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Bespoke tailor to the stars, Gresham Blake is our special guest this week. With his iconic shop in Brighton, Gresham tells us about his journey into tailoring and how he’s grown his business, diversifying into corporate wear for big hotels like The Standard Hotel group, Fortnum and Mason, The Grand in Brighton to name but a few. He hates ornaments, but is a collector of antique curiosities and brings a piece of a space rocket to show us. He also tells us about his pride and joy - an antique petrol pump which is the centrepiece of his house. Sporting a huge signet ring with a rose gold sovereign made by Jeremy Hoy, Gresham says it was a gift from his friends for his 50th business. Championing customer service and loving hearing people’s stories, Gresham says that the life hack that has seen him through is to just be honest. Dapper, irreverent and funny, find out more about Gresham's fabulous work at www.greshamblake.com www.poshtottydesigns.com
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Screenwriter, radio script writer and best selling author, Veronica Henry joins us from North Devon to discuss her career, her life and her special pieces of jewellery. Having written well over twenty novels, her latest 'One Night At The Château', is out in paperback today. Warm-hearted and page-turning, it has all the hallmarks of her writing that has earned her a legion of loyal fans. Refreshingly honest and down-to-earth, Veronica talks about her writing process and how, having been through a divorce, covid, bereavement and the menopause in her fifties, is now in a new phase of her life. She says she feels simultaneously super-wise and sorted and then bewildered, but she says there comes a time when you can't be shy anymore. She shows us her the beautiful art deco ring that belonged to her flamboyant grandmother, a lobster necklace from her sons, a mushroom necklace that represents friendship and some glitzy earrings which she says are her armour at any party. She calls them the jewellery equivalent of a line of cocaine. She says her life hack is to get yourself a signature dish. Hers is crab linguine, but she's passed on some wisdom from Anthony Bourdain and has taught her sons to make a great omelette. Find her latest novel at all good bookshops and supermarkets and online on Facebook and Instagram @veronicahenryauthor www.poshtottydesigns.com
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Chelsea Green’s ‘Felt’ is one of London’s original mini boutiques. Founded by our guest Eliza Poklewski Koziell and fashion director Jayne Pickering, Felt is favourite of editors and celebrities alike. Eliza curates an eponymous collection that is a must for magpies searching for fabulous costume jewellery,
fine jewellery both contemporary and vintage and even ditsy diamond studs. Eliza talks candidly about the challenges of running an independent small business and keeping control. The trick is to recognise your skillset and to get people on board for your weak areas. Also, not to over-think it. She loves working and says she’ll be dealing until she drops. Always on the move and gardening, Eliza shows us her robust ring with her family crest which has brought her love and support. She says people commission it off her hand. She also shows us cherished heirloom rosary and a classic watch.
Dressed head to toe in vintage clothes, Eliza loves a knitted hat as well as her apron which she says is her comfort blanket.
Visit Eliza at Felt London at 53 Godfrey Street (Tues-Sat) and online @feltlondon and www.feltlondon.com
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Meet Brighton-based healer Georgia Morse who is passionate about women’s health. A trained nurse, Georgia talks about her fascinating journey into energetic and somatic healing, via a youth initiative programme in Sweden, and her work with refugees in Calais. After graduating as an NHS nurse on a respiratory ward during Covid left her burnt out, Georgia became an apprentice of The Boulderstone Technique. She found her path into women’s health when working with Afghan Refugees, helping the women to process their trauma. Now, a new mum, she’s interested in holistic approaches to healing conditions such as hay fever and working with women’s hormone imbalances. Georgia shares her wisdom on the menopause and the importance of pausing and to create space and breathing-room in midlife. If we sit still l, we tend to know what we need she says. Not a ‘things’ person, Georgia shows us her ancient citrine quartz crystal which her Dad found in an antiques auction, which helps her feel grounded in her clinic. Bees are very precious having after a bee-keeping course in her teens changed her life and Georgia shows us her beautiful bee necklace and earrings as well as a handmade silver bracelet. For more information on Georgia’s work, find her on instagram @sistersofthemoon_uk and at www.sistersofthemoonuk.com
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Meet Will and Alice Crone, the new owners of luxury chocolatier Audrey’s, the biggest supplier of English handmade chocolates to Fortnum and Mason.The husband and wife team are passionate about preserving the traditions of their chocolate factory and shop in Hove which has been there since 1948 and is much-loved by its loyal clientele. Alice and Josie enjoy a mouth-watering tour of the building, seeing how the flavoured creams, fondants, caramels, pralines, and nut clusters that make up the beautiful selection boxes are lovingly hand crafted by their artisans, so that each box of chocolates really is like opening a box of jewels. Settling their young family into Hove, Alice and Will talk about working together and share their keepsakes associated with their romantic engagement in Cornwall, plus a very funny reason why they collect elephants. For something very special, visit Audrey’s chocolates in Holland Road, Hove, or online at audreyschocolates.co.uk or follow their insta @audreyschocolates. poshtottydesigns.com #poshtotty
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Spring is here and Alice and Josie are on the beach, with a natter about their latest beach antics and are getting excited about the Brighton festival. Josie is fresh from a Spring cookery course in the old kitchen at Parham House with friend-of-the-podcast Valentina Harris, whilst Alice has given her shop an entire makeover, thanks to a colour scheme invented by her new best friend, Chat GPT. Join us for a lively debate about AI, and a look forward to our fabulous guests this season from the world of fashion, beauty, the environment and, of course, the festival. If you’d like to be a guest on the show, or know anyone who would like to be, please do get in touch with us @showusyourbitspodcast on Instagram and Facebook. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes each Friday. @poshtottydesigns @josielloydwriter
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With Easter upon us, Alice and Josie wrap up Season Six with a look back at the fabulous guests they've had on the podcast, and talk about some of the special bits they brought along. There was a bit of a foodie theme, with season highlights including the fabulous chef and cookery writer, Elisabeth Luard, as well as Valentina Harris, whose life hack - "just don't ever give up sex, girls" - was the best. There were some adventurers too. Nick Pulley described his journey from Brighton Pavilion to the Taj Mahal by train, whilst Dragon's Den star and hugely successful entrepreneur Sarah Willingham talked about rescuing Brighton's icon i360 and her plans to put the heartbeat back into the middle of the prom. Check out all the photos and highlights @showusyourbitspodcast on Instagram.
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Straight-talking, inspiring entrepreneur Sarah Willingham tells us about being a curious child, but when her Dad wouldn’t let her have a gap year, she set off to pursue her love of food and international travel in business. After learning the ropes at Pizza Express, she realised she wanted a large family and that she’d have to create her own career to make her life work with small children. She says she loves chaos and having four children in four years has meant she’s had to accept that having it all has to be a giant compromise. After recording Dragon’s Den she took off around the world with her kids and Michael her husband for three years and found clarity once the adrenalin had left her system. She says her life hack is to get back to nature and she walks to empty her mind.Now settled in Brighton, she runs Nightcap, a big hospitality business, with Michael, but when the opportunity came just before Christmas to buy the i360, she stepped in at the last moment and bought the iconic landmark, saving it from being dismantled. Sarah is passionate about regenerating the i360, particularly the building beneath the tower and she’s buzzing with plans. Fresh from the amazing Brighton marathon weekend, Sarah says the middle of the prom deserves to be activated and we couldn’t agree more. Whilst she’d be happy living in a caravan herself and not being at all materialistic, Sarah shows us a special ring that reminds her of her soul mate, Richard, and a romantic small red book she made for Michael. Follow her on instagram @sarahwillingham @poshtottydesigns
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Chef, broadcaster, food judge, teacher and prolific writer with 56 cookbooks to her name, Valentina Harris joins us for a mouth-watering chat about her extraordinary life and career. Full of wit and wisdom, Valentina shares her love of regional Italian food, the importance of not serving an Italian an incorrect dish and her fury at the current trend of frying gnocchi. Called the ‘Queen of Risotto’, she shares her secrets of Italy’s iconic rice dish, as well as answering many other foody questions, although her experience with roasted stuffed horse penis was somewhat hair-raising! Her special keepsakes include her first award for cookery writing, her grandmother’s jade balls used for hand exercises, a note from Stanley Tucci with his recommendation of a recipe for the spectacular ‘Timpano’ dish as well as her mother’s unusual silver bangle. We were ready to pack our bags for Italy straight after our chat. Fortunately, Valentina runs cookery courses closer to home in the old kitchen at Parham House. For more details join her on instagram @chef_valentina
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With Mothering Sunday upon us, we’re talking about our mums today. We’re joined entrepreneur and mum of two, Georgie Harris who describes how she had a fantastic job at Burberry, but then her world changed when her son was born with a rare genetic condition, Russell Silver Syndrome which affects growth. After a harrowing pregnancy and birth, Georgie then discovered herself navigating the SEN system and becoming a primary carer, negotiating support for her child’s complex needs. After her second son was born in 2023, she started looking for jobs, but couldn’t find one, let alone one that could fit in with her life. Then, at a kids birthday party, she met Bex who suggested a skills swap and Mums Who Build was born. With a non-mumsy vibe, Georgie and Bex’s networking organisation has the aim of closing the wealth gap and reducing the impact of the motherhood penalty. The MOB (for short) helps Mums at all stages develop skills and confidence through workshops, events and meet-ups based on the three pillars of wellbeing, connections and financial education. With new found sense of purpose and having been on a healing journey through the connections she’s made at The Mob, Georgie says her ambition is to have Mums Who Build around the country. She says she wears her jewellery the whole time, including some personal bangles from her family and shows us her inspirational late grandmother’s engagement ring, who she describes as the glue of the family. She also shows us a dainty gold child protection charm from her husband’s Kurdish heritage. If anything has seen her through, Georgie says it’s not overthinking things and seizing the day. Find out more on Instagram @mumswhobuild
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All aboard for this week’s guest, Nick Pulley founder and CEO of Selective Asia a tailor-made travel business specialising in responsible, focussed travel from India to Japan. A born adventurer, Nick fell in love with Thailand and South East Asia on his year abroad after school when traveling around the world. After an injury thwarted his dreams of being a rugby player, he pivoted and was at the forefront of internet travel. He’s passionate about sustainable travel and how it’s so much more than just the carbon and flight problem. A lover of logistics, he’s a natural at planning and recently embarked on an epic train two-month journey from Brighton Pavilion to The Taj Mahal. He tells us about his astonishing and emotional trip, including his eye-opening train journey across Iran and a blessing from the Dalai Lama. Nick has brought back all sorts of souvenirs from his travels, but brings his two most precious keepsakes - some gorgeously tactile chopstick holders from Japan and a beautiful hand-made paper book from his girlfriend, Sarah depicting their first year together. Nick says he loves the early morning, but having fun in work and life is the key to happiness. https://www.selectiveasia.com https://www.selectiveasia.com/blog
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Our guest this week is legendary food writer, illustrator and broadcaster Elisabeth Luard. Joining us from London, Elisabeth candidly recalls adventures from her extraordinary life, describing how, after growing up in Uruguay and boarding school, she was a young journalist on Private Eye, when she met her husband, Nicholas Luard. Marrying at 21 and having four children in quick succession, Elisabeth decamped to rural Andalusia, finding a way into food writing and the traditional recipes via the locals at the school gates where her kids learnt to trap and skin rabbits. After a couple of shows in a top wildlife gallery exhibiting her natural history paintings, she started writing about food in 'The Field' magazine accompanied by her own illustrations, but her passion was to write a book about real peasant cookery and the importance of knowing the land, the limitations of fresh produce and only using what's seasonal and local. A concept that seemed transgressive at the time, but has, as she says, come full circle. Full of wisdom and wit, Elisabeth has travelled all over the world and enlightens us about some of the foods she's encountered along the way, such smoked reindeer tongue, as well as making a case for bringing back salep, a powdered dried orchid root. She doesn't 'do' jewellery as she's always cooking, but she shows us two of her treasured rings - a sapphire ring belonging to her late daughter, Francesca, as well her welsh gold wedding ring. Writing regularly on Substack ([email protected])
Elisabeth's fascination with the natural world as well as the world of food and its interconnectivity with culture continues. She says that like the wood-wide-web, we're allconnected and that to forget that would be a terrible mistake. Wise words indeed.
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Brighton maker, artist, business woman and entrepreneur Sophie Darling joins us for a fascinating chat about sustainability and slow fashion, describing her creative process and how she creates her signature hand-printed jackets, which are all art pieces in themselves.
Sophie describes how a surprise trip to Mississippi nurtured her creativity when she was young, but that it wasn’t until she’d done a screen-printing course that she found her passion, leading to a hugely successful label Kimchi with her friend Holly Atelier. Now running a creative hub in her Brighton studio, Sophie does workshops and feels passionately about nurturing younger creative talent. Unable to wear rings anymore, Sophie shows us her lovely necklaces. A (possibly Tiffany) silver locket bottle for perfume on a chain gifted by her father to her mother and now has been passed onto Sophie’s daughter. The funny story behind her wedding ring with braille on the outside because ‘Love is Blind’, as well as a beautiful ‘Darling’ necklace, which is a collaboration with a local tattoo artist and self-taught jeweller James Robinson. She says that it’s her resilience, determination and passion that has seen her through. Inspiring, funny, lively and yet very down to earth, Sophie continues to thrive creatively. Find out more on her website, sophiedarling.com, catch her on Insta @sophie_darling_. She runs an open studio once a month and will be part of the open studios in May for Brighton festival.
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We're thrilled to welcome top ten best-selling author, Elly Griffiths. Fresh from her UK tour promoting her latest book, The Frozen People, Elly gives us a fascinating insight into her writing life and her journey to becoming one of the UK's most cherished crime writers. She talks about the inspiration for her books, the amazing research she does and her writing process. She shows us the lucky crime-themed necklace gifted to her by a friend when she won the prestigious Crime Writer's Association dagger award, the highest accolade in crime writing, as well as her mother's ring which she wears to allow her to 'absorb some of her calm'. Elly talks about her love of Italy and her Italian heritage and says that not being a perfectionist is what's seen her through. Delightfully warm and down to earth, Elly is full of great advice and also shares her reading and writing tips.
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Brand expert Zoe de Pass says she was at the 'right time and in the right place' to become an influencer when she set up hugely successful 'Dress Like A Mum'. The name came after someone told her, whilst she was going to a meeting with her newborn baby, that she didn't look like a mum at all. Having been at the forefront of influencers online for the last decade, she talks about how she's seen influencing change over the years and the importance of setting boundaries. Her latest project, Zoe de Pass eyewear showcases Zoe's funky, colourful style. She says she's 'never worn beige' and her funky sunglasses are in hot demand, embraced by celebrities like Sophie Ellis Bextor. Zoe shows us her engagement ring, which she's redesigned herself twice, her tiffany ring from her cool Canadian Godparents, her heart shaped locket with pansies and pearls, as well as a family heirloom charm bracelet. Listen to Zoe's inspiring tips for business how to embrace your own style
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Alice and Josie are back in the new podcasting studio introducing season six and love is in the air. They have a catch up and natter about all things to do with Valentine’s Day, from first crushes to fancy food. Alice tells the story of her very long first crush and how he unknowingly inspired her to make personalised jewellery. As well as talking about love tokens and Alice's soul mates collection of charm animals who mate for life, they embrace the love of friends in this jolly, uplifting chat.
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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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