Episodes

  • Mari Wilson POP DELUXE : 80’s Icon tells us about LIFE AS A POPSTAR! with Josephine Pembroke GORGEOUS ARCHIVES

    Mari Wilson POP DELUXE : 80’s Icon tells us about LIFE AS A POPSTAR! with Josephine Pembroke GORGEOUS ARCHIVES
    Jul 24 2024

    Mari Wilson Pop Diva

    Aka, Miss Beehive, The Neasden Queen of Soul, Mari Wilson has remained “What I Always Wanted” since the 1980’s. She tells Josephine that her career has changed and evolved as the music industry has but her singing for an intimate audience is timeless. Emotional glamour indeed.


    Go see MARI http://www.mariwilson.co.uk
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    31 mins
  • RULA LENSKA - My Colourful Life on Gorgeous Lives archives with Josephine Pembroke

    RULA LENSKA - My Colourful Life on Gorgeous Lives archives with Josephine Pembroke
    Jun 28 2024
    Rula Lenska on GORGEOUS LIVES “All my life I have run into excitement, danger and discovery.” Legendary red head, beauty and talented British born of aristocratic Polish descent actress and West London denizen tells Josephine about her most dangerous roles. Josephine is now addicted to Rock Follies. Listen here for Rula's life story.
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    47 mins
  • TWIGGY - Her life, her fame, her fashion Radio Gorgeous Archives with Josephine Pembroke

    TWIGGY - Her life, her fame, her fashion Radio Gorgeous Archives with Josephine Pembroke
    Jun 25 2024

    In the 1960s Twiggy was the most famous model on the globe. And she was as big as the Beatles and she was only 16. Hear Twiggy's story here on Radio Gorgeous. Twiggy tells us about growing up in Neasden, the madness of fame and her career as a model, film star, musical theatre star, and more.

    ALL MUSIC CHOSEN BY TWIGGY


    http://www.twiggylawson.co.uk/


    @Twiggy


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    27 mins
  • Shirley Conran - SUPERWOMAN - Radio Gorgeous Archives with Josephine Pembroke

    Shirley Conran - SUPERWOMAN - Radio Gorgeous Archives with Josephine Pembroke
    Jun 25 2024
    The late Shirley Conran tells us about her new book then quickly moves onto her whole life story.
    Shirley's early divorce, along with her innate and pragmatic design sense and a gift for teaching has driven Shirley Conran to do many things: free women from housework (Superwoman), teach girls about sex (Lace), demand a work/life balance and she has now turned to money and maths. Women don’t have enough money and as Shirley says, money matters because it gets things done! She has done her research and made it fun, accessible and relevant. She tells Josephine Pembroke how and why she is the maverick that she is.
    Radio Gorgeous - Gorgeous Lives
    image: Josephine with Shirley and they both wore hot pink!


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    55 mins
  • Emma Bridgewater - Her life and Her pots with Josephine Pembroke on Radio Gorgeous Archives

    Emma Bridgewater - Her life and Her pots with Josephine Pembroke on Radio Gorgeous Archives
    Jun 20 2024
    From the simple idea of wanting to create the perfect bowl and mug for her mum's dresser, Emma Bridgewater built the pottery empire she always dreamed of. The colourful, cheerful and practical ceramics have the same design she drew 30 years ago in her Brixton squat. She's come a long way since then and is off on another adventure. She talks to Josephine about her life and her book: Toast & Marmalade and Other Stories.

    www.emmabridgewater.co.uk

    @EmmaBridgewater

    #emmabridgewater #pottery #china #tea #coffee #toast #entrepreneurs #designer #plates #women #interviews #radio #gorgeous #baking #kitchen
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    24 mins
  • KATE ADIE - The Journalist - on Fighting on The Home Front and women and war by with Josephine Pembroke Radio Gorgeous Archives

    KATE ADIE - The Journalist - on Fighting on The Home Front and women and war by with Josephine Pembroke Radio Gorgeous Archives
    Jun 15 2024
    Kate Adie presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4. Kate talks to Josephine Pembroke interviews Kate about her book and her life as a very special correspondent.
    It became something of a joke in the British army that when Kate Adie arrived on the scene, the soldiers knew they were in trouble.The BBC’s chief news correspondent became one of the best-known faces on television for her reporting from the major wars of recent years. They include the Gulf War, the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Rwanda, China and Sierra Leone.It cannot have occurred to the 23-year-old from Sunderland, with her degree in Scandinavian Studies, that this was where she was heading when she joined the BBC in 1968 as a studio technician in local radio.



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    24 mins
  • WAR PAINT - Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein the makeup wars by Lindsay Woodhead with Josephine Pembroke Radio Gorgeous Archives

    WAR PAINT - Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein the makeup wars by Lindsay Woodhead with Josephine Pembroke Radio Gorgeous Archives
    Jun 15 2024

    We love makeup, it gives us confidence – a splurge at the make up counter cheers us up. And, we are always hoping to find that miracle in the jar. Lindy Woodhead and the has written a book about the creation of the beauty industry as we know it. Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein may have been on your mother’s dressing table, but I bet you have owned a tube of 8 Hour Cream and you probably cleanse tone and moisturise – all the things these grand dames on beauty invented. Listen now to to be beautified, entertained and more.

    WAR PAINT - Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein, The makeup wars by Lindsay Woodhead with Josephine Pembroke Radio Gorgeous Archives

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    51 mins
  • LAURA ASHLEY A Life in Design by Anne Sebba - Radio Gorgeous Archives with Josephine Pembroke

    LAURA ASHLEY A Life in Design by Anne Sebba - Radio Gorgeous Archives with Josephine Pembroke
    Jun 14 2024
    LAURA ASHLEY A Life in Design by Anne Sebba with Josephine Pembroke

    Laura Ashley’s vision was very different from the retailing conglomerate we knew. Laura Ashley had a vision: Go back home and create hand made cotton clothes dyed with natural colours and made up in her own factory in rural wales. She gave jobs to the community especially women who were encouraged to leave early and collect the children from school.

    Laura’s pattern cutter was an ex sheep shearer, what better person to do this exacting work. Laura loved families, beauty and hankered for the past. She actually was a girl from suburbia who had been in the Wren’s during the war…tragically she died in 1984. Hear the whole story passionately told by author Anne Sebba who is the only person to have written an authorised biography of Laura. #Fashion #Author #Podcast annesebba.com
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    36 mins