Episodes
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It's Christmas approaching and Alice and Josie are in a festive mood as they discuss their family traditions, including the tat that goes into stockings for the kids, Christmas wreath making (Alice only does it for the free fizz) and come up with a podcast festive ditty. Josie talks about her appearance on Woman's Hour this week and the announcement of her new book deal and the buzz around You & Me & You & Me & You & Me, whilst Alice talks about the Posh Totty Designs pop-up in Westfield and the trends in personalised jewellery for Christmas. Along the way they give lots of recommendations and inspiration for presents from the guests on this series - including Freya North's Book Lovers Journal, the gorgeous La Pochette bags, Mama Shrooms, Gilly Smiths cookery book retreats and the fabulous spiced mead from local bee-inspired restaurant and bar, Apiary. Wishing all the listeners a very jolly festive season.
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Get ready for a truly sweet episode of Show Us Your Bits! This week, we’re joined by Noemi and Alistair Bell, the brilliant minds behind The Apiary, Brighton’s honey-inspired restaurant that’s creating quite the buzz. What began as a lockdown passion for beekeeping has transformed into a thriving business, complete with honey-infused cocktails, delectable dishes, and mead that’s gone from medieval to marvelous—think posh bottles and modern flair! In this episode, we’ll explore their incredible journey from hive to table, uncover the art of beekeeping, and learn fascinating bee facts, including the secrets of royal jelly and the antics of fiery Italian queen bees. Oh, and of course, we’ll be sampling their glorious mead and local honey along the way! Whether you’re a die-hard bee fan or just curious about how honey can work its magic in food and drinks, this episode is bound to delight and inspire. Tune in now for a sticky-sweet adventure! and Join the Hive apiary.co.uk #apiary_uk
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Today’s guest is a true advocate for the healing power of food and community. We’re joined by Gemma Ogston, a Brighton-based plant-based chef, author, and the creator of Gem’s Wholesome Kitchen. Her journey is remarkable, from her beginnings as an addiction counselor to becoming a voice for health and healing through food. Gemma has penned two game-changing cookbooks—The Self-Care Cookbook and The Healing Cookbook—one of which was used by Queen-to-be Kate on her own path to wellness. She’s also a familiar face on Saturday Kitchen, where she shares her passion for vibrant, plant-based cooking with the nation. As if that weren’t enough, Gemma has recently launched Mama Shrooms, a new venture celebrating the healing properties of mushrooms. From her work with Soho House to her community workshops, Gemma’s dedication to nourishing the mind and body is unparalleled. So, let’s jump into this inspiring conversation about life, food, and the magic of mushrooms! Find her on Instagram @gemma.ogston and @mamashrooms_ and at linktr.ee/gemswholesomekitchen
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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 people through the power of food. Wearing many hats, including working for the food foundation, she’s passionate about fixing the broken food system and educating people about eating ethically. Today, she’s here to share some of her most personal keepsakes including her beautiful rune ring that her husband gave her, along with her mother’s glamorous pearls. Filled with industry gossip, anecdotes, insider tips, Gilly reveals how she’d overcome imposter syndrome and how to live with purpose and fulfilment. Do check out her brilliant podcast and find out more at www.gillysmith.com
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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 a business making the sports bag Justine knew was missing. But tragically, five days later, Mike died. With her world turned upside-down, she threw herself into the business, focussing on something happy and with potential, as she navigated her grief. In 2019 she launched ‘her baby’ La Pochette and talks through the journey of bringing her eco-friendly, sustainable sports bag to market. She says she’s not afraid of making a fool of herself and says that resilience is key to her success, along with leaning into her fear and trusting her gut instinct. Justine shows us her treasured charm bracelet of her late mother’s, and tells the gorgeous story of her silver jigsaw proposal puzzle and the ring she designed to celebrate her own success. Do check out the fabulous bags at www.lapochette.co and look out for them at boutique gyms in London and five star luxury hotels across the world.
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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, which later became a factory making parts for jewellery called Jewelcraft. When it was taken over by Corocraft, Mimi became the head jewellery designer, relocating the factory to Crawley. Mimi was often in the press and was called ‘One of London’s most glamorous business women.’ Sophie shows us lots of Mimi’s incredible necklaces, earrings and brooches and talks about how her family donated some of the spectacular pieces to the V&A. Do look at the pictures on our Instagram page. Inheriting Mimi’s creative and entrepreneurial streak, Sophie is a performer as well as having a wonderful catering business. Find out more at www.superdoux.com
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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 Management and what she discovered about the iconic and progressive Victorian writer Isabella Beeton. Josie is delighted with the personalised gold spinner necklace that Alice made to accompany Miss Beeton. Do enter the competition which we'll post on the @showusyourbits instagram page to win one and a signed copy of the book. https://linktr.ee/missbeeton
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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 Manchester in the late 80’s in the golden age of clubbing, Freya talks candidly about that time and how it inspired her to write her moving tale about friendship. After back surgery in 2016, Freya took up cycling and talks about the joy of discovering a new hobby and the very special community that has come into her life as a result. A country girl at heart, she shows us the little silver horse that her father gave her as a child. Not a jewellery wearer as she now lives on a farm, she shows us her very special tanzanite ring - the rarest gem stone in the world and how she came to design it. She also describes how things have come a full circle and how her vintage watch has recently started working again. As well as her hugely successful Instagram chats with other authors, #wednesdaywriters, Freya is also raising money for the Book Trust with The Book Lovers Journal - which she has created as the perfect gift for anyone who loves books. freyanorth.com
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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 - all of them flying the flag for women. Along the way, we discuss the post exam holiday mayhem, Love Supreme festival, Alice’s jaunt to Bergerac for a wedding as well as her tips for keeping your jewellery shiny. And at the end of it all, we take a much needed plunge in the sea. Happy summer! See you for Season 5 soon.
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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 Buddies was born. This was quickly followed by a clothing line for kids, all with the superpower button embroidered on the sleeve so kids could press it to feel better when they were scared or had to be away. Scamp and Dude launched into Liberty along with women’s sweatshirts also with the embroidered bolt. They were so popular they sold out instantly. Now Jo’s women’s collection has sky-rocketed and she’s expanded into stores around the country. But more than just a clothing brand, Scamp and Dude has become a community with women flocking to the stores and the Scamp and Dooders Facebook page. Jo has also launched the superpower-infused printed scarfs and for every one sold, one is gifted to a woman going through chemotherapy. So far Jo has sent out over 45,000. Thoughtful and passionate about her business and family, Jo shows us her most prized possession - a small pot of solid perfume from her Mum, as well as a set of lucky charms that she was gifted when she went in for her surgery. Jo says she’s a believer in the power of positivity and that it’s never too late to make a change.
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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 subjects as hidden homelessness, grief, dating and being childless with humour and honesty. Now at 58, she says she’s at a stage where she’s bringing all of the strands of her career together, doing lots of live events, writing a book and working on several more podcasts. Bibi shows us her special diamond ring from her Dad, her vintage A-Z and a toy monkey that she says she cuddles all night. Find out more at bibilynch.com and @bibilynch on Insta and Twitter.
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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 and explains how important sustainability is to her. With no background in fashion or business, Lemon went to drama school but says that is her superpower, as she does things her own way and refuses to take no for an answer. Lemon shows us her show-stopping statement YSL ring that her friends clubbed together to buy her for her 30th birthday, a precious chain from her Mum as well as her brand new diamond engagement ring, Fizzing with energy and positivity, Lemon is a force for change and has just launched the ‘Swing It Girls’ campaign, encouraging the twenty percent of women who are undecided to vote. Find her products at www.lemonadedolls.com and on Insta @lemonadedolls
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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 secret is in danger of being revealed. Eve talks candidly about her route to being an Internationally best-selling, prize-winning author and reveals some wisdom about her writing process and how she makes her books so layered. Happily married, Eve tells us the stories behind the beautiful rings, the filigree gold sun pendant her husband bought her, and the antique art deco diamanté bracelet she wore on her wedding day. Eve says that being a writer isn’t lonely as she has so many characters in her head, but it is insular. Which is why she cherishes her author friends and shows us the gold birdcage necklace, gifted from her friend Sarah Vaughan. The Midnight Hour is out in hardback on June 27th. Find Eve Chase on Instagram and Facebook @evepollychase.
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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 a restaurant together. The rest is history, with Bill’s becoming a High Street favourite nationwide. In recent years Tania has set up another Brighton institution, Marmalade with which she's carried on her love of nourishing, fresh and healthy home-cooked food. Tania shows us the Rolex she bought for herself when she made it in Hong Kong and the sparkly ring she's never taken off which connects her to her Mum. Down to earth and inspiring, Tania is proof that following your passion and hard work gets results.
https://www.cafemarmalade.co.uk/
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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 to help her and her friends.
Starting out with a business selling four candles she’s grown Neom into a multi-national global empire and the biggest wellbeing platform in the UK. As well launching her new book ‘Four Ways To Wellbeing’, Nicola is passionate about getting the right work-life balance, especially for women, and encourages budding entrepreneurs with her Instagram Live interviews. She says her secret is to do less and to be more sloth.
She shows us her Cartier love bangles and the ‘biting jewel’ she inherited from her grandmother - still with the bite marks in!
Visit her Neom stores or go online at www.neomwellbeing.com
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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 ghosts. Taking after her eccentric grandmother, Christiana, who worked in the theatre, Sophie started working as an usher selling ice creams at the age of seventeen and has never left the theatre. She tells us the stories behind her grandmother’s jewellery and how she’s learnt that if you work very hard and are very nice to people, it’s amazing what you can achieve.
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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 which has become the longest running female podcast in Britain. During lockdown, newly single, Josephine re- invented again and says she’s now in the best season of her life. She tells us about her new one-woman show, ‘Dinner Darlings Dinner’ which she’s performing at the Brighton Festival. Along with the most bling diamond costume ring, Josephine show us her granny’s gold wedding ring, which she uses to help her make life decisions. Funny and inspiring, Josephine says if you want anything in life you have to rely on yourself.
http://lanterntheatrebrighton.co.uk/dinner-darlings-dinner/
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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, marriage, brain fog, burnout, perimenopause and menopause. With advice from experts, celebrities and personal stories, Lorraine is a torch-bearer for this liberating and transformational new stage of life. Funny, inspirational and full of tips, Lorraine shares her own challenges, how she combats stress and has learnt to embrace change. Currently undergoing a process of shedding, Lorraine says she’s not sentimental and isn’t a hoarder of jewellery or keepsakes, but she shares the touching stories behind the three items she’d save in a fire, including an ashtray she had to buy from Tiffany’s for Donatella Versace. So if you need some advice and inspiration about your own reinvention, then do listen in.
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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 and that led to her working in the Houses of Parliament at 19, then her career took her to the BBC and ITV. Now, a broadcaster of over 20 years, Daisy has interviewed nearly every prime minister and has her own politics show on Talk TV.
She describes what it’s like to be on screen and the harsh public scrutiny that comes with that, but how she’s got more confident as she’s got older with her fashion choices. A committed shopaholic, Daisy says her wardrobe, jewellery and accessories collection is embarrassingly large, but that she’s a ‘more is more’ kind of girl. However, she’s very practical and buys and sells everything on eBay and Vinted.
Having been the victim of several burglaries, she buys costume jewellery and, following in the footsteps of her father, believes that antiques are the way forward. She tells us the story of her treasured antique diamond ring that her friends clubbed together to buy her for her fiftieth. She also shows us the round pendant with pearls and rubies gifted from her mum to her dad. Her every day jewellery includes three rings, she never takes off, including her wedding ring, a ring from her late cousin,Janey, plus a gift from her daughter, a gold and silver ring with an amethyst.
She showed us her many perspex colour-co-ordinated jewellery boxes full of drawers filled with necklaces, rings and earrings in every colour. With so much choice at her fingertips, Daisy loves a bold statement necklace for her TV show, which she says often raises a few eyebrows and cause a problem with the sound engineer who has to get the microphone just below her chin.
Savvy, funny, down-to-earth and full of common-sense advice, Daisy shares her fashion top tips as well as her life hacks to find confidence in what you do, and to stop caring what others think. You can find Daisy on Vinted @DMCA1234 Insta @daisymac1 and on X @daisymcandrew.
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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 them practical skills and business training so that they can start to earn and save money. Sara describes how these women, often in the most war-torn, poverty-stricken places in the world, find hope and strength in the sisterhood the programme helps create.
Sara’s awe-inspiring life involves travelling to far off countries to meet and support these displaced women and their families, then a few days later organise and attend glamorous events and meet high-end brands and individuals in order to raise much needed funds to support the charity. This is how I became involved and was invited to Kosovo to pass on my skills and meet these incredible women affected by war, whose stories inspired me to make the @W4WI 'share a hug' collection. The proceeds of which help support the charity.
Sara talked very movingly about her work and then shared the stories behind her dainty and chunky pieces that mean the most to her, including some of the 'She Dares' beaded bracelets each made by a woman in one of the programmes, as well as the beautiful vintage diamond ring which she bought for herself, when she achieved her dream.
Someone who firmly believes in the sisterhood, Sara says that all of her most meaningful jewellery pieces were gifted to her by the special women in her life.
This is an enlightening episode and well worth a visit.
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