Show Us Your Bits

Our stylish guest, Lauren Bravo, is known for writing on fashion, food, pop culture, travel, and feminism for outlets including Sunday Times Style, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Stylist, and The Guardian. Lauren's first book, 'What Would The Spice Girls Do?', is a pop-culture look at girl power and 90s nostalgia. She says they weren't given much credit back in the day, but were so influential for a genera...

Fresh from the tennis at Eastbourne, Alice and Josie are joined by bestselling author Erin Kelly for a summer special. She talks glossy-mag capers, getting drunk for free five nights a week in nineties London, and writing The Poison Tree in six months once motherhood made freelancing impossible. Plus her new novel The Night Stairs , a chilling tale of fainting, hysteria and secrets at a Yorkshire...

The entrepreneur who solved the problem of non-biodegradable balloons, CEO and co-founder of Bioloon, Charlotte Melia joins us from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity to tell the astounding story of her discovery. Her story starts with humble beginnings on the Isle of Wight. As a child she dreamed of becoming an actress, but after returning from a theatre tour pregnant, she real...

From Jilly Cooper to Take That what do they have in common? This week’s guest, international bestselling author, entrepreneur and inveterate traveller Tasmina Perry. Long before the bestselling novels and publishing success, Tasmina was a bored trainee lawyer, working in a hot dog caravan at Granada Studio Tours, dreaming of becoming a journalist. Then one day she spotted a group of young dancers...

We’re on a health and wellbeing vibe this week talking about being off the booze and our love of Pavari cocktails, plus our secret addiction to the new season of Rivals. We’re also having a very down to earth honest chat with our guest - actor, podcaster, public speaker and coach, Salima Saxton.  Salima’s candid talk for The Moth has had millions of views on YouTube and is the story on which...

It's a pop of colour this week with flamboyant, fabulous founder Pauline Paterson from Dr. PAWPAW. Pauline founded her company in 2013 with her husband Johnny, when their daughter developed eczema as a baby. The doctors recommended steroid cream but, being a hairdresser, Pauline knew how harsh chemicals could be — and just how delicate a baby's skin was. Back in Australia, the paw-paw fruit (a.k.a...

Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside! Oh we do like to be beside the sea... Alice and Josie take to Brighton beach for this week's episode, because who doesn't love the British riviera when the sun is blazing down and everyone is in a good mood? Basking on the stones (and looking for hag stones - the special lucky pebbles with holes in), Josie regales Alice with her recent adventures in the Can...

In this episode of Show Us Your Bits, Alice and Josie are joined by the brilliant Ciara Crossan, founder of Wedding Dates, for a conversation full of adventure, instinct, motherhood, bold decisions and the magic of saying yes. From backpacking around the world with kilos of sand in her suitcase, to just saying 'yes' and flying across the world to LA for the Grammy Awards with a DJ friend after bei...

This week on Show Us Your Bits, hosts Alice Rivers Cripps and Josie Lloyd are deep in the Brighton Festival - and in the spirit of May Madness, they have brought on one of Brighton's most distinctive characters to help make sense of it all. Their guest is Jed Novick, veteran journalist, former lecturer at Brighton University and the founder of a brand new Brighton arts and culture magazine called...

Welcome to Season 10 of Show Us Your Bits -- and what a milestone it is. In this opening episode, hosts Alice Rivers Cripps and Josie Lloyd reunite after the summer break to catch up on everything that happened while they were apart, before teasing an exciting new season of guests. Alice shares the extraordinary story of a three-day charity walk across the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, organise...

Co-founder and CEO of Warners Gin Distillery, Tina Warner-Keogh started off with a mission in 2012 to save the world from mediocre gin. From a farming family, she used her gut as her guide and nature as her inspiration to diversify her husband Tom’s family farm, installing a still and growing botanicals. Tina tells the story of starting a business from scratch to pioneering the world’s first rhuba...

Internationally best-selling author Gill Paul has written plenty of non-fiction, but has turned her love of history into writing ‘what-if’ novels, taking real historical figures and weaving stories around them. It was her experience of teenage heartbreak that led to her write about the Romanovs in The Secret Life and The Lost Daughter, but she’s tackled all sorts of eras, from Jazz age New York, t...

Our funny, down-to-earth guest this week is a PR adviser, marketing expert, author, podcaster and business coach who started out helping small businesses in the equestrian and rural space, but has picked the brains of a host of ‘rock-star’ entrepreneurs for her podcast and book, ‘You’ve Got This - How to Supercharge your business and conquer your goals’.  Rhea says that even the most suc...

Customer-focussed Hayley joins us to talk about her fabulous brand Eleven Loves. Having spotted the gap in the market for stylish everyday-wear, she started with printed T-shirt and sweatshirts, but what started as a side-hustle has grown into a serious business, focussed on sustainability. In a world where we’re bombarded by choice, she’s developed a tool for customers to identify their style per...

We’re all about female empowerment this week and we’re delighted to be joined by the founder of the UK’s first eco-friendly period underwear brand. Ruby talks about how she started WUKA to provide sustainable alternatives to traditional menstrual products and to break the stigma surrounding menstruation. Growing up in Nepal, periods were never spoken about and during them, she was separated from h...

We’re joined by the internationally bestselling author of Broken Country, (Amazon’s book of the year), an incredible book about a passionate love triangle in set in Dorset in the 50’s and 60’s. Clare tells us about the genesis of the book, the rocky writing process, and what it feels like to ride the wave of international success, and how readers have connected with her themes of first love and lo...

Join us for a fascinating chat about the psychology of clothes with our special guest. Dahlia was stressed but well dressed herself in a big corporate career, when her job came to an end, she felt she’d lost her identity and was all dressed up with nowhere to go. She set up her podcast to share her story and she realised that everyone had a clothes story and were using their clothes for confidence...

We welcome Jules Acton, author of Oaklore, Adventures in a World of Extraordinary Trees. We’ve all been affected by the oak trees we’ve encountered in our lives and they feature hugely in our culture, not least of all the 400 Royal Oak pubs in the UK. In addition, Jules reveals that over two thousand species are supported by the oak tree and how oak trees, worshipped by the druids, can become immo...

We’re joined this dry January with the founder of Noughty, the delicious alcohol-free fizz. Having had a career in fine wine, Amanda pivoted be a pioneer and now a market leader in alcohol-free wine, fuelled by a desire to feel the buzz without the hangover. Trained in champagne and fine wines and having worked with the world’s top sommeliers, award-winning Noughty is a game changer. She tells us...

Join us for our 75th episode with our round up of our favourite moments from another fabulous year of podcasting as we discuss how our guests have inspired our Christmas present list. We reminisce about the wonderful and often poignant keepsakes our guests brought along to show us, like the picture Illirana Gashi from Women For Women International showed us from her son, when she got her family to...

International best-selling author Lulu Taylor joins us to talk about her latest novel, The Legacy of Secrets. With her trademark elements of a winter setting, a spectacular country house and a family riddled with secrets and complexities, this must-read page-turner has us gripped. Lulu shares stories from her writing life and shares the mystery behind her grandmother’s diamonds, as well as the spe...

Resourceful Michelle Ford is a ray of sunshine on the podcast this week. Having lived all over the world, it was whilst in America that she cashed in on the novelty of her English accent and became a voice-over artist. After a successful career, she pivoted in midlife after her Covid lockdown chats with her neighbour inspired them to start a podcast. Two Women Chatting is full of midlife wisdom wi...

This week we’re discussing essential fashion tips for transforming your wardrobe with down to earth influencer, Michelle Barret. She tells us about her extraordinary career, talking her way into working in costumes on big movies to being a stylist for celebrities like Katy Perry. As a single mum, juggling it all hasn’t been easy, but after the pandemic, Michelle’s career pivoted when she did a war...

 Never Give Up – with Jo Godden from Ruby Moon   It’s publication day for Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency   – Josie’s cosy crime is out in the world! We’re chatting about new projects, including Alice’s gorgeous NEW dinky charm bracelet collection   This week’s guest, Jo Godden from @ rubymoon.uk , is pure inspiration   She’s the founder of an ethical, sust...

In this Halloween Special, Alice and Josie join forces to share some of their own special ‘bits’ that mean the most to them. Full of anecdotes and laughter, their chat includes the story behind Alice’s sky-scraping unwearable Manolo Blahnik black stilettos on display in a glass case, as well as the story behind Josie’s tube poster of her first novel, It Could Be You. Alice, who says she’s a keeper...