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The latest trend in travel is therapy holidays. A step more than a yoga retreat or hotel with a gym and massage therapist, therapy travel has emerged as a response to an emotional tsunami of anxiety caused and compounded by everything from global – brexit-trump-korea as well as personal - financial, relationship, age, health, empty nester related issues. The key to finding the best options is to d...

Josephine goes on board a small ship to Boston, NYC, Washington and Charleston. She naturally learns about American history and culture. Josephine sailed with Noble Caledonia the world experts in small ship cruising. #USA #Cruising #ships

Rock Bottom were a trio of solo singers from the theatre world who took on the world of rock. Then their original idea was stolen and the long process of suing and healing took place. Annabel tells Josephine the moving story in detail. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Annabel-Leventon/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AAnnabel%20Leventon #musicals #music #stardom

Interested in fitness, health and people? This could be the job for you. Entrepreneur Julie Robinson explains how Move It or Lose It is a super fun way of earning money and inspiring the elderly. #fitness #seniors #jobs

Fashion & lifestyle journalist Alyson Walsh gives us inspirational advice on how to have style; jump into jumpsuits and avoid frills and towering heels. www.thatsnotmyage.com More amazing women here www.radiogorgeous.com #style #fashion #thatsnotmyage

Gorgeous Reads: Elizabeth Kostova The Shadow Land with Donna Freed From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present—and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. www.elizabethkostova.com #Bulgaria #TheShadowLand #historicalthriller

Gorgeous Entertainment: Philippa Adams, Senior Director of Saatchi Gallery and Curator of Iconoclasts: Art Out of the Mainstream and artists Alexi Williams-Wynn and Kate MccGwire with Donna Freed www.saatchigallery.com @saatchigallery insta: kate_mccgwire #alexiwilliamswynn

Author of the Week: Sarah Franklin, SHELTER, with Donna Freed Set in the Forest of Dean in the spring of 1944, Shelter is the debut novel from Sarah Franklin, 2 time judge of the Costa Short Story Award, founder & host of Short Stories Aloud and lecturer in publishing at Oxford Brooks . The Forest provides refuge, if not shelter, for Connie, a lumberjill for the Women's Timber Corps and Seppe,...

Gorgeous Kitchen: Sainsbury's Recipe: Mummified Sausage Pie Prepare for Halloween and Bonfire Night with this spooky sausage pie. Our version came out more spooky than artful but tasted delicious. Josephine and Donna bemoan the passing of Donna's beloved cat, Mademoiselle Poxy. This is a Sainsbury's Magazine recipe and can be found in the October issue of Sainsbury's Magazine. www.sainsburysmagazi...

Gorgeous Wellbeing: Isabel Losada's Sensation: Adventures in Sex, Love and Laughter The Year of Living Pleasurably! Isabel Losada has been writing about the pursuit of happiness for 10 years but only now has she plucked up the courage to explore sex. Somehow in all this talk about mind, body and spirit we have forgotten that the body is designed for pleasure, a restorative source of joy. And so -...

60% of eating disorders start with a diet. Emma Woolf tells Josephine how we must try to get some balance in our lives. And live life with a relaxed attitude towards food. We must try to stop our obession with clean eating and good and bad foods. The A to Z of Eating disorders is out now and published by Sheldon Press. @EJWoolf For more amazing women go to www.radiogorgeous.com #diets #eatingdisor...

Dr Jane discusses inter racial marriage, racism, what is love? Can you be loved? Accepting who you are, divorce and grandparents and more. Email us with your problems at: info@radiogorgeous.com or contact Jane directly: http://drjane.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/DrJaneMcCartney @DrJaneMcCartney LOVE RG? Never miss a gorgeous podcast sign up here: http://radiogorgeous.com/sign-up-newsletter/ #problem...

Awareness of our inner self talk and we must NEVER put ourselves down, says Mexican born confidence coach Na Ha. A degree in business psychology and a passion for helping women has led Na Ha to being one of the UK's most successful young coaches. http://the12secrets.getitcoaching.com #coaching #confidence #women For more amazing women go to radiogorgeous.com

Gorgeous Entrepreneurs: Naomi Lloyd, Photographer, Writer and Diamond Philospher Naomi is a multi-faceted woman of many interests and talents: photographer, writer, diamond philospher and charitable ambassador for YouCanFree. Us , working to liberate trafficked women. Her diamond philosphy came about as she began to see parallels and connections between diamonds and humanity that goes much deeper...

How well do you know your area? No I mean REALLY know - not just the place names and the shops and where to get the best cup of coffee? Last week I went on a walk with local historian Caroline MacMillan of West London Walks and she told me some fascinating history around the Radio Gorgeous area and by the river in Hammersmith, West London. #walking #history #London http://www.westlondonwalks.co.uk...

Have you ever honestly searched your soul, stood still and felt solitude? Maria Hocking invites us to change our mind set and open our heart to positive change in our lives. Maria tells us the about the lowest point in her life when she had alopecia and wore a wig for 10 years, she wallowed in self pity until she had a life changing moment. www.mariahocking.com @MariaHocking #lifechange #motivatio...

Author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley continues in the high fantasy, steampunk style with her second novel The Bedlam Stacks. She sees the Victorian age as a perfect place for magic, and in Bedlam, she emerses us in Peru, on a desperate hunt for a reliable source for quinine. As per usual, magic and shenanigans ensue.... She gives the tiniest reveal about the upcoming sequel...

Josephine and Donna have noticed it getting a touch Autumnal outside: time for a 15 minute recipe from Sainsbury's Magazine. This month it's a gorgeous melange of gnocci, butter, sage and walnuts. Burn that butter, crisp up the sage leaves and add the crunchy walnuts and voila! A perfect lunch, supper or in Donna's case, breakfast. This is a Sainsbury’s recipe in association with Sainsbury’s Magaz...

Barbara Bourland's bust out debut novel has been described as The Devil Wears Prada meets American Psycho. If that doesn't nab you, listening to her sparkling, febrile mind at work will. You'll be pleased to know that the sequel is in work as is another novel she's thrilled to talk about. www.barbarabourland.com @BabsBourland @LizzieMastersUK #thriller #fashion #vogue

Portrait photographer Gemma Levine developed secondary lymphoedema as a result of surviving breast cancer. She soon realised that she wasn't the only one who knew extremely little about this chronic condition. Known for her work with Henry Moore and her portraits of Princess Diana and Baroness Thatcher, Gemma was able to get some help from Apple to continue her work as a photographer but as for th...

A Patient Fury is the third of Sarah Ward's D.C C.hilds crime thrillers set in atmospheric Derbyshire. She likes to exploit the contradictions and traditions of the small village life in Derbyshire but even more than that, she revels in the destructive secrets at the heart of every family. A true crime fiction fan, Sarah has a trusted review blog (crimepieces) and is on the committee for the Petro...

Gorgeous Entertainment: Playwright & Performer Annie Siddons: How (Not) to Live in Suburbia with Donna Freed Artist, committed London lover and single mum, Annie Siddons found herself in the midst of very married, very homogeneous suburbia. She also found herself to be profoundly lonely. Loneliness, it's not just for old people anymore and in Annie's case comes in the form of a giant Walrus. T...

A bohemian, a lover of the East, a free spirit, an artist, a traveller, a wit, journalist and author. Lesley Blanch wrote for Vogue and championed wild, daring, women who loved to travel. For more go to www.lesleyblanch.com #travel #bohemian #vogue #women

Celia Dodd had a dreary menopause, who doesn't? But she stuck it out without taking HRT or hormone replacement therapy. After seven gruelling years she came out the other side. And the heartening news is that Celia feels fabulous again, even better, Scottish dancing with relish and penning her first radio play. Stick it out women, there is hope on the other side. Celia is now working on a book on...

Travel journalist Sarah Tucker tells us moving stories from her journey to the fascinating country of Madagascar. #madagascar #travel #Lemurs #EcoTravel