Show Us Your Bits Alice Cripps and Josie Lloyd

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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