Festival with Melanie Hewitt and Isabelle Broom

September 21, 2022 15:37 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MB

Donna Freed at the Corfu Literary Festival with Melanie Hewitt and Isabelle Broom Donna landed in Corfu just in time to catch up with authors Melanie Hewitt, Looking for the Durrells and Isabelle Broom, The Summer Trip (among many others) prior to their Corfu Literary Festival event: Love in a Hot Climate. Melanie attended the festival last year as an author and returned this year to chair a discussion of authors who have all set their novels in beautiful and evocative Corfu. Isabelle Broo...

The Working Girls of Soho - Edinburgh Fringe 2022, with Josephine Pembroke and Donna Freed

August 02, 2022 15:54 - 2 minutes - 2.71 MB

Josephine explores the female wild bohemians, whores, thieves and nightclub queens of London Soho's outrageous past in her dazzling show at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Josephine performs regularly in London  for tickets click below. https://linktr.ee/josephinepembroke “Wit, charm and plenty of sauce, simply a fabulous show.” Sophie Parkin, Author of The Colony Room Club 1948-2008 “Josephine brings Soho in all its seedy, raunchy glamour to life. Dazzling fun.” Donna Freed, Radio Gorgeou...

The Working Girls of Soho - Saucy Tales of Notorious Women by Josephine Pembroke with Donna Freed

August 02, 2022 15:50 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB

Josephine reveals all in this candid interview about the female wild bohemians, whores, thieves and nightclub queens of London Soho's outrageous past. Josephine performs regularly in London  for tickets click below. https://linktr.ee/josephinepembroke https://linktr.ee/josephinepembroke “Wit, charm and plenty of sauce, simply a fabulous show.” Sophie Parkin, Author of The Colony Room Club 1948-2008 “Josephine brings Soho in all its seedy, raunchy glamour to life. Dazzling fun.” Donna...

Donna Freed with Wanda Whiteley, author of The Goldhanger Dog

July 29, 2022 17:51 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB

As a commissioning editor at Harper Collins, Wanda Whiteley was in the business of saying no to the majority of authors who came her way. She founded manuscriptdoctor.co.uk so she could put her expertise to work for new authors. Wanda then decided it would only be fair to put herself in their shoes and the result is her debut historical novel, The Goldhanger Dog. The young protagonist, fifteen-year-old Dela, has an unusual relationship to animals which has caused her East Anglian neighbours ...

Ode to Joyce by Cheryl Knight, a one woman show about the JOYCE GRENFELL the hilarious comedienne

May 31, 2022 11:21 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MB

Star of the St Trinian's films and inspiration for Victoria Wood and Miranda Hart, Joyce Grenfell was one of Britain's most loved female comedienne, writer, actor and singer. Cheryl Knight tells us about Joyce, and her hugely popular one woman show which is touring southern England. Press link for tour info and tickets.  http://www.apollotheatrecompany.com/ode-to-joyce.html #OdetoJoyce #Theatre #RadioGorgeous 

The Working Girls of Soho - Saucy Tales of Notorious Women by Josephine Pembroke on BBC Radio London interview with Jo Good

May 16, 2022 12:57 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB

Ex Sohoite cabaret chanteuse Josephine Pembroke talks to Jo Good on BBC London about living in Soho in the 80's, Pussies Galore and more. Josephine performs regularly for tickets click below.  https://linktr.ee/josephinepembroke “Wit, charm and plenty of sauce, simply a fabulous show.” Sophie Parkin, Author of The Colony Room Club 1948-2008 “Josephine brings Soho in all its seedy, raunchy glamour to life. Dazzling fun.” Donna Freed, Radio Gorgeous #JosephinePembroke #Soho #EdFringe22 ...

Harry Styles - The Making Of A Modern Man by Sean Smith with Josephine on Radio Gorgeous

December 09, 2021 17:10 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MB

Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells Radio Gorgeous the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon: Harry Styles. Harry Styles - The Making Of A Modern Man by Sean Smith is published by Harper Collins. #HarryStyles #RadioGorgeous 

The Healing Power of Pleasure – Seven Medicines for Rediscovering the innate joy of being by Julia Paulette Hollenbery with Josephine Pembroke

December 03, 2021 12:55 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB

What is the Universe of Deliciousness? A gorgeous term created by my guest on Radio Gorgeous, Julia is a bodyworker, therapist and healer. Julia talks us through how to get to this state. Be prepared to bring joy directly into your life.  #MindBodySpirit #RadioGorgeous 

Donna Freed with Tommy Barnes, author of Trouble Brewing in the Loire on Man Week

November 20, 2021 15:36 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MB

Trouble Brewing in the Loire is Tommy Barnes' sequel to the brilliantly funny, A Beer in the Loire. A book about brewing beer and life, which for Tommy, his young family and unruly menagerie is a lot like beer: fermented, fizzy and occasionally explosive.  Follow Tommy as he, in his own words, farts around the French countryside trying to make beer with his arch nemesis, Burt, the devil dog at his side and is forced to confront the shambolic state of his brewery and the metaphor it makes of...

The Improbable Adventures of Emily Soldene, Actress, Writer and Rebel Victorian, by Helen Batten with Josephine Pembroke

September 23, 2021 17:34 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MB

Emily Soldene was a true Victorian, born of the wrong side of the tracks, she was illegitimate and her mother was working class, a bonnet maker by trade. Emily reinvented herself at twenty-two, she took singing lessons and willed herself to stardom.  Hear her 3rd cousin once removed best selling author Helen Batten tell us Emily's extraordinary tale of her scandalous life of a performer, business woman and journalist, and without knowing it, a feminist.  #RadioGorgeous #Theatre #History 

Donna Freed with Claire-Monique Martin and Charlotte Reidie of One Night with Marilyn

September 17, 2021 08:22 - 10 minutes - 9.89 MB

In February 1961 Marilyn Monroe was sectioned by her psychiatrist. One Night with Marilyn is a theatrical exploration of this harrowing time mostly unknown by her millions of fans.   Claire-Monique Martin and Charlotte Reidie, who both play Marilyn in the play, talk to Donna Freed about their roles and the themes of mental illness in the play by PT Rose. It is shocking to think that Queen Elizabeth and Marilyn Monroe were born in the same year. Donna Freed will also has a role in the play ...

Donna Freed with Heidi Amsinck, author of My Name is Jensen

September 03, 2021 12:44 - 7 minutes - 6.66 MB

Radio Gorgeous was thrilled to attend - in person - the launch of Heidi Amsinck's debut novel and first in a new series of crime novels, My Name is Jensen. My Name is Jensen introduces us to journalist turned sleuth Jensen, who has returned to her native Copenhagen after some years working in London. An experience that mirrors Heidi's own, although she has remained in London. Also in attendance at the launch was actor Tim McKinnerny who will be recording the audio book. Oh what a night! ...

Chiswick Cinema, London is now open! Meet Kathryn Smith the Manager

June 24, 2021 16:23 - 7 minutes - 7.14 MB

Chiswick’s first new cinema since 1934, opens this today! The cinema has four screen for the public, and there is a cafe with bar snacks, cocktails and craft beers.  No ordinary cinema this is high end glamour and much needed culture for the area.  chiswickcinema.co.uk #Cinema  #RadioGorgeous 

Adorable Dora - a tribute to Dora Bryan by West End Star, Rosemary Ashe with Josephine Pembroke

June 21, 2021 16:23 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MB

Singing sensations Rosemary Ashe has a wonderful habit of writing one woman shows to perform, always musical, her last successful show featured Ethel Merman. Today we talked about her spanking brand new show called ADORABLE DORA, a tribute to Dora Bryan. Dora was an actress and singer in the second half of the 20th century, she was a character actress with a colourful life. Rosemary Ashe has a written and is performing the show on a mini tour in London and Brighton this summer. #OneWomanSh...

Diamonds at the Lost & Found by Sarah Aspinall with Josephine Pembroke

June 16, 2021 11:53 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MB

What did we expect our mothers to be in the 20th Century? Apron wearing, docile, tactile and never critical. But one day we find out that our mothers are people and they have dreams and expectations. Today I am welcomed onto Radio Gorgeous a woman who is an award winning producer and documentary maker, Sarah Aspinall. Sarah had a mother who did not fit into the motherly ideal, she dreamed of stardom, glamour and love and actively sought it out. Sarah her daughter was along for the crazy and ...

Women on Nature, edited by Katherine Norbury author of The Fish Ladder

May 14, 2021 11:56 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MB

Acclaimed author Katharine Norbury tells us why it’s time to have a book about nature written solely by women. Naturalists in the past have painstakingly recorded nature naming plants, trees and animals and controlling the environment. It’s time for us to take a more spiritual approach as we face an ecological crisis, it’s time to admit that we are nature.  #Anthology #RadioGorgeous #Nature  Women in Nature, An anthology of women's writing about the east Atlantic Archipelago is published b...

Donna Freed with Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne

May 11, 2021 13:36 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB

Ariadne and her sister Phaedra were pivotal footnotes in the heroic stories of men with the exception of the letters Ovid wrote in their name. It was these passionate but powerless voices that sparked Jennifer Saint's debut novel Ariadne. Ariadne is a vibrant retelling and imagining of their stories as well as a story of sisters, growing up in the shadow of their brother, the Minotaur - himself born of their father's terrible pride and their mother's maddened shame.  This is a beautiful exp...

My Journey to Judaism - OSHER by Tetiana Michaels

April 26, 2021 14:17 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MB

Tetiana thinks that her great grandmother was "secretly" Jewish, as being a Jew in Ukraine back then was dangerous. Tetiana tells us why she, an independent modern woman fell in love with an ancient faith and converted.  #RadioGorgeous #Judaism #Memoir 

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls Mona Eltahawy, Radio Gorgeous meets the world's number one feminist!

April 22, 2021 10:45 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MB

Mona has written a manifesto which starts and ends with abuse by men to women, she wants us all to stand up for ourselves and "Fuck the patriarchy" she tells us why and how to do it. Listen hard.  #Feminism #FuckThePatriarchy #RadioGorgeous 

Donna Freed with Polly Samson, author of A Theatre of Dreamers

April 20, 2021 16:40 - 31 minutes

Charmian Clift left London in 1954 with her husband and children to live on the Greek island of Kalymnos. The following year, they moved to Hydra where they were the forerunners of a bohemian artist community. Leonard Cohen stayed with them when he first visited the island. Her vivid memoirs of this time have been beautifully reissued by Muswell Press with forwards by Polly Samson. In Samson's 2020 novel, A Theatre for Dreamers, Charmian Clift is a central character. Mermaid Singing and P...

Donna Freed with Polly Samson, author of A Theatre for Dreamers

April 20, 2021 16:40 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB

Charmian Clift left London in 1954 with her husband and children to live on the Greek island of Kalymnos. The following year, they moved to Hydra where they were the forerunners of a bohemian artist community. Leonard Cohen stayed with them when he first visited the island. Her vivid memoirs of this time have been beautifully reissued by Muswell Press with forwards by Polly Samson. In Samson's 2020 novel, A Theatre for Dreamers, Charmian Clift is a central character. Mermaid Singing and P...

Donna Freed with Isabel Costello - author of Scent

April 03, 2021 18:59 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MB

Scent (Muswell Press) is the second novel from Isabel Costello, author of Paris Mon Amour. Her love and intimate knowledge of France is apparent as is her ability to expose the inner life of a Parisian perfumer, Clémentine, whose marriage is disintegrating at the same time as a her former lover turns up with an unknown agenda.  It is an engrossing read redolent of tension and desire. Isabel, who has run the Literary Sofa blog for 10 years, will discuss Scent in 'An Evening with Isabel Cos...

PLEASE YOURSELF, How to Stop People-Pleasing and Transform the Way You Live by Emma Reed Turrell

April 01, 2021 14:06 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MB

Are you a people pleaser? You may not even know you are one because according to author and therapist Emma Reed Turrell there is more to people pleasing than the sweet, saint like image we all imagine. Cambridge University educated Emma is our guest today on Radio Gorgeous and we are delving into the people pleasing world and talk about different types of pleasers and the uncomfortable feelings which women are not "allowed" to have. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Please-Yourself-Stop-People-Plea...

The German Heiress - Running from the past is a dangerous game, by Anika Scott with Josephine Pembroke

February 22, 2021 14:59 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MB

The German Heiress is an action packed, yet haunting novel set in Essen, North Germany which was known as the armoury of the Reich. Set in post war Germany where people were fighting for their survival and facing up to cruel truths of their recent past. The German Heiress by Anika Scott is published by Windmill (in the UK) Annika's website: https://postwargermany.com/ #RadioGorgeous #WorldWar2 #Novel 

WRITE ON. A Daily Writing Practice, for Anyone With A Story to Tell by Betsy B. Murphy

January 28, 2021 16:46 - 26 minutes - 24 MB

Now we are in a world wide pandemic, it is depressing, but it does not have to be. Turn off Netflix and get your creative juices going. My guest will encourage you to write and and most importantly find your own voice.    WRITE ON, A Daily Writing Practice, for Anyone With A Story to Tell is available as a book or a kindle. http://betsybmurphy.com/ #Writing #RadioGorgeous   

The Cottage of New Beginnings with Suzanne Snow, we talk romance, gardening and spirituality with Josephine Pembroke

December 17, 2020 08:37 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB

Suzanne Snow has a fulfilling life as a plants woman, a novelist and sometime leader of worship in her local church in Lancashire. Hear how she has created her amazing life and made her dreams come true; becoming a published writer. #Author #RadioGorgeous #Romance https://www.suzannesnowauthor.com/ https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781800322196

MEGHAN MISUNDERSTOOD by Sean Smith Man Week on Radio Gorgeous

December 01, 2020 15:49 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MB

Today we are talking about the most controversial now ex-Royal MEGHAN, activist, actor, mother and Prince Harry’s partner. Sean has written a wonderful sympathetic book about a sadly much maligned woman MEGHAN MISUNDERSTOOD, is published by Harper Collins #Royals #RadioGorgeous #Meghan 

MAN WEEK: David Reynolds' Slow Road to San Francisco with Donna Freed

November 26, 2020 08:40 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MB

Ride shotgun with David Reynolds as he meanders across the USA on Route 50 from coast to coast seeking fellowship and IPA. David and his trusty auto-steed, Harpo, are the perfect companions for these days of armchair travel: they get lost so you don't have to. Often called 'The Loneliest Road in America,' Route 50 is a lot less so when accompanied by David Reynolds.  @MuswellPress @Radio_Gorgeous #roadtrip

Berkoff’s Women, with Linda Marlow LIVE STREAMING directed by comedian Josie Lawrence

November 12, 2020 15:30 - 29 minutes

Linda Marow trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.  Linda has a long with writer and director Steven Berkoff includes his plays Greek, Decadence, East, The Trial and Metamorphosis, Steven has described her as his muse.  Linda has been in many plays, films and TV you may remember her as as  he matriarch Sylvie Carter in EastEnders.  Linda is putting on a show very soon which we can all watch on Line Called: Berkoff’s Women directed by comedian Josie Lawrence. Berkoff’s Wom...

Berkoff’s Women, with Linda Marlowe LIVE STREAMING directed by comedian Josie Lawrence

November 12, 2020 15:30 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

Linda Marlowe trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.  Linda has a long with writer and director Steven Berkoff includes his plays Greek, Decadence, East, The Trial and Metamorphosis, Steven has described her as his muse.  Linda has been in many plays, films and TV you may remember her as as  he matriarch Sylvie Carter in EastEnders.  Linda is putting on a show very soon which we can all watch on Line Called: Berkoff’s Women directed by comedian Josie Lawrence. Berkoff’s ...

Betsy Bonner, The Book of Atlantis Black with Donna Freed

November 08, 2020 17:35 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MB

Betsy Bonner's sister Atlantis Black went missing and was found dead in a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico. She was 31 years old. Betsy set out to do what no one else in Atlantis' life did: find out what happened to her sister. How did she go from being a promising musician in New York to that hotel room in Mexico?  The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing, by Betsy Bonner www.tinhouse.com @Tin_House @Radio_Gorgeous

Radio Honey, by Tara Arkle is set in an all women's Radio Station! With Josephine Pembroke

November 06, 2020 13:46 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB

Tara Arkle has found out what she really wants to do - write. Being the daughter of super talented parents Anthony Newley and Joan Collins, meant it took a while for Tara to know her true direction. Now very happily settled in the West Country of England, as well as writing Tara supports her local women's refuge by organising a yearly march on Eliminate Violence For Women Day.  Please see here to register:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/created-forum-registration-126635655655://www.eventbrit...

The Happy Menopause - Smart Nutrition to Help You Flourish by Jackie Lynch with Radio Gorgeous

October 14, 2020 15:58 - 20 minutes - 19 MB

The menopause can be daunting and keeping feeling balanced is the key to happiness. Nutritional therapist Jackie Lynch gives us wise advice at this time when you can suffer with many debilitating symptons. https://www.well-well-well.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/WellWellWellUK/  #Menopause #RadioGorgeous #50+

You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals by E. Foley & B.Coates with Donna Freed

October 07, 2020 15:18 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB

Elizabeth and Beth tell us exciting and amusing feminist slants on Goddesses. They talk about Athena, Medusa and The Furies. The very ancient Goddesses often have wild, dark pasts; more like real women, don't be afraid of to use everything you have to get what you want.  #Goddesses #RadioGorgeous #Feminism 

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