Radio Gorgeous

For 6 years Candice was abused by her charismatic stepfather in South Africa. What looked like the perfect lifestyle and home from the outside was living hell for Candice who was first abused age eight. Hear her story. #RadioGorgeous #Wellbeing #GorgeousLives

Imagine being told you had stage 4 cancer and had 12 weeks to live? This is what happened to my guest today on Radio Gorgeous, Jane McClleland. With determination and sheer doggedness, Jane took her own health care into her own hands and tried every, drug, supplement and diet, the cancer disappeared and that was 19 years ago. Jane is a trained physiotherapist, she's an entrepreneur, a sailor, a mo...

Covered in eczema, overweight and addicted to sweets, Natasha was in denial about her terrible diet. Now she is a convert to eating sensibly, listen to her story. Natasha has now become an nutritionist, she met charismatic coach Katrina Love and they have joined forces to create an eating plan which will make to feel and look fabulous. email: natasha@wideeyednutrition.com www.wideeyednutrition.com...

Imagine if a person you were dating said out of the blue that they did not love you or fancy you anymore? Mindset coach and therapist Katrina Love gives us fantastic insider knowledge on how to react to this potentially devastating situation. Know they self and love thyself seems to be the key, find out more here. #RadioGorgeous #Dating #Wellbeing Contact Katrina : Tel: 0044 (0) 7747 345 384 Email...

Caroline Millington, digital producer for ITV's Loose Women, found herself increasingly time poor and unhappy and felt she needed to find a way to change her life or rather, change practices and priorities in her life to boost happiness. She came up with 'kindfulness;' a way for her to prioritise her health and happiness. She tells Hester her most helpful tips to manage the impact of social media,...

Jodi was only twenty five and had just given birth to her adorable baby boy when she received the dreaded news which changed her life from that day on. Katie and Josephine talk about the latest news from The Latte Lounge (Top Tips for Women over 40) and the upcoming plans for The lounge in 2019. https://www.lattelounge.co/ Twitter: @lounge_latte Insta: https://www.instagram.com/loungethelatte/ htt...

Catherine Isaac, You Me Everything with Donna Freed Catherine Isaac wrote frothy and funny romances under the name of Jane Costello for over 10 years but when she had the idea for this story, she decided to take her writing to a more serious level. Without revealing the story, it is the heart-breaking and heart-warming story of Jess, a mother and a daughter with a hereditary secret. It is also a s...

Maureen is 72 and still at it and still Up For It. Maureen talks in-depth about Corry, her one woman show Up for It, The Dankworths, her beloved Jack Rosenthal, her two dogs (one is called Diva) and  working with Roman Polanski on The Pianist. Wow what a woman! #RadioGorgeous #Theatre #GorgeousEntertainment

Victoria Pearson chats to alternative rock Gothic singer Evi Vine about her music history and inspirations and her new album 'Black light White Dark' and the her new single 'Sabbath'. Twitter: @evivine  http://evivine.com/ #RadioGorgeous #Music #EviVine

Victoria Pearson chats to Tish Ciravolo creator of Daisy Rock Guitars the only girl guitar company in the world, lighter weight guitars custom built. Tish talks about how her company empowers young girls and women to have confidence in the Rock world and shares her stories of famous customers including Joan Jett and Jimmy Page and talks about her contribution to the 'Beauty in Chaos' album. Twitte...

Did you know that kiss means smell in other countries and that even everyday food like milk and bread are aphrodisiacs? Author Lana explains our sensual relationship between food and sex and how smell, taste and lust are all intertwined. #RadioGorgeous #Sex #Food https://www.lanacitron.com/

Guy Siner of 'Allo Allo' fame, famous for playing Lieutenant Gruber the nice gay World War Two German soldier. Guy discusses his fantastic career including his experiences on stage and screen, working with Johnny Depp and Derek Jacobi and his memories of the creation of 'Allo Allo'. http://www.guysiner.com/ #ManWeek #AlloAllo #RadioGorgeous

Liv Conlon, founder The Property Stagers with Donna Freed Liv always knew she was not going to follow the traditional route through school to uni and she also knew she wanted to be her own boss. She left school at 16 and by 17 she had started her own property staging business, making properties look gorgeously furnished for sale. Now - a mere 3 years later!! - the turnover is 1 million. She is ene...

Liz Nugent, Skin Deep with Donna Freed Liz Nugent worked in theatre, film and television before turning her hand to fiction. She has a deep understanding of explosive drama and suspense but uses the medium of fiction to move her latest thriller from a remote Irish island, to London and then to the south of France. What happens when you value beauty above all else in your life? As with all great th...

Frances Welch, The Imperial Tea Party with Donna Freed Frances Welch has had a life long interest in the last days of the Russian Tsars. The Romanov family was intricately entwined with the British royal family - the Tsarina Alexandra was Queen Victoria's purportedly favourite granddaughter - and there were 3 important imperial visits between the two families. The visits had varying degrees of suc...

Tim Wardle, Director of Three Identical Strangers with Donna Freed on MAN WEEK PLEASE NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!!! Three Identical Strangers is the quintessential 'life is stranger than fiction' story that starts out with the heartwarming reunion of triplets who were separated at birth. What follows is the unravelling of the dark mystery of why they were separated in the first place...

Harry Mount is the youngest editor of The Oldie, at a mere 47 years old he started reading The Oldie aged 21. He tells us that The Oldie reader is much less likely to be offended by articles, and that they enjoy a good joke and are open minded. Harry admits he has some great shoes to fill, past editors include Richard Ingrams of Private Eye and Alexander Chancellor but he loves rising to the chall...

Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, JEOPARDY with Donna Freed on MAN WEEK Best known as The Black Farmer behind the sausages, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones arrived in the UK as part of the Windrush generation. He grew up in crushing poverty in Birmingham but made a promise to himself that one day, he would have a farm of his own. It took a long time, a lot of determination and perseverance and risk but he finally ri...

Do you really think you know Ed Sheeran? Top biographer to the stars Sean Smith tells Josephine things you never knew about the super successful, 21st Century, down to earth pop star who is worth £80 million. #EdSheeran #ManWeek #RadioGorgeous #SeanSmith

Grab yourselves a latte, sit back and listen to Katie Taylor explaining to Corinna McShane, how being peri-menopausal, led her to set up The Latte Lounge, a virtual coffee shop for women from all walks of life to share tips, recommendations, advice and experience whilst offering support and a warm sense of community. We are excited to announce that Radio Gorgeous will be producing a regular podcas...

Swan Song is Kelleigh's sumptuous homage to legendary writer and party thrower, Truman Capote. In this imaginative telling, Kelleigh manages to paint a loving, yet deliciously lurid and compelling portrait of the troubled man through his trial of a childhood, his triumphs - social, literary, and in love - through his publicly tragic demise after he exposed his beloved swans - the doyennes of socie...

The headline which attracted my attention more than any other is the fact the world has lost sixty percent of its wildlife over the past forty years. It is mind blowing and part of the fake news Trump suggests everything is that is not spouted from his own tweeter feed, but having recently visited Madagascar where I witnessed first-hand the devastation to the rainforests there, I believe the stati...

Not Hygge, but hug hotels. Winter wilderness wellness hotels. While some hotels lend themselves to the summer months, others come alight when the days are short and cold. Hotels which lend themselves to the silver grey winter months of November to end of March, which have fire places with real fires, which spread across one side of the room, and four posters which don’t look out of place in large...

So where does the bucket list of the luxury travel market as well as the great unwashed wish to go in 2019? Following in the footsteps of Megan and Harry, they want the earth to move for them, and travel to New Zealand. The Galapagos comes second, although I feel if you do travel there, pleasespend a week to ten days in Ecuador. It is a phenomenal country and so much more than a doorway to anywher...

Author of the Week: Rachel Abbott, And So It Begins with Donna Freed Rachel's latest psychological thriller starts with the question: When does a murder begin? When you pick up the knife or far before that? But as per usual, on the page, it begins with a body! Rachel ratchets up the tension with the first page and does not let up until the very last. She talks about her self-publishing success and...