Radio Gorgeous

Dana chose the early 1990's to set her novel of a young woman athlete coming of age in New York City. These were the first women who were the full beneficiaries of the first wave of feminism. But, as we know, it wasn't a perfect world. Seventeen year old Lucy, secretly in love with her best friend, privileged Percy, looks around her for positive female role models with little luck. Steeped in the pick-up basketball games on the edges of the city, Central Park and the gritty club scene... you will cheer as Lucy finds her own path.  @danaczapnik @FaberBooks @Radio_Gorgeous

Allie Esiri is desperate for you to fall in love with poetry, one day at a time (A Poem for Every Day of the Year & A Poem for Every Night of the Year) and she has now set her sights on Shakespeare. Don't be afraid, dears, take your literary medicine, one loving Shakespearean spoonful at a time! Her latest beautiful anthology Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year features poems, excerpts from the plays, soliloquys, and much more. Shakespeare speaks to the very heart of the human condition, from break-ups and grief, to gardening and cooking, to hangovers and politics, Shakespeare’s plays and poems have a line for everything. He is truly a poet for all time.   Let Allie let Shakespeare entertain you!  @AllieEsiri @panmacmillan @Radio_Gorgeous

AUTHOR OF THE WEEK: You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World, Dr. Clare Wright Clare Wright is on a mission to remind us of the that it was due to some courageous women who, at the very birth of the Australian nation, demanded and achieved the vote and the right to stand for parliament for (exclusively white) women. Australia was watched by the world and considered the leading beacon of democracy. These suffragists then took to the seas to bring their message to Mother Britannia: 'trust the women.'  @clareawright @text_publishing #trustthewomen  #RadioGorgeous #Feminism

Dinner with Edward by New York Post Journalist Isabel Vincent Edward had just lost the love of his life and his reason for living. In walks Isabel and their friendship blooms over his carefully and artfully prepared dinners. His extraordinary love affair - ongoing even after death - highlighted the cracks in Isabel's faltering marriage. A beautiful book about an exceptional man and the wonder of friends.  @isareport @PushkinPress @Radio_Gorgeous #GorgeousLives #Food #RadioGorgeous 

This podcast will change your life if you suffer from Vaginal Dryness/Atrophy 70% of women suffer from Vaginal Dryness/Atrophy in their lifetime. Imagine having a condition that is so agonising that you cannot sit down? That the only relief is to place covered ice cold cans against your vagina and that sex is so agonising that you avoid it all together? Jane Lewis has suffered from acute Vaginal Atrophy since the start of her menopause and she has had to come to terms with this life long condition. Jane has written a book called ME and My Menopausal Vagina. FB: https://www.facebook.com/mymenopausalvag More info/buy book: https://www.mymenopausalvagina.co.uk/ “An amazing piece of work. It made me smile and cry at the same time and I really feel every woman on the planet needs to read it.” Dr Louise Newson #RadioGorgeous #Wellbeing #Vagina   

Victoria Pearson chats to Canadian/Chinese punk and Oi singer Jenny Woo about her music and how she has toured over sixty countries performing. Jenny also talks about her take on positive thinking and the obstacles she has overcome to achieve the rightful respect she has in the music business.  Follow: https://www.facebook.com/jennywoooiproject/ #Punk #GorgeousEntertainment #RadioGorgeous 

Gorgeous Entrepreneurs: Souraya Karami Gyves with Donna 'Imelda' Freed We all know Donna loves shoes so when she spotted a local shoe shop on her way home, she had to stop in and meet former architect turned shoe designer Souraya. A business grown as organically as her design process: hands on! If you can't make it to the shop, the online shop provides just as much personal service. @esskashoes  www.esskashoes.com @Radio_Gorgeous

'Lady Lazarus' aka Melissa Ann Sweat. Melissa talks to Victoria Pearson about road trips, her music influences and her thoughts on addiction and on writing. She also talks about her new single 'I know what it feels like' and album 'Impossible journey of my soul tonight.' https://ladylazarus.bandcamp.com/ #Gorgeous Entertainment #Music #RadioGorgeous 

Confessions of a Bad Mother, The Teenage Years is Stephanie Calman's realisation that her really rather nice children were growing up faster than advertised and not only would they be witheringly more clever than their parents but then they would have the temerity to leave home. Don't worry, the nest isn't entirely empty: Stephanie can always conjure the stroppy, sulking teenager she was.  @Calperson @picadorbooks @panmacmillan #Author #RadioGorgeous #Lifestyle 

A girl on the margins of a small town, so desperate for love and attention, falls into a relationship with a couple, tattoo artist and satanist Matt and his girlfriend Frankie. She is so willing to belong, to be a focus, even when it hurts and even if they call her by another name. She erases herself to fulfil the role of 'Lilith.'  @saderotica @404Ink @Radio_Gorgeous @Freed_Donna

Angela Meyer has worked as an editor bringing other books to life meanwhile, she's been toiling away to produce her own breakout debut, A Superior Spectre. Jeff is dying, his body and mind rotting with disease and shame, he uses a shady bit of tech to dip into the mind of a young woman - alive and well before he came along - living in the Scottish Highlands in the 1860's. His game of virtual reality becomes an internal haunting in her reality.  @LiteraryMinded  www.saraband.net @SarabandBooks 

Victoria Pearson chats to USA Athens Georgia based singer Vanessa Briscoe Hay about her band PYLON REENACTMENT SOCIETY Art Rock and her music influences including Janis Joplin and Talking Heads. The band has also just issued a special 'tour edition' of their new 'Messenger / Cliff Notes' 7" single on gold-colored vinyl, which is available at shows.   https://pylonreenactmentsociety.com/ #GorgeousEntertainment #Music #RadioGorgeous 

Therese Karlsson from the Swedish/Australian indie band Tiny Fighter talks to Victoria Pearson about her favourite songs and her past job as a truck driver. Therese also explains that she loves many Beatles songs but has no idea which album they are from. The 'Tell Me' EP is available now across online stores. #GorgeousEntertainment #Music #RadioGorgeous Twitter: https://twitter.com/tinyfighterz https://tinyfighterz.bandcamp.com/

Victoria Pearson chats to Madeline Ryan from the super hot indie band 'Wasuremono' about their new album 'Are you Ok?'  Conversation subjects also include Enid Blyton stories and Japanese culture.  https://www.wasuremonomusic.com/ #RadioGorgeous #Indie #GorgeousEntertainment 

Today I am meeting the UK’s most famous beauty expert Alison Young. Alison started her career over 30 years ago she has been a facialist for royalty and A-listers, she has worked at Harrods salon and Grayshott spa. Alison became the youngest ever trainer for Clarins in the UK, but she is most famous for her role at QVC, working with the world’s most exciting beauty brands. Alison tells us about her latest venture her own website where she shares her vast  knowledge of skin care and skin conditions so that all of us can benefit. https://alisonyoungbeauty.com/ #RadioGorgeous #Beauty #Wellbeing 

Victoria Pearson chats to Julie Lynn from USA indie drone band 'Slowness' on a direct line to Hawaii about their new LP 'Berths'. Julie explains that she plays bass on many of the songs and goes through the songwriting process with us, listen to the interview and her harmonious music.  #RadioGorgeous #Music #gorgeousentertainment  https://slowness.bandcamp.com/

Ella Dove explains to Corinna how a simple fall whilst jogging three years ago, led to having her right leg amputated, aged just 25.  In that one moment Ella’s life changed forever but rather than letting it hold her back, it made her even more determined to follow her dreams. Ella has just published her first novel, ‘Five Steps to Happy’.  Ella talks openly about being abandoned by a stranger who found her injured on a canal path and the challenges of learning to walk again. Ella describes how she approached the writing process, she discusses trauma and why being an Ambassador for the Limbless Association is so important to her. ‘Five Steps to Happy’ is an uplifting and inspiring book based on Ella’s own story that will make you see your life differently. The perfect feel-good read for your summer break. #author #inspiring #women #radiogorgeous @EllaRoseDove   @Corinna_Radio

Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows, both 9 years old, fell prey to cunning sociopath and predatory pedofile Russell Bishop on October 9, 1986. It has taken the families of the two girls over 30 years, changes in the law and acres of heartache and loss for them to find justice.  #RadioGorgeous #GorgeousLives 

Louise describes herself as a transatlantic singer, she spends most of her time between London and New York. Louise and Victoria talk in depth about Cary Grant and Hollywood royalty and how his films and life inspired her album.  Louise tells us how she actually wrote her latest album by watching his movies, the name of the album is ' When I Don't Love You I'll Let You Know'.  #RadioGorgeous #Music #GorgeousEntertainment 

First Nations, fairies, fishermen and trees that breathe    Canadians were forest bathing longer than anywhere else on the planet. Over the past ten years the wellness industry has thrived, and is the fastest growing trend in travel.  Spending time outdoors, walking amongst trees, eating healthily, checking in to the negative ions only found by the sea, the region of Nova Scotia has it all.    For a long weekend I checked into a driving tour around the coastal routes of the South shore of Nova Scotia. Heavily in touch with its Celtic routes, both in the names of the streets, towns and villages, the south shore’s connection to the immigrants who landed here, the French, German and the English – although as one tour guide mentioned before I started a tour of the town on Lunenburg, ‘the English don’t come out of this well.’ Indeed, the more I travelled and learnt about the history of this part of Nova Scotia, the more I realised what a lazy, lying and hypocritical race the English were, especially when they colo