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Recycled Bottle Houses for the Homeless ALEAH LEIGH on RADIO GORGEOUS with Josephine Pembroke House the Homeless, one wine bottle at a time Aleah Leigh, fashion designer. Having been homeless herself is only one of the reasons that Aleah Leigh is so passionate about helping to house the homeless. Her fashion is frequently up cycled items and she has built a prototype house out of recycled wine bot...

Angela Lownie THE House Detective on Radio Gorgeous with Josephine Pembroke Angela started out by being interested in her own family history. Then as her passion for history and social history grew, she went on a course and is now a house detective. She finds out secrets and stories of London houses. She tells us about shameful marriages and a double murder in Chelsea. Contact Angela: http://www.l...

RITA SAYS Interior Expert GORGEOUS LIVING on Radio Gorgeous with Josephine Pembroke Rita Konig gives us ideas, tips and inspiration. Make your life more comfortable and luxurious with great ideas to suit your life. Rita welcomes us into her own home where she invites you to come on to her invaluable workshops. Find out about the courses https://ritakonig.com/products/workshops/ Follow Rita https:/...

Saving Phoebe Murrow is a mother/daughter story or rather the story of several mothers and teenage daughters and repeated patterns through the generations. How far would you go to protect your daughter and how do you do that in the age of social media? @hertafeely Love to read? Sign up to Gorgeous Mail at www.radiogorgeous.com #authoroftheweek #books #donnafreed #parenting #socialmedia

XMAS BROWNIE ALERT! Port-spiced Christmas tree brownies The GORGEOUS Kitchen with Josephine & Donna - A Sainbury's Magazine Recipe Watch out! Elves about - thanks god for those little folk. It's perfect timing as Josephine and Donna are pooped from the round of xmas parties, shopping and carol services. This is a Sainsbury’s recipe in association with Sainsbury’s Magazine. For more information...

In the GORGEOUS KITCHEN with Josephine & Donna This succulent salad would be a perfect lunch or starter at Christmas, you could use other meats too. Donna and Josephine scoff the lot and wash it down with Pink clementine fizz. How christmassy can you go? This is a Sainsbury’s recipe in association with Sainsbury’s Magazine. For more information, go to www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk , and you wil...

We enter the world private world of Adele. Sean Smith the celebrity biographer tells us about his latest book and the rise of Adele. Follow Sean @SeanSmithCeleb Buy the book http://seansmithceleb.com/about/ We love men and women on RADIO GORGEOUS sign up & never miss a podcast www.radiogorgeous.com #Adele #AdeleBiog #Celeb #ManWeek

HIS BLOODY PROJECT Graeme Macrae Burnet MAN WEEK AUTHOR INTERVIEW with Donna Freed If you've been living under a rock, perhaps you missed the hoopla surrounding this year's Man Booker Prize short list. It featured a "crime novel" published by tiny Scottish imprint Contraband and Graeme has since been all over the news like a rash. It is wildly well deserved as he is gorgeous, clever, talented and...

Want your garden redesigned? JOHN WYER Gardener gives us the best tips! MAN WEEK with Donna Freed on RADIO GORGEOUS A career officer at school suggested that John should become a garden designer and he has done just that with aplomb. John tells us how to create an urban garden and gives great suggestions, inspirations and practical tips that will benefit all gardeners. Follow @WyerJohn http://www....

BYRON'S WOMEN Alexander Larman Man Week on Radio Gorgeous with Josephine Pembroke Hear literary man Alexander Larman tell Josephine about Byron’s women. Part of Man Week on Radio Gorgeous. http://alexanderlarman.com/ Follow Alex: @alexlarman Buy the book: http://headofzeus.com/books/byrons-women Radio Gorgeous for curious women sign up www.radiogorgeous.com

GORGEOUS ENTREPRENEUR Time to WALK and TALK 4 Success Judith Rayner After the umpteenth webinar encouraging her to combine what she loved the way she loved, business coach Judith Rayner hit upon walking. She has found, through her all female rambling network group, that we are more relaxed, open and creative when we walk together as opposed to stiffly sitting down staring each across a table. http...

Where Femmes can meet Femmes PINK LOBSTER DATING Juliette Prais GORGEOUS ENTREPRENEUR with Donna Freed For lipstick lesbians in the UK and USA. When femme lesbian Juliette Prais started on-line dating she ran into more than the usual nightmares. Somehow, even to other lesbians she didn't seem like a "proper" lesbian because she was a feminine woman looking to be with another feminine woman. Once h...

Hayley Quinn is a Gorgeous Entrepreneur After working in the pick-up industry and then the dating world, she decided advice needed to get real. And get in our favour. We're talking no more 'The Rules' - and even changing the paradigm of finding love. The Feminist Dating Guru tells us more... https://hayleyquinn.com Follow Hayley: @HayleyQuinn #Dating #Women #Feminism #London

Magda Szubanski RECKONING - A MEMOIR with Donna Freed on Radio GORGEOUS Beloved Australian performer and actor (the wife in Babe), Magda Szubanski's memoir Reckoning is a moving account and attempt to reconcile the traumatic effects of World War II on her Polish father as visited upon her childhood as well as an exuberant, joyful and heartbreaking search for her own identity. Follow Magda @MagdaSz...

iO Tillet Wright DARLING DAYS a memoir Gorgeous Reads on RADIO GORGEOUS Named after one of Jupiter's moons iO Tillet Wright is an author, activist and photographer. In this honest memoir iO explains how it was being brought up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 80's and 90's where being eccentric or weird was normal. The memoir starts with a moving letter from iO to his mum who was a showg...

A dancer a deb and a Socialite - Josephine Loewenstein WIND IN MY HAIR a Kaleidoscope of Memories Gorgeous Lives on Radio Gorgeous with Josephine Pembroke Josephine could have gone down the obvious route for a girl of her class born during the war; marriage at eighteen and a stultifying life in the country. Josephine had bigger dreams, she became a professional dancer, learnt Italian and lived in...

Despite being blessed with a lovely family and a sunny disposition, as a writer Lucie Whitehouse likes going to the dark side of human nature. She sets her suspenseful psycodrama in Oxford, among a family of artists and academics, in the town where she herself went to university. @LWhitehouse5 Love to read? Sign up to Gorgeous Mail at www.radiogorgeous.com #authoroftheweek #books #luciewhitehouse...

Jemma Wayne CHAINS OF SAND with DONNA FREED on Radio Gorgeous Jemma Wayne uses Israel's latest conflict with Hamas to explore the grey areas beyond the black and white of headlines and what we think we know. She tells the story of two men, one Israeli and one English and a forbidden love affair in the past that impacts on their present. http://www.jemmawayne.com Follow: https://twitter.com/writeje...

Joanna Lumley reads BUSINESS GIRLS by John Betjeman as part of The Betjeman Poetry Prize for young people aged 10 - 13 for more info see the website below. http://www.betjemanpoetryprize.co.uk/ #Poetry #Young #Literacy

Victoria Blisse EROTIC Fiction featuring CURVIER WOMEN - Literary Lusts on RADIO GORGEOUS Victoria set out to write erotic fiction 15 years ago before women really caught on to erotica. Victoria's books feature curvy women with bellies, busts and bottoms - she explains that she gives larger women a chance to feel confident about their sexuality. The reason she chose real women is that she finds in...

The brains behind QI - ANNE MILLER - Gorgeous Reads with Donna Freed Did you ever wonder how Stephen Fry, and now Sandy Toksvig, know all those wierd and wonderful facts on QI? It's all done by elves! Behind the scenes, elves, like Anne Miller, research the flabbergasting truths about our world. We talk fact finding and collective nouns as well as John Lloyd CBE's creations QI and BBC 4's Museum o...

GLUTEN FREE XMAS CAKE mincemeat, clementine & almond cake SAINSBURY'S RECIPE Gorgeous Kitchen with Josephine & Donna Josephine finds gluten free mincemeat in Sainsbury's and sources the cooking brandy. Donna controls the situation by getting the cake in the oven on time and she tries to keep some order in the GORGEOUS Kitchen. Very festive. This is a Sainsbury’s recipe in association with...

Josephine and Donna get set for Xmas with a vegan recipe which is a great alternative to the tired nut cutlet. Josephine gets excited about the history of the Parsnip. Yum yum. This is a Sainsbury’s recipe in association with Sainsbury’s Magazine. For more information, go to www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk , and you will find these recipes in NOVEMBER 2016 edition of Sainsbury’s Magazine. Enjoyed thi...

Sophie was bound to be artistic her Mother is a notorious Bohemian in London, her father was Michael Parkin gallery owner and man around town. Sophie's 18 birthday present from her parents was membership to The Chelsea Arts Club and The Colony Rooms in Soho. Sophie resisted owning her own club until her friends pestered her so much she gave in and now runs and own; Vout O Reenees. Sophie tells us...

AUTHOR OF THE WEEK As a talented author and journalist, Brigid Keenan has worked at The Sunday Times and Nova magazine, written two fashion books and penned two memoirs about her life as a diplomat’s wife. She’s currently a Fashion Editor on The Oldie magazine and has released her most recent book, ‘Full Marks for Trying: An unlikely journey from the Raj to the rag trade’ - a touching and hilariou...