Radio Gorgeous

The 60's may have ended in sexual liberation but a teenage pregnancy was a family scourge and shame in the early 60's as described by Jane Hayward in this honest and compelling memoir. The mothers in the home prepared boxes filled with baby clothes for the adoptive parents to take home with the mothers babies.  www.janehayward.blog   #Radiogorgeous #memoir

Gaby Koppel, Reparation with Donna Freed.  Gaby's protagonist Elizabeth is at a crossroads as are many of the characters in the book. Which paths they take forms the structure of the book but it is the difficult relationship with her mother, Aranca, a Hungarian survivor and refugee which fuels her emotions. Gaby drew on her own parents in this honest and ambitious look at what war leaves behind. ...

Suzanne Duckett is prolific. A typical Aries in that she does what she says (she delivers), her CV reads like a PhD bibliography. I've known her for over ten years and she's done it again with this very well researched and accessible book on bathing, which she's written with fellow author Georgina Rodgers. I've long been an advocate of thalassotherapy, which is mainstream health in much of contine...

Sarit Packer, Honey & Co.: at home, Middle Eastern recipes from our kitchen with Donna Freed Exuberance personified, Sarit and Itamar's food is packed with as much personality as flavour. Honey & Co., Honey & Spice and Honey & Smoke are their three locations where they serve the food they love in a variety of styles and settings. The cookbook encompasses food from their home kitche...

The UK’s largest rare bookseller, this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, and is pleased to present In Her Own Words: Works by Exceptional Women, an exhibition of its first catalogue focused solely on women. The catalogue contains some 180 remarkable rare books, manuscripts and ephemera and has been created in recognition of the growth of interest in works by women. It includes items by pivotal...

Victoria Pearson chats to Becky James lead singer of the alternative metal band 'Soul Desire' about vocal training, confidence and the ideas behind Soul Desire's music.  Tweet: @SoulDesireNoise FB: https://www.facebook.com/pg/souldesirenoise/about/ #GorgeousEntertainment #RadioGorgeous #Metal

Cookery writer, chef, food stylist, editor and presenter Jo Pratt's latest cookbook invites you to explore more fish. Fish can be tricky: we don't always know how to cook it or what fish to use. Jo to the rescue. As with all her books and recipes, these are straight forward with easy to duplicate cooking methods to make fish more accessible. Go on…put a little fishy on your dishy. www.jo-pratt.com...

Today my guest on gorgeous llives is one of the worlds leading interior designers. Famous for her country house look her clients include royalty, rockstars, top hotels and the super rich. For many decades she has owned her own interiors shop on one of Londons most chic streets in London, Walton Street in Chelsea.  She also produces and designs has her own lines in wallpaper, fabric and furnishings...

If you liked 'The Secret' you will love this book. Dr Tara Swart's book The Source, it has more rationality and scientific analysis behind it. Tara is as you may imagine as a neuroscientist, highly  intelligent, yet she has written a book which we can all have access to; a book about on how to apply cognitive science with amazing results to our everyday lives.  https://www.taraswart.com/ Twitter:...

The Radio Gorgeous Kitchen visits Heathrow Terminal 2's The Gorgeous Kitchen with Jo Pratt and Donna Freed Jo Pratt, cookery writer, cook, food stylist & presenter is one of four female chefs who preside over Heathrow Terminal 2's The Gorgeous Kitchen. Jo works with Caroline Artiss, Sophie Michell and Gee Charman to make flying a spectacular experience from the start. She explains the unique e...

Last night there was a beautiful documentary on Channel 4 called 100 Vaginas, the film was based on our guest's groundbreaking book. She is the photographer LAURA DODSWORTH and her book is Womanhood: The Bare Reality, published by Pinter & Martin .  #Wellbeing #Sex #RadioGorgeous

Philanthropist, transparency campaigner and all round good egg, Gina Miller (now Dr Gina Miller), talks exclusively to Sarah Tucker on Radio Gorgeous about her book RISE and what inspires her, her campaign to bring transparency to the charity sector and how she deals with bullying culture.  #RadioGorgeous #GorgeousLives #Campaigner

Nuala Ellwood, Day of the Accident with Donna Freed Maggie Allen painfully wakes from a coma to find that her daughter has died in a terrible accident and her husband has left her. It gets worse, she is responsible for the strange accident but she can't remember anything.  This is the second thriller from the author of My Sister's Bones. Nuala was warned that her creative life would end when she b...

Author of the Week: Carolyn Kirby, The Conviction of Cora Burns with Donna Freed Carolyn Kirby's debut novel takes place in 1885 Birmingham, a time that hallmarks modern life as we know it. The prison where Cora was born still dominates the area and is in use today. A wide-ranging historical thriller that asks the question: where does violence come from?  This is Carolyn Kirby's first novel since...

Bored of wanking over boring porn, candid and funny writer Lucy-Anne decided to learn to ask what she really wanted in bed. And to find out how to have beautiful, slow sex. Buy the book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/dont-hold-my-head-down/lucy-anne-holmes/9781783526215 Twitter: @LucyAnneHolmes FB: https://www.facebook.com/LucyAnneHolmeswriter/ #RadioGorgeous #Sex #GorgeousWellbeing Are we tick...

Victoria Pearson chats to Victoria Smith bassist of 'The Ramonas' an all female tribute to the iconic New York Punk Rock band 'The Ramones'.  Victoria chats about her career in music and how Victoria has met many of the real Ramones and she tells us how friendly the punk scene is.  The  new album 'Acoustic Problems'.  http://www.ramonas.co.uk/ #RadioGorgeous #Punk #GorgeousEntertainment

#Wellbeing #RadioGorgeous #MentalHealth My guest today is becoming a regular on Radio Gorgeous, we have talked about her last 3 books Black Rainbow, Walking on Sunshine and The Happy Kitchen, they all explore mental health which is a condition which either you, or a friend or a relation of yours have suffered from. She writes regularly for national press, gives television and radio interviews, and...

Nuclear bombs have been dropped globally and Jon is on a conference in Switzerland, the world has ended. Then the internet goes down, what to do? 20 people are left in the hotel, a dead body is found. Novelist Hanna Jameson talks about being a young novelist, life before the internet, dating and her love of American history. #TheLast #RadioGorgeous #Fiction

Figures came out last week which may shock you if you are an online dater or considering it: 40% of single over-50s who have tried online dating have had what they feel is a negative experience. 21% Have experienced someone lying about their age and (33%) who have discovered their date looks different from their pics. So where do we begin in the minefield that is dating especially for over 50’s? D...

Gorgeous Food and Drink: Kumud Gandhi, A Cupboard Full of Spices with Donna Freed Kumud Gandhi, the Spice Queen, wants to introduce us to the alchemy of food and balanced spicing. Careful spicing goes beyond seasoning, it is medicinal, nutritional and preservative as well as. She took a career break from the Bank of England to have her children and fell into food science and from food science she...

It's Tudormania at the moment with the much awaited Mary Queen Queen of Scots film out now. With impeccable timing the guest today on Radio Gorgeous is author, Kate Hubbard who works at the Royal Literary fund. She has written a book about a powerful, wealthy and creative Tudor woman, who outlived her four husbands. She was a friend of Queen Elizabeth and spent a few years with Mary Queen of Scots...

Candida Meyrick gave up sugar over four years ago and rarely drinks alcohol. She found it nigh impossible to find a restorative grown up drink that was not a herbal tea bag. Candida started to grow herbs in her garden and instinctively she has invented something completely original: Positive Potions. Candida's garden is in Anglesey a tiny island off the north wales coast, she came into Radio Gorge...

This month’s Latte Lounge podcast asks why diets, healthy eating plans and cutting out certain foods always fail? Because it’s not the diet - it’s our head that is interfering with our intentions. Katie chats about a revolutionary new weight management programme with the founder of Boddymatterz Louise Andres-Vicaria who has created a 12-week plan which supports your body and mind and helps you cha...

Chronic pain and painkillers can lead to depression. Co-founders of Mind Body Studies Mia Segal and Leora Gaster inspired by the Feldenkrais method, have spent years developing this practice using the mind, body connection in simple, slow movements. Workshops are available in Germany and California, along with a Foundation certification course in MBS for the public and practitioners alike. Contact...

Grace Kitto, Saving Grace with Donna Freed A lifetime of habitual overeating added up to obesity for Grace Kitto. Both her mother and her husband's father died of diabetes and it was a real concern. But it was when she realised that there was a subconscious need to eat and she needed to access that to change the behaviour. She doesn't believe in dieting, however, when she was obese she needed to g...