Serena Kutchinsky is an award-winning British journalist, and the daughter of Paul Kutchinsky, who once designed the world's biggest jewelled egg... and brought down his century-old jewellery house in the process. Carol hears the thrilling story...

Serena's book is out on March 31st, 2026 https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Serena-Kutchinsky/215597478

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Happy Valentine's Day! To celebrate, here's a bonus episode, but with a big name in modern jewellery: Cece Fein-Hughes, whose company Cece Jewellery has skyrocketed in the last few years and sent its founder onto the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Carol meets her to talk about the jewellery of love...

https://www.cecejewellery.com

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Carol meets Michelle Ong, legendary jewellery designer and businesswoman, co-founder of the luxury jewellery brand Carnet.

http://www.carnetjewellery.com/

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Ann Dexter-Jones has had quite a life. Jewellery designer, writer and mother of five children including multiple Grammy-winning Mark Ronson, Carol meets the British-born New Yorker to hear all about it...

https://anndexterjonesdesign.com

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For over forty years, Jennifer Tilly has been one of Hollywood's most entertaining character actresses, from thrilling star turns in Bound to Oscar-nominated hilarity in Bullets Over Broadway. But she also has one of tinsel towns most remarkable jewellery collections... so Carol has a chat with her to find out all about it!

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For the second part of our Marie Antoinette special, Carol speaks to historian and author Vincent Meylan about the infamous diamond fraud case of 1785, wherein Marie Antoinette's implication had lasting impact on her own fate. Vincent also contributed to thecatalogue for the new exhibition at London's V&A Museum Marie Antoinette Style.

www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/marie-antoinette

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In this first episode of our Marie Antoinette two-part special, Carol speaks to Dr Sarah Grant, Senior Curator of Prints at London's V&A museum and curator of the recent exhibition Marie Antoinette Style.

www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/marie-antoinette

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In this special episode, Carol speaks to historian, journalist and high jewellery historian Vincent Meylan about the shocking heist that took place just this last Sunday at the most visited museum in the world, the Louvre in Paris.

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Carol is given exclusive access to the secrets of perhaps the most exciting jewellery discovery of the century so far - the Tudor Heart, found in a field in Warwickshire and now to be acquired by the British Museum. With many thanks to Rachel King, Curator of Renaissance Europe & the Waddesdon Bequest.

Donate to the British Museum's Tudor Heart appeal here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/tudor-heart-appeal

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Carol speaks to Wartski's Katherine Purcell, who treats her to a sneak preview of the upcoming exhibition at Wartski in London's St James's Street, regarding the dazzling history of the brooch.

https://wartski.com/a-wartski-loan-exhibition/

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For the first episode of season 8, Carol speaks to returning guest Marion Fasel, author of The History Of Diamond Engagement Rings, to discuss the fascinating and often misleading story of these iconic jewellery items.

https://marionfasel.substack.com/

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