Radio Gorgeous
Culture
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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United Kingdom
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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
Twitter:
@Radio_Gorgeous
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English
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07821 993676
Website:
http://www.radiogorgeous.com/
Email:
info@radiogorgeous.com
Episodes
MAN WEEK: Donna Freed with Geoff Deane, author of From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots
10/23/2023
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
Duration:01:01:26
Donna Freed with best-selling author Megan Ramos, The Essential Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women
6/20/2023
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
Duration:00:26:03
Donna Freed with Marisa Haetzman, one half of Ambrose Parry
5/17/2023
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
Duration:00:23:52
Part 2; Donna Freed with Christina Ford, author of In Search of Mr Darcy
4/18/2023
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
Duration:00:20:33
Part 1: Donna Freed with Christina Ford, author of In Search of Mr Darcy
4/17/2023
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
Duration:00:30:05
Donna Freed with The Ugly Truth author L. C. North
3/26/2023
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
Duration:00:14:03
Donna Freed with entrepreneur Susi Hartmann
3/21/2023
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
Duration:00:26:31
Donna Freed with Kate Hamer, author of The Lost Girls
2/19/2023
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
Duration:00:22:15
Donna Freed with The Chase author Ava Glass
2/15/2023
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
Duration:00:21:47
Donna Freed with author Kitty Murphy: Death in Heels
1/18/2023
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
Duration:00:20:11
Donna Freed with Sara Cox, founder of the Cheshire Novel Prize
1/18/2023
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
Duration:00:07:47
You'll Never Walk Alone - Interview with author Rachel Kelly about the power of poetry with Josephine Pembroke
12/7/2022
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
Rachel 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 Hodder
https://www.rachel-kelly.net/
#RadioGorgeous #RachelKelly #Poetry
Duration:00:23:41
Working Girls of Soho, Josephine Pembroke on Museum of Soho show on Soho Radio
11/14/2022
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 Club
Josephine's show is nostalgic and sometimes mournful, but always defiant. Robert Bathurst - Cold Feet, Downtown Abbey
Josephine's show has all the nostalgia and corrupt innocence of Soho, before the 'clean up.' Richard Stirling -Cecil Beaton's Diaries
Camp, Dazzling, Hilarious - Will, aged 17 Brit School Student
More info and tickets: https://linktr.ee/josephinepembroke
https://www.facebook.com/JosephinePemb
Twitter https://twitter.com/Josephine_Pem
Written by Josephine Pembroke
Director & Choreographer Lisa Mulidore
Musical Director Heather Longman
More Information:
https://www.radiogorgeous.com/
#RadioGorgeous #SohoRadio #WorkinggirlsofSoho
Duration:00:46:10
Donna Freed with True Story London founder Michelle Toth
11/13/2022
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
Duration:00:16:12
Donna Freed with Adam Zmith, author of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures MAN WEEK ON RADIO GORGEOUS
11/10/2022
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-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 #Queer
adamzmith.com @adamzmith
Duration:00:24:47
London's Lost Department Stores - A Vanished World of Dazzle and Dreams by Tessa Boase with Josephine Pembroke
10/28/2022
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
Duration:00:28:16
Donna Freed at the Corfu Literary Festival with Melanie Hewitt and Isabelle Broom
9/21/2022
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 Broom was joined by Mandy Baggot, A Taste of Greek Summer and Joy Skye, Corfu Capers.
#CorfuLiteraryFestival #BookFestival #RadioGorgeous
Duration:00:13:38
The Working Girls of Soho - Edinburgh Fringe 2022, with Josephine Pembroke and Donna Freed
8/2/2022
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 Pembroke
Piano by Linda Stewart
Musical Director Heather Longman
Directed by Lisa Mulidore
#EdFringe22 #WorkingGirlsofSoho #Cabaret
Duration:00:02:43
The Working Girls of Soho - Saucy Tales of Notorious Women by Josephine Pembroke with Donna Freed
8/2/2022
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 Freed, Radio Gorgeous
Show written and performed by Josephine Pembroke
Piano by Linda Stewart
Musical Director Heather Longman
Directed by Lisa Mulidore
#EdFringe22 #Cabaret #Radio Gorgeous
Duration:00:13:47
Donna Freed with Wanda Whiteley, author of The Goldhanger Dog
7/29/2022
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
Duration:00:19:56