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We’re thrilled to welcome journalist, author, and an award-winning podcaster Gilly Smith, who brings us deep into the world of food, culture, and tells us about how she’s carved out a unique position in the world of food media. From interviews with top chefs to uncovering the ethical and cultural sides of cuisine in her podcast ‘Cooking The Books’, Gilly has an unmatched knack for connecting peopl...

Our guest this week is entrepreneur Justine Rouch, who has worked for some of the world’s most recognised and luxurious brands. With a love of fashion and sports, Justine has traveled all over the world, but found she was always in need of a bag to put her gym kit in, or her wet swimming costume after a swim. With a break between jobs for her and her husband, Mike, in 2016, they decided to set up...

It’s all about costumes this week as Josie heads to New York and is getting a costume together for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Talking of costume jewellery, their guest this week is Sophie Adler Mckean who tells us the story of her great aunt Mimi, who came to the UK via Greece as a refugee escaping Austria before the war. Mimi’s father set up a factory making the metal parts of bailey bridges,...

Hot on the back of the book launch, Josie and Alice chat about Josie’s new cosy crime novel, ‘Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency’ which is published this week. Along the way, they talk about their love of Rivals on the TV and Alice’s crush on the original Rupert Campbell-Black and plan their Rivals party. Josie talks about her inspiration for the book - her mother’s copy of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household...

Join us for an inspiring and uplifting chat with our guest, best-selling author Freya North to kick off the new season. After taking her son to University, Freya was reminded of her own experience of leaving home for the first time and wrote her sixteenth novel, ‘The Unfinished Business of Edie Browne’. She describes it as a love letter to youth and also a love letter to a time and a place. Set in...

Join us for some seaside fun as Alice and Josie wrap up Season 4 and look back on our inspirational guests and the nuggets of wisdom they’ve shared from ‘being more sloth’ to ‘never listening to the no’s’.  In a series where we’ve been talking bout re-invention, we’ve heard about the ingenious ways in which our guests have used their circumstances to take a different path to success - al...

Meet Jo Tutchener, who founded her amazing company Scamp and Dude after a life-changing brain haemorrhage made her completely reassess her life. She realised that if she were to die, she hadn’t done enough to help people and vowed that if she got better, she’d do something to make a difference. Terrified of leaving her young sons when she went into brain surgery, the idea of the Superhero Sleep Bu...

This week, meet journalist and broadcaster, Bibi Lynch. Starting out as a performer and cabaret star, Bibi has never taken a conventional route. Realising she was better at writing than singing, she jostled herself into journalism, working in magazines, then on into TV, followed by a prolific career broadcasting and now podcasting. She’s fearlessly used her platform to shine a light on important s...

Reinventing from a career in the entertainment industry in L.A. to creating the fastest growing underwear brand in the UK, Lemonade Dolls, we’re delighted to meet the inspirational Lemon Fuller.  Lemon is on a mission to create comfortable, fun and stylish underwear with inclusivity and diversity at the heart of her business. She is passionate about representing as many women as possible...

It’s all about books this week, as Josie receives the proof copies of her new novel, Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency and presents one to Alice. We have a special guest, author Eve Chase, who has been hailed as the modern Daphne Du Maurier. Her gripping new book, The Midnight Hour is set between Notting Hill in 1998, (when the movie was being filmed) and the present day when a devastating family s...

We’re foodies this week with the co-founder of Bill’s restaurant, Tania Webb. With decades of experience in the restaurant business, she’s lived and worked worldwide, being responsible for creating some amazing restaurant concepts. But back in her home town of Lewes, she spotted the opportunity when her brother-in-law Bill had a veg shop and fate, the big Lewes flood, conspired to make them set up...

We’re all about wellbeing this week, as Josie returns from a retreat in Spain. We talk to very special guest @nicolaelliottneom founder of @neomwellbeing  She talks us through her journey from working in glossy magazines to realising her ambition to be an entrepreneur. When she started suffering from anxiety and realised she wasn’t taking care of herself, she started blending essential oils t...

We’re being luvvies this week and talking theatrics as Alice embraces a dozen shows in one weekend at the Brighton festival. Our guest is Theatre Director of the iconic Theatre Royal in Brighton.  Sophie talks us through her fascinating job and the huge restoration project the theatre is undergoing, as well as some of the fascinating history including the inside scoop on the resident gho...

Alice and Josie are springing into summer with jumpsuits and fake Chanel. They are joined by glamorous guest, Josephine Pembroke who shares her incredible journey from being the naughtiest girl at school to getting chucked out of drama school to setting up her girl band Pussies Galore and taking Soho by storm in the early 90’s. After a stint working in radio, she set up Radio Gorgeous in 2009 whic...

Kicking off Season Four, Alice and Josie are delighted to interview former editor-in-Chief of Elle, Sunday Times Style and Cosmopolitan and co-host of the phenomenally successful podcast, Postcards From Midlife, Lorraine Candy. In her latest book, 'What’s Wrong With Me’ from Unravelling to Reinvention, A Midlife Memoir, Lorraine tackles everything from empty nest, career reinvention, sex, mar...

Our guest, journalist, radio and TV presenter Daisy McAndrew is a Royal Commentator for NBC the big American network, so her work is cut out with their obsession with our royal family. Daisy shares some of her stories from her fascinating career, including what it was like to report on the late Queen’s death. But politics is her first love she shares how, at the age of 13 she wanted to be a spy an...

There are 27 armed conflicts in the world going on right now and this week we’re talking to Sara Bowcutt, the Managing Director of Women For Women UK, an incredible charity that invests in the power and potential of women affected by war.  The charity enrols women into a twelve month programme and helps them by supporting their health and well-being, teaching them about their rights, gives th...

A podcast full of sunshine with photographer, director and videographer Jerome Maas, who talks to us from Cape Town. He’s living his dream life, shooting campaigns for International travel and lifestyle brands. Born in the US, but growing up in the UK, Jerome describes how his childhood was inspired by his parents’ monthly subscription to National Geographic magazine and says he was...

Join Alice and Josie as they debrief about Mother's Day and the Oscars. They're also talking about puppy training with Pickle, and Alice learning to interpret tail signals in the park. Plus, Josie gives her verdict on her cultural weekend which included Dune II and The Duchess Of Malfi. And, with a sixteenth birthday on the horizon Alice and Josie discuss the etiquette of shooting people in L...

Alice and Josie are looking back at the inspirational women they’ve interviewed in this series so far, and are talking about International Women’s Day.  With it being awards season and the Oscars coming up, they’re discussing their love of movies and Alice’s continued love affair with the Barbie movie and her Oscar favourite, Poor Things. Our guest, Denise Parkinson is no stranger to the...

Meet the delightful Adele Parks, author of 24 internationally bestselling novels, from family dramas, historical sagas to psychological thrillers.  Her latest,  Just Between Us , out in paperback at the end of March is an unputdownable page-turner about a missing female bigamist and the two devastated families she has left behind. Having always had a vivid imagination as a child and...

After artist Mary Jane Ansell was a guest last week, Alice has been collecting some of her favourite things - ones that might possibly appear in a portrait. She shows Josie her grandmother's religious relic - a fancy glass case apparently containing saints ashes. Unlike the rest of her family who find the whole concept rather spooky, Alice says 'Saint Carlos' brings her luck. We discuss getti...

This week we meet celebrated portrait artist Mary Jane Ansell whose incredible life-like paintings are in the National Portrait Gallery (newly revamped and well worth a visit if you haven't been). She also exhibits in New York and LA, taking commissions from some of the world’s richest art collectors. She’s a very old friend of Alice’s from the earliest days of Posh Totty Designs when Alice was ex...

With the new year well under way, we're talking about the new trend of habit stacking (Alice is weaning herself off sugar in her tea) plus Alice's first ever viral Tik-Tok post. Puppy excitement is building with the imminent arrival of Pickle, the podcast puppy and Josie dispenses some advice on how to prepare. So grab yourself a cuppa and join us for a natter. And please do get in touch&nbsp...

The Fashion Episode - with Claire Ginzler. Alice and Josie have dressed up to record this week’s episode with fashion guru Claire Ginzler, stylist to the stars.  As a teen, Claire loved The Clothes Show and went to the London College of Fashion before falling into fashion buying, which is how she got into bra fitting. She now makes videos called Tips For Tits which empowers women to...