Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous

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

Episodes

July 24, 2024 30 mins

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

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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. 
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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
 


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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 Shirle...
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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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 schoo...
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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: Ho...
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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 ...
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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 jus...
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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 h...
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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 shar...
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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. 

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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 ...
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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 kn...
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February 15, 2023 21 mins
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...
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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...
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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 t...
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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 re...
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