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***the first 8 seconds are fuzzy but do persevere!*** Personal trainer and hypnotist Bertie tells Josephine how we can have our unconscious reprogrammed and reach our ideal weight. Thin Forever are having a seminar in Central London on October 15. Special discount for listeners mention Radio Gorgeous and get £30 off :£69 instead of £100. For more info go to: www.thinforever.co.uk radiogorgeous.com #diet #thin #hypno

Donna and Josephine whip up the easiest supper ever - a naan pizza, invented by the Sainsbury's Magazine team. And Donna has a surprise caller. 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 OCTOBER 2016 edition of Sainsbury’s Magazine. Enjoyed this? Sign up to GORGEOUS MAIL at www.radiogorgeous.com #Pizza #EasyRecipe #Recipe #GorgeousKitchen

Hug in a Mug BAKEWELL TART Comfort food in a cup – it doesn’t get better (or easier) than this SAINSBURY'S Recipe in the GORGEOUS KITCHEN with Josephine and Donna It's raining. it' cold, it's a miserable Saturday afternoon, Donna puts on her housecoat and Josephine dons her bunny slippers it's time to make a HUG in a MUG! (cooking a cake in 3 minutes in a microwave.) 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 October 2016 edition of Sainsbury’s Magazine. Enjoyed this caper? Sign up to GORGEOUS MAIL at www.radiogorgeous.com

Maria Semple - TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT Sainsbury's Magazine Book Choice with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous "Happiness doesn't happen with a crow bar." Eleanor Flood wakes with the resolution that today will be the day that she becomes her best, most engaged, serene, transcendent self. Like most plans, these are laid to waste by the intrusion of life. http://www.mariasemple.com/ Women having a fascinating conversation! Never miss a Radio Gorgeous podcast sign at our website.

The Girl from Lace Island : Addictive Epic Saga JO REES on RADIO GORGEOUS with Donna & Josephine Donna & Josephine catch up in Brighton with novelist & Radio Gorgeous contributor, Jo Rees. Up for discussion: her latest far-reaching romantic romp, The Girl From Lace Island, the loss of her own mother while writing it and her latest project with her husband, Emlyn. Love Radio Gorgeous? Follow us on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/radiogorgeous.com/id603913179?mt=2 Or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/radiogorgeous/ #Author #BestSeller #Women #Gossip

Eimear McBride The Lesser Bohemians AUTHOR with Donna Freed on RADIO GORGEOUS The story of a young woman exuberantly, if messily, propelling herself into a new life in London and the collision of a love affair. Eimear and Donna discuss the redemptive and, to a point, curative qualities of love and literature beyond the long reach of abuse. http://eimearmcbride.com/ LOVE authors? Never miss a podcast sign up www.radiogorgeous.com #Author #Drama #thelesserbohemians #Women

Best selling Author Victoria Hislop talks Greece, the evil eye, revenge, tattoos and acrobats. radiogorgeous.com #Greece #Author #AmReading #BookReview #Podcast

ISLE of WOMAN harmonies and humour GORGEOUS ENTERTAINMENT with Haz Childs on RADIO GORGEOUS These women will amaze and inspire you with their hilarious show, all written and performed by the them (women that is). ISLE OF WOMEN are on tour in the UK go see: #Music #Cabaret #Women http://www.hordernciani.com/ Follow: https://www.facebook.com/isleofwoman/ https://twitter.com/isleofwoman ALL things WOMAN why not like Radio Gorgeous? https://www.facebook.com/radiogorgeous/

THE PRIVILEGED Emily Hourican - a smart read & a great crack with Josephine Pembroke on Radio Gorgeous Three friends meet an an all girls school from different backgrounds, two of them are mesmerised by Amanda, tall, beautiful, vague and charismatic. Everyone Amanda meets falls for her and her looks propel her into a life of parties, aristocrats and modelling, Amanda becomes a victim of her own good fortune and her friends decide that they must try save her. Josephine chats to Emily Hourican the acclaimed Irish journalist about her novel and her recent cancer which has changed her perspective on everything. Follow Emily: @EmilyH71 Women need women! Sign up to Gorgeous mail & never miss a podcast! www.radiogorgeous.com #Friendships #Women #Ireland #Author

Virginie Taittinger, once dubbed the princess of champagne, is now its reigning queen with her very own cuvee. Champagne Virginie T. is another family joint venture with her son, and together they have created an extraordinary champagne born of tradition but with it's face firmly toward the future, much like Virginie herself. #champagne #wine #food&drink #womenentrepreneurs http://www.champagnevirginiet.com/en/ Follow: https://twitter.com/VirginieT_ @VirginieT_

In A Land of Paper Gods Rebecca Mackenzie, Author of the Week on Radio Gorgeous with Donna Freed A coming of age story set in the Chinese hilltop school for the children of British missionaries in the 1930's ad 40's. Rebecca Mackenzie does not retell her own missionary upbringing but explores that world through another girl in another, more troubled time and place. http://www.rebeccamackenzie.com/ Love Authors? So do we...sign up & never miss a podcast www.radiogorgeous.com #China #Women #Author #AmReading

Mediterranean fish stew Sainsbury's Recipe in the GORGEOUS KITCHEN with Josephine & Donna Josephine and Donna catch up while they create this Mediterranean fish stew; the last dose of summer sunshine. And Donna tells Josephine about her VIP treatment at the Edinburgh Festival. 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 SEPTEMBER 2016 edition of Sainsbury’s Magazine. Enjoyed this? Sign up to GORGEOUS MAIL at www.radiogorgeous.com

The LAURAS Sara Taylor - A transgender road trip SAINSBURY'S Magazine Book choice with Donna Freed Donna explores the subject of transgender with the US born writer Sara Taylor chosen by Sainsbury's Magazine. And she asks have you ever felt that your life was not what you thought it would be, what it should be? Alex's Ma feels this so keenly that she takes off her in car in the middle of the night with nothing but her young teenage child, Alex. It is a coming of age for both of them as they face their pasts and futures on the road. More about Sara https://sarataylor.co/ LOVE meeting AUTHORS? sign up for MORE www.radiogorgeous.com

Josephine and Donna make this hedonistic pudding, melting ice cream with a salted caramel sauce with pecans in home made cookie cups. Josephine also tells Donna about her secret Boudoir session which are a surprise present for her husbands 50th. 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 September 2016 edition of Sainsbury’s Magazine. Yaffa Meskell photographer: https://yaffameskellphotography.smugmug.com/ Enjoyed this? Sign up to GORGEOUS MAIL at www.radiogorgeous.com Josephine and Donna make this hedonistic pudding, melting ice cream with a salted caramel sauce with pecans in home made cookie cups. Josephine also tells Donna about her secret Boudoir session which are a surprise present for her husbands 50th. 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 recip

We do know now the average age of our listeners and it is 40 to 60…..this is the exact age that if you have had children there is a good chance that they will be leaving home, to go to university, travel or live with their partner….. there is something we must face and that is THE EMPTY NEST. Josephine meets Celia Dodd who is a journalist who specialises in families, health and wellbeing for many publications including the Times. THE EMPTY NEST HOW to SURVIVE AND STAY CLOSE TO YOUR CHILD is published by PIATKUS. #Teenagers #Family #Moms

Today I interviewed Anna Pasternak who is a writer and journalist and is a member of the Pasternek family……her great uncle was BORIS PASTERNAK the nobel prize winning novelist and one of the best known Poets writers and translater in Russia in the 20th Century. Anna has written a book about the the untold story and the inspiration about Dr Zhivago LARA The Untold Story. #Lara #Zhivago #Romance #History

Shari Lapena The Couple Next Door Sainsbury’s Magazine AUTHOR with Donna Freed From bankruptcy lawyer, to English teacher to literary novelist, Shari Lapena has written her first thriller. If ever there was an embodiment of the poem: Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive! Shari burrows into the dark side of human nature when an infant goes missing after the parents leave her home, while they attend a dinner party next door. Follow Shari: https://twitter.com/sharilapena @sharilapena Love this interview? Sign up to Radio Gorgeous newsletter www.radiogorgeous.com #Author #AmReading #Sainsbury'sMagazine #RadioGorgeous

New Play, Fabric, by playwright Abi Zakarian with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous Playing all throughout August at Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Abi Zakarian's new play exposes the unravelling of a young woman's life after she is raped. She was commissioned to write the one-woman show for actor Nancy Sullivan and director Tom O'Brien. The three of them create a riveting drama through Abi's pitch perfect script, Nancy's massive and raw talent and powerful direction from Tom. Follow: https://twitter.com/abi_zakarian @Abi_Zakarian Love podcasts? Sign for GORGEOUS MAIL www.radiogorgeous.com Fabric at Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 2016 Playwright Abi Zakarian Creative collaboration: Actor Nancy Sullivan and director Tom O'Brien #Edinburgh #EdinburghFringe #Theatre #Women

CRUMBLE HEAVEN! Baked apricots with cardamom and orange blossom honey, whipped cream and oat crumble SAINSBURY'S RECIPE in the Gorgeous Kitchen with Josephine & Donna Donna & Josephine make this glorious stone crumble, which they eat for breakfast, lunch and a late night snack. Listen & salivate. 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 JULY 2016 edition of Sainsbury’s Magazine. Enjoyed this? Sign up to GORGEOUS MAIL at www.radiogorgeous.com

Josephine & Donna go South East Asian and get wrapping. 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 JULY 2016 edition of Sainsbury’s Magazine. Enjoyed this? Sign up to GORGEOUS MAIL at www.radiogorgeous.com #Recipe #Sainsbury's #Cleanliving #Comedy