Welcome to Season 10 of Show Us Your Bits -- and what a milestone it is. In this opening episode, hosts Alice Rivers Cripps and Josie Lloyd reunite after the summer break to catch up on everything that happened while they were apart, before teasing an exciting new season of guests.

Alice shares the extraordinary story of a three-day charity walk across the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, organised to raise funds for Leo's Angels -- a charity set up by her friend Emma after the tragic death of her 11-year-old son Leo from an epileptic fit. Twenty-three female founders walked more than 60 kilometres together through the mountains, raising over £23,000. The walk was not without drama: the group survived a terrifying encounter with a massive swarm of angry bees that had been smoked out of their hive, forcing the women -- including one member with a severe bee allergy -- to silently wade through a river bed surrounded by thousands of bees for two kilometres. Alice came home buzzing with energy and renewed motivation for life and business.

Josie, meanwhile, had been travelling in Vietnam. The trip took in Ho Chi Minh City, the island of Phu Quoc, Ninh Binh's stunning inland waterways, the ghost-town tourist developments around Ha Long Bay, and the vibrant old quarter of Hanoi. Josie also did a Vietnamese cookery course, visited a Michelin-starred pho restaurant and came home via a stopover in the futuristic city of Shenzhen. Back in the UK, she celebrated her husband Emlyn's birthday with a full Beatles tourist experience in Liverpool.

On the business front, Alice has been appearing on QVC to sell her Posh Totty Designs jewellery collection and is growing increasingly comfortable in front of the cameras. Josie is heading to Cannes to promote her film The Bright Side Running Club.

The episode closes with both hosts looking ahead to a packed Season 10 guest line up, including several of the female founders from Alice's charity walk.

Topics Covered

- Leo's Angels charity and the story behind it

- The Sierra Nevada 60km charity walk for epilepsy research

- The bee swarm survival story

- Travel in Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City, Phu Quoc, Ninh Binh, Ha Long Bay, Hanoi

- Vietnamese food and the Michelin-starred pho restaurant

- Shenzhen airport and modern China

- Liverpool and the Beatles tourist trail

- Selling jewellery on QVC

- The Bright Side Running Club film at Cannes

- Preview of Season 10 guests

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Co-founder and CEO of Warners Gin Distillery, Tina Warner-Keogh started off with a mission in 2012 to save the world from mediocre gin. From a farming family, she used her gut as her guide and nature as her inspiration to diversify her husband Tom’s family farm, installing a still and growing botanicals. Tina tells the story of starting a business from scratch to pioneering the world’s first rhubarb gin. From a patriarchal family, she’s had to grow in courage and belief, steering her business through Covid and the cost of living crisis to the success it is today. Sustainability is absolutely at the heart of what she does and her mission is to the world’s leading nature-driven drinks business. She brings some china pea pods, as she’s nicknamed ‘Tina Pod’ and is very close to her Mum. She also brings some colourful ‘wings’ beaded earrings from Tanzania, which commemorate her epic climb up Kilimanjaro as well as a framed picture from her brother with a very special meaning. She says that her six minute diary helps her process her emotions and makes her focus on gratitude every day and that her dogs keep her grounded and happy. Find Warners gin in good clubs, bars and restaurants, as well as supermarkets near you.

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