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Georgia Coleridge unearths and explains chakras and past life regression on this illuminating podcast with Josephine Pembroke. Georgia has been psychic since she was a child, it took her a while to accept her calling; she lived in a house full of ghosts and found out she had been a bishop with a horrific death before she finally accepted her fate as a healer. #Healer #RadioGorgeous #Chakras

The ancient art of looking to the skies for answers has moved into the modern mainstream with more and more of us turning to astrology to help us understand and structure our lives. Jo Carnegie and Josephine discuss how astrology can help us to live more mindfully, trust our instinct and fulfil our potential. To read more about the issues we’ve talked about today, go to the May edition of IN THE M...

Lindsey Fitzharris, The Butchering Art with Donna Freed Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize, Lindsey's The Butchering Art is a propulsive dramatisation of Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian Medicine. www.drlindseyfitzharris.com @DrLindseyFitz

Do you want to change and heal your life? Healer Emma talks us through the stones, tells us how we can develop intuition and she does a meditation that we can all follow. Buy the book:  THE POWER OF CRYSTAL HEALING by Emma Lucy Knowles #healer #RadioGorgeous #MindBodySpirit

Is it time for a new deck of Tarot cards? Cosmologist Alison Chester Lambert has studied the Ancient Greek world and found new idols and gods who resonate with our 21 Century lives. Good gods, bad gods, decadent and naughty gods. Yes please! #Tarot #RadioGorgeous #MindBodySpirit

S. K. Perry, Let Me Be Like Water with Donna Freed Poet and author, Sarah Perry has written a poetic novel about grief and growing up. Set in the achingly painful and chaotic year after Holly's partner of 5 years dies, the novel explores what it is for a young woman to accept her grief and find a way to move forward supported by friends and family - old and new - magic and the buoyancy of water. @...

Heather Morris, The Tattoist of Auschwitz with Donna Freed It was important to Lale Sokolov, who survived Auschwitz by working as the tattooist, marking each entrant to the camp, that someone who had no preconceptions tell his story. And so Heather Morris spent many hours over many months listening to Lale, hearing his story of survival and his extraordinary love story.  #TattoistOfAuschwitz #Lale...

Imagine eating carbs, olive oil and pasta every day and feeling and looking gorgeous. Stressed out Londoner Kamin went to live in Florence for a couple of months, she then discovered Bella Figura and her life changed forever. Learn how to live the beautiful life here. (By the way, ten years later she is still in Florence). Buy the book: Bella Figura is published by Bloomsbury #Italy #RadioGorgeous...

Silla Bjerrum, Robata: Japanese Home Grilling with Donna Freed We catch up with chef and cookbook author, Silla Bjerrum as she takes over the kitchen at Charlottes W5, serving food from her latest cookbook. After mastering sushi, where to cut is to cook, Silla has turned to robata - meaning 'fireside cooking' where meat, fish and seasonal vegetables are traditionally skewered and grilled over binc...

Ex stand up Sally gives us the confidence to stop using synthetic hormones in our body and get our HRT from plants and beans. She encourages us all to have a ‘bean habit’. She explains the history of HRT and why the menopause is a modern phenomenon and how different cultures don’t even have a word for menopause as they don’t have them! She also tells us how to make bone broth and other healthy eat...

Barbara is fascinated with the female face, she researches, photographs and studies her sitter for hours, she goes to her studio and over six to eight hours and paints her subject with vibrancy and passion. Barbara adores oils and layers her paintings with gooey paint. Her mark making is gestural and painterly, her colour palette is unique. GORGEOUS is on at The Rebecca Hossack Gallery from Thursd...

Imagine a wild flower meadow bursting with scents and delicate flowers and grasses swaying in the breeze, a mineral and silver rich stream trickles past you. This is where Amly face mist is created on an organic farm in East Sussex. Try it and be gorgeous. https://amlybotanicals.com/ #beauty #RadioGorgeous #wellbeing

There is no stronger bond than blood. Guilt is unputdownable, this thriller is edgy, exciting and plausible. Listen to Amanda tell Josephine how and why. Author of the week on Radio Gorgeous. Guilt is published by Avon Books and available now from all major. supermarket and book shops in the UK.  Buy here: http://www.avonbooks.co.uk/products/guilt/ #Thriller #radiogorgeous #twins

Nikki Pierce explains how to make your flowers look romantic, beautiful and vintage. Nikki has amazing clients which include: Dolce & Gabbana, Coach, Elle Magazine and Issey Miake, based in West London she tells us how her business has flourished. http://www.petalandgrace.com/ #RadioGorgeous #Flowers #Florist For more interesting interviews go to www.radiogorgeous.com

Author of the Week: Bonnie MacBird, Unquiet Spirits with Donna Freed The second of Bonnie MacBird's faithful, full length Sherlock Holmes novels is infused with the ghostly presences of the past history of the MacLaren whiskey family and Sherlock himself. The explosive adventure travels through London, the Cote d'Azur and the Highlands. Bonnie brings all her creative zeal to whatever she does: she...

Dr Marilyn Glenville is a nutritionist and psychologist. She can help women back to health when all traditional medicines have failed. https://www.marilynglenville.com/ #hormones #menopause #radiogorgeous

We all know that positivity and kind thoughts are the key to our wellbeing, but getting in touch with our shadow side can actually help us to find a sense of balance. Wellbeing expert Jo Carnegie and Josephine discuss why accepting all of our feelings – anger, frustration, jealously… too – is the way to a healthy and positive frame of mind. To read more mindful ways to live your life well go to th...

Holly Black, The Cruel Prince with Donna Freed Holly Black is the prolific writer of young adult fantasy fiction: she is best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), The Modern Faerie Tale series and the Magesterium series (with Cassandra Clare). The Cruel Prince is the propulsive first book in another series: The Folk of the Air and bridges the human world and Faerie. @hollybl...

Effervescent Patti Boulaye was the winner of the last ever 'New Faces' show in 1978. Patti's incredible life started when she was born in a taxi in Nigeria, she literally fell into show business on holiday in England. And she ended up in the eponymous musical hair. Patti is amazing, she was awarded an OBE for her charity work for the Queen. After this you can always buy the hard copy, her autobiog...

Tips and stories to help you find out your character traits which can be a help or a hindrance. Kim Morgan MD of Barefoot coaching gives us sound advice for our careers and life. Contact https://www.barefootcoaching.co.uk/about-us #Coaching #LifeChange #RadioGorgeous

Gorgeous Reads: Madeleine Reiss, Before We Say Goodbye with Donna Freed A perfect tearjerker for Mother's Day. Scott is only 19, but his heart transplant is failing. His mother has always put everything aside to care for him, but what will she do when he's gone. Scott has a plan to find someone for her to love. #MadeleineReiss #Fiction #radiogorgeous

Author of the Week: Alex Hourston, Love After Love with Donna Freed Alex's latest trixy heroine is a mother, therapist, wife, sister, daughter and now lover. Despite what she thinks, she cannot have it all when her various roles collide. Alex Hourston excels at propulsive and emotional explorations of the internal lives of women. @alex_hourston #loveafterlove www.faber.co.uk #author #fiction #radi...

Fashion historian and digital editor for The Stylist magazine tells us how and why she chose 100 renegade women to grace the pages of her riveting book. Harriet explains that trousers were too shocking, because they show your crutch! With beautiful illustrations by Alice Skinner. Published by Headline Publishing #IWD2018 #RadioGorgeous #4thwavefeminism Never miss our infamous podcasts sign up here...

Gorgeous Lives: Linda Nolan, From My Heart with Donna Freed After all the drama: the Nolan Sisters break up, her sister and husband died, she was caught out as a benefits cheat, her own breast cancer and depression, Linda bears all and embraces life in the face of secondary breast cancer. Donna makes a suggestion for the bucket list: learn to drive!  You can ALWAYS find amazing women on www.radiog...

Would you like a naturally uplifting massage for the face and mind? Rooted in Ayurvedic principles, Lucinda’s dry, sixty minute, fully clothed face and neck massage is powerful, yet deeply relaxing. It can reduce wrinkles and tighten and tone facial muscles. www.yuvafacemassage.com #facemassage #antiageing #radiogorgeous For even more spectacular women and more info about this podcast go to: www.r...