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• Mari Wilson POP DELUXE : 80’s Icon tells us about LIFE AS A POPSTAR! with Josephine Pembroke GORGEOUS ARCHIVES

  Jul 24, 2024 · 30:38

  Mari Wilson Pop Diva Aka, Miss Beehive, The Neasden Queen of Soul, Mari Wilson has remained “What I Always Wanted” since the 1980’s. She tells Josephine that her career has changed and evolved as the music industry has but her singing for an intimate audience is timeless. Emotional glamour indeed. Go see MARI http://www.mariwilson.co.uk

• RULA LENSKA - My Colourful Life on Gorgeous Lives archives with Josephine Pembroke

  Jun 28, 2024 · 46:31

  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 roles.  Josephine is now addicted to Rock Follies. Listen here for Rula's life story.

• TWIGGY - Her life, her fame, her fashion Radio Gorgeous Archives with Josephine Pembroke

  Jun 25, 2024 · 26:35

  In the 1960s Twiggy was the most famous model on the globe. And she was  as big as the Beatles and she was only 16. Hear Twiggy's story here on Radio Gorgeous.  Twiggy tells us about growing up in Neasden,  the madness of fame and her career as a model, film star, musical theatre star,  and more.ALL MUSIC CHOSEN BY TWIGGY http://www.twiggylawson.co.uk/@Twiggy

• Shirley Conran - SUPERWOMAN - Radio Gorgeous Archives with Josephine Pembroke

  Jun 25, 2024 · 55:03

  The late Shirley Conran tells us about her new book then quickly moves onto her whole life story.  Shirley's early divorce, along with her innate and pragmatic design sense and a gift for teaching has driven Shirley Conran to do many things: free women from housework (Superwoman), teach girls about sex (Lace), demand a work/life balance and she has now turned to money and maths. Women don’t have enough money and as Shirley says, money matters because it gets things done! She has done her research and made it fun, accessible and relevant. She tells Josephine Pembroke  how and why she is the maverick that she is. Radio Gorgeous - Gorgeous Lives image: Josephine with Shirley and they both wore hot pink!

• Emma Bridgewater - Her life and Her pots with Josephine Pembroke on Radio Gorgeous Archives

  Jun 20, 2024 · 24:29

  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 and is off on another adventure. She talks to Josephine about her life and her book: Toast & Marmalade and Other Stories.www.emmabridgewater.co.uk@EmmaBridgewater#emmabridgewater #pottery #china #tea #coffee #toast #entrepreneurs #designer #plates #women #interviews #radio #gorgeous #baking #kitchen

• KATE ADIE - The Journalist - on Fighting on The Home Front and women and war by with Josephine Pembroke Radio Gorgeous Archives

  Jun 15, 2024 · 24:23

  Kate Adie presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4. Kate talks to Josephine Pembroke interviews Kate about her book and her life as a very special correspondent. It became something of a joke in the British army that when Kate Adie arrived on the scene, the soldiers knew they were in trouble.The BBC’s chief news correspondent became one of the best-known faces on television for her reporting from the major wars of recent years. They include the Gulf War, the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Rwanda, China and Sierra Leone.It cannot have occurred to the 23-year-old from Sunderland, with her degree in Scandinavian Studies, that this was where she was heading when she joined the BBC in 1968 as a studio technician in local radio.

• WAR PAINT - Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein the makeup wars by Lindsay Woodhead with Josephine Pembroke Radio Gorgeous Archives

  Jun 15, 2024 · 50:55

  We love makeup, it gives us confidence – a splurge at the make up counter cheers us up. And, we are always hoping to find that miracle in the jar. Lindy Woodhead and the has written a book about the creation of the beauty industry as we know it. Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein may have been on your mother’s dressing table, but I bet you have owned a tube of 8 Hour Cream and you probably cleanse tone and moisturise – all the things these grand dames on beauty invented. Listen now to to be beautified, entertained and more.WAR PAINT  - Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein, The makeup wars by Lindsay Woodhead with Josephine Pembroke Radio Gorgeous Archives

• LAURA ASHLEY A Life in Design by Anne Sebba - Radio Gorgeous Archives with Josephine Pembroke

  Jun 14, 2024 · 35:34

  LAURA ASHLEY A Life in Design by Anne Sebba  with Josephine Pembroke Laura Ashley’s vision was very different from the retailing conglomerate we knew.   Laura Ashley had a vision: Go back home and create hand made cotton clothes dyed with natural colours and made up in her own factory in rural wales. She gave jobs to the community especially women who were encouraged to leave early and collect the children from school. Laura’s pattern cutter was an ex sheep shearer, what better person to do this exacting work. Laura loved families, beauty and hankered for the past. She actually was a girl from suburbia who had been in the Wren’s during the war…tragically she died in 1984. Hear the whole story passionately told by author Anne Sebba who is the only person to have written an authorised biography of Laura.  #Fashion #Author #Podcast  annesebba.comFB: https://www.facebook.com/radiogorgeous/

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

  Oct 23, 2023 · 1:01:26

  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. A master raconteur, Geoff's tales of his Hackney origins to Hollywood hijinks are littered with Cockney rhyming slang, Yiddish and Polari. @Radio_Gorgeous @Freed_Donna @MuswellPress

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

  Jun 20, 2023 · 26:03

  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 reversed her diabetes within 6 months and has now helped over 20,000 people to improve their health through intermittent fasting. @Radio_Gorgeous @Freed_Donna @meganjramos @greystonebooks @drjasonfung @fastingmethod#wellbeing #fasting

• Donna Freed with Marisa Haetzman, one half of Ambrose Parry

  May 17, 2023 · 23:52

  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 Consultant Anaesthetist, Marisa made a mid-life decision to study the history of medicine. She discovered tales of medical hijinks so wild that her husband, best-selling crime writer Chris Brookmyre, suggested that they join forces and exploit the rich possibilities of invention and murder in the Victorian Age. @Radio_Gorgeous @ambroseparry @canongatebooks #VoicesoftheDead

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

  Apr 18, 2023 · 20:33

  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 @iconbooks insta @abroad.inlondon

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

  Apr 17, 2023 · 30:05

  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, the unruly, wire-haired dachshund showed up. Look out for Part 2! @abroad.inlondon  @iconbooks  @Radio_Gorgeous#memoir#podcast

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

  Mar 26, 2023 · 14:03

  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

  Mar 21, 2023 · 26:31

  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 came with the onset of menopause. She is speaking about her experience at the Bingham Riverhouse on Monday, 27th March at 6:30 BOOK and more info HERE@BRiverhouse   www.beaumontawareness.com   @Radio_Gorgeous

• Donna Freed with Kate Hamer, author of The Lost Girls

  Feb 19, 2023 · 22:15

  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 that she must confront the preacher in order to uncover the truth. @Radio_Gorgeous @kate_hamer @FaberBooks #TheLostGirls

• Donna Freed with The Chase author Ava Glass

  Feb 15, 2023 · 21:47

  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 personal experience that became the inspiration for the book.  @Radio_Gorgeous @PenguinUKBooks @CJ_Daugherty #TheChase

• Donna Freed with author Kitty Murphy: Death in Heels

  Jan 18, 2023 · 20:11

  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 & Mercer and Death in the Dark, the second in the series, is due out in April 2023. www.radiogorgeous.com @kitty_murphy_writes @scribblingink1 #DeathinHeels

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

  Jan 18, 2023 · 7:58

  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 memoir writers and is accepting submissions until 1st April 2023.www.cheshirenovelprize.com @prize_novel @saranaidinecox #CheshireNovelPrize

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

  Dec 7, 2022 · 23:42

  You'll Never Walk Alone - Poems for life's up and downsRachel 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 peoplRachel now speaks publicly about her experience of depression and recovery in an effort to reduce stigma and educate people about the reality of mental illness. She also runs workshops for mental health charities to share what she has learnt about how to stay calm and with the power of poetry.Published by Hodderhttps://www.rachel-kelly.net/#RadioGorgeous #RachelKelly #Poetry

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

  Nov 14, 2022 · 48:50

  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, Josephine really was there, she lived in Dean Street in the 80's listen to Soho history. "Josephine oozes glamour" Christopher Moss - A n'er do well.Edinburgh Reviews:Wit, charm and plenty of sauce! Sophie Parkin - Author of The Colony Room ClubJosephine's show is nostalgic and sometimes mournful, but always defiant. Robert Bathurst - Cold Feet, Downtown AbbeyJosephine's show has all the nostalgia and corrupt innocence of Soho, before the 'clean up.' Richard Stirling -Cecil Beaton's DiariesCamp, Dazzling, Hilarious - Will, aged 17 Brit School StudentMore info and tickets: https://linktr.ee/josephinepembrokehttps://www.facebook.com/JosephinePembTwitter https://twitter.com/Josephine_PemWritten by Josephine PembrokeDirector & Choreographer Lisa MulidoreMusical Director Heather LongmanMore Information:https://www.radiogorgeous.com/#RadioGorgeous #SohoRadio #WorkinggirlsofSoho

• Donna Freed with True Story London founder Michelle Toth

  Nov 13, 2022 · 16:14

  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 shared and open experience provides a platform for creative connections. She is the founder of True Story London, an evening of live storytellling at 21Soho in London. The next show is 28 November and as always will feature an eclectic line-up of people - including Radio Gorgeous' own Donna Freed - sharing crafted, true personal stories. Tickets and info HERE www.truestorylondon.com @truestorylondon #TrueStory #RadioGorgeous #DonnaFreed

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

  Nov 10, 2022 · 26:18

  MAN WEEK ON RADIO GORGEOUS Donna Freed with Adam Zmith, author of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer FuturesAdam 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-winning podcast The Log Books and is short-listed for this year's Polari First Book Prize.  Deep Sniff is also Adam's feel-good political manifesto for un-stoppered, physical and emotional euphoria by way of poppers (amyl and other nitrates)! #RadioGorgeous #ManWeek #Queeradamzmith.com @adamzmith

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

  Oct 28, 2022 · 28:16

  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

  Sep 21, 2022 · 13:40

  Donna Freed at the Corfu Literary Festival with Melanie Hewitt and Isabelle BroomDonna 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 Broom was joined by Mandy Baggot, A Taste of Greek Summer and Joy Skye, Corfu Capers. #CorfuLiteraryFestival #BookFestival #RadioGorgeous

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

  Aug 2, 2022 · 2:54

  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 Gorgeous Show written and performed by Josephine PembrokePiano by Linda StewartMusical Director Heather Longman Directed by Lisa Mulidore#EdFringe22 #WorkingGirlsofSoho #Cabaret

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

  Aug 2, 2022 · 14:44

  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/josephinepembrokehttps://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 Show written and performed by Josephine PembrokePiano by Linda StewartMusical Director Heather Longman Directed by Lisa Mulidore#EdFringe22 #Cabaret #Radio Gorgeous

• Donna Freed with Wanda Whiteley, author of The Goldhanger Dog

  Jul 29, 2022 · 19:57

  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 to brand her as a witch. She finds shelter in the court of Princess Mary in the dangerous times of uncertain succession while the boy-king Edward lay on his deathbed. An immersive read with some delicious magical elements appropriate for young adults and beyond. @Radio_Gorgeous www.radiogorgeous.com @wanda_whiteley @midaspr  @Freed_Donna

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

  May 31, 2022 · 27:00

  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 · 12:28

  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 https://www.radiogorgeous.com/

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

  Dec 9, 2021 · 34:43

  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

  Dec 3, 2021 · 38:28

  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

  Nov 20, 2021 · 24:58

  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 his life. Tales from the Braslou Biere Chronicles...@MuswellPress @Radio_Gorgeous @Freed_Donna #beer #books

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

  Sep 23, 2021 · 39:59

  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

  Sep 17, 2021 · 10:44

  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 which will be showing as a staged reading on 26 September at the Drayton Arms at 2:30pm.  The reading at the Drayton Arms is part of a year-long, international project commemorating the death of Marilyn Monroe 60 years ago. For all the information visit @OneNIghtWithMarilyn@Radio_gorgeous @Freed_Donna @OneNightWithMarilyn #theatre #actors #playwright #MarilynMonroe

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

  Sep 3, 2021 · 7:13

  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! #books #author #crimefiction https://www.muswell-press.co.uk/@Radio_gorgeous  @MuswellPress @HeidiAmsinck1

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

  Jun 24, 2021 · 7:21

  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

  Jun 21, 2021 · 19:05

  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. #OneWomanShow #AdorableDora #RadioGorgeous https://www.rosemaryashe.com/https://twitter.com/rosemaryashe

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

  Jun 16, 2021 · 25:22

  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 wild ride, and she has written a memoir of her mother called Diamonds at the Lost and Found published by 4THESTATE.co.uk.#Memoir #RadioGorgeous #20thCentury

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

  May 14, 2021 · 31:26

  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 by UNBOUND https://unbound.com/books/women-on-nature/

• Donna Freed with Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne

  May 11, 2021 · 19:52

  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 exploration of a glittering world created and inhabited by gods who have all the attributes of man but none of the consequences, and how two young women, princesses of Crete, granddaughters of the sun god Helios, navigate in their wake. @Bookywookydooda @jennysaint www.jennifersaint.com @Radio_Gorgeous

• My Journey to Judaism - OSHER by Tetiana Michaels

  Apr 26, 2021 · 24:02

  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!

  Apr 22, 2021 · 32:18

  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 for Dreamers

  Apr 20, 2021 · 29:48

  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 Peel Me a Lotus are personal and travel memoirs that feel as fresh and crisp as when they were written but also serve as time travel, back to a time before mass travel. Inspired by one of the lines that the fictional Charmian said in A Theatre for Dreamers, Polly Samson wrote the lyrics to the song Yes, I Have Ghosts, sung here by her husband, Pink Floyd vocalist and guitarist David Gilmour and their daughter Romany Gilmour. @PollySamson @MuswellPress muswell-press.co.uk pollysamson.com

• Donna Freed with Isabel Costello - author of Scent

  Apr 3, 2021 · 25:33

  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 Costello' in conjunction with Barnet Libraries and Muswell Press on April 21 7-8. Tickets are free and can be booked on Eventbrite HERE.@isabelcostello @MuswellPress @Brownlee_Donald

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

  Apr 1, 2021 · 38:49

  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-Pleasing-Transform-ebook/dp/B08H85TP24Available as a book, audio book & kindle#RadioGorgeous #peoplepleasing #therapy

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

  Feb 22, 2021 · 26:54

  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

  Jan 28, 2021 · 26:10

  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

  Dec 17, 2020 · 20:28

  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

  Dec 1, 2020 · 42:56

  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