
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
Jul 24, 2024
30 min

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.
Jun 28, 2024
46 min

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
Jun 25, 2024
26 min

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!
Jun 25, 2024
55 min

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
Jun 20, 2024
24 min

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.
Jun 15, 2024
24 min

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
Jun 15, 2024
50 min

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/
Jun 14, 2024
35 min

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
Oct 23, 2023
1 hr 1 min

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
Jun 20, 2023
26 min
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