Radio Gorgeous

You are walking along a path. It is covered in snow. The sky is blue and all you can  hear are birds tweeting. You look down. The snow is glistening in the morning light and you hear the crunch of the snow under your boots. You turn and notice a stream running past you. And further ahead there is a waterfall. You breathe in and smell the sweet clean air and stretch your arms wide and open yourself to the  beauty of the mountains. This isn’t a headspace app. This is a small part of what  you experience on a yoga week in the friendliest French resort of Les Menuires. I got burnt doing yoga. I got sunburnt doing a sun salutation. To be fair, the sun burn  was unintentional. I was at Les Menuires (pronounced ley men weir) a hill top village, the gateway to the largest ski region in the world Les 3 Vallees, well beloved ski resort of the British who have now entrenched themselves so fixatedly in parts of this phenomenally beautiful region that there are villages which are not only all English speaking but the

Victoria Pearson chats to Indie Folk singer Holly Rees about her upcoming Canadian tour and her appearance at Canadian music week. Holly also talks about her music influences and her new live EP 'Text me when you get there' [https://hollyrees.bandcamp.com/](https://hollyrees.bandcamp.com/) #Folk #RadioGorgeous #GorgeousEntertainment

As a therapist and head of a trauma therapy unit, Ruth is on top of her game but her personal life has imploded. She has papered over the cracks in her life in the wake of her son's disappearance and buried herself in her role at work. These cracks break open when she meets an intense patient who uncannily resembles her missing son.  Bev draws on her own experience as a clinical psychologist for the NHS but the story is a full exploration of the pitfalls and responsibilities of motherhood as much as the relationship between therapist and patient.  #GoodEnoughMother #RadioGorgeous [www.faberandfaber.com](http://www.faberandfaber.com) @FaberBooks

Loose Woman Coleen Nolan talks to Corinna about her excitement (and nervousness!) at taking on a starring role in the world premiere of the ‘The Thunder Girls’. A tour de force for women, the play not only has four female leads over 50 but also a female writer, director and producer! The story focuses on the attempted reunion of an 80’s girl band. Of course Coleen was of part of the original girl band ‘The Nolans’ and she explains what it was like when the group reunited after a 25 year break. Coleen also talks about her passion for wanting to see more women over 50 represented in the theatre and on TV. The Thunder Girls is playing at The Lowry Theatre, Salford from September 24 – 28 2019. Tickets are available via https://thelowry.com/whats-on/the-thunder-girls/ @NolanColeen @Corinna_Radio @loosewomen #theatre #women #midlife #music #gorgeouslives #RadioGorgeous

‘Looking after our personal energy is vital’ Delilah Sullivan tells me as I sit opposite her in a coffee shop in Barnes. Her book ‘The Teachings of Mr P’ sounds a little like a precursor to ‘The Book of O’, but is nothing like it (in fact, quite the opposite). The book is really all about higher energy rather than sexual. In short, it is a series of channelled conversations with ‘P’ who is Plato, and it’s utterly fascinating.  It talks about the power of love, in all it guises; space time and randomness, the effects of virtue, and the intricacies of the metaphysical.  Because it is in dialogues and short excerpts, it is very accessible.  Easy to read, to digest, to absorb and it stays with you. Example ‘Without the desire to explore one’s potential, there is no desire to accept one’s past’. ‘To observe history, one has to let it go from one’s present.’ ‘Life is not love. It is joy that brings life. Man (and woman) are seeking joy and he/she will not find this through love’.  It’s sound bite without trying. Wi

#GorgeousLives #RadioGorgeous #Music "You have to do something for you once in your life." Norda Mullen, 58,  year old flautist for the Moody claims, looking ten years younger  than her years, thanks she says to having a Greek mother (the Greeks  have good skin) and a good diet and lifestyle (she tries to go to yoga  every day). “I have spent my life making others look and sound good. Now I want  to do it for myself.” Thus began the process of her making her own solo music. Now living in Richmond with her husband Kelvin and two dogs (who both  have a mention on her first CD), she chose to live in here because "it's  beautiful, and right next to beautiful urban London. However, the parking  attendants suck!" "My family are all very musical. I was brought up on ragtime, gospel, the blues, classical music, and rock and roll.  Everything was ragtime, even Happy Birthday was turned into Ragtime,  but I was born in Mississippi so what do you expect? I was brought up within a family where

Josephine from Radio Gorgeous meets two women who have connected through looking for something more in their lives. They started to journey inwards on a spiritual journey with amazing results and together they have created THE ZONE of CONNECTION - shift your energy to happiness and beyond. With careers in Mentoring, personal growth, transformational leadership and coaching they have got together help us access our true power, unlimited creativity and joy. They tell us about their book The Zone of Connection and exercises which can change your life.  For more info and buy the book: http://thezoneofconnection.com/ #RadioGorgeous #Wellbeing #BodyMindSpirit

Are you constantly busy and constantly on your phone, are daily tasks getting you down? Time for some practical and sensible advice from top blogger, vlogger and podcaster Anna Newton.  An Edited Life, Simple Steps to Streamlining Your Life, at Work & at Home by ANNA NEWTON is published by Quadrille.  [https://www.theannaedit.com/](https://www.theannaedit.com/) #RadioGorgeous #lifestyle #AnEditedLife

Jane Wenham-Jones returns to Radio Gorgeous 4 years after her last appearance with her latest book. It took a while because while trying to write an empty nest book, the nest filled back up with an adult son, meanwhile the older generation starts kicking off... but love is never far off in Jane's books.  www.janewenhamjones.wordpress.com #RadioGorgeous #novels

Today in the Latte Lounge Podcast we focus on the fact that in midlife many women quite often split up with their partners and become newly single again, or their relationships get strained or have wobbles and how hormones plummeting can affect women's sex life. Do listen to  this frank and moving discussion which may give you some amazing insights about yourself and practical tips to improve your private life.  The Latte Lounge podcast is sponsored by Sylk Natural Lubricant. Vaginal dryness is a taboo subject that no one likes talking about. It can really affect your sex life and relationship. Well don't let it. A good quality natural lubricant like Sylk that is water based, pH friendly and free from hormones and parabens can make all the difference. Sylk is available at larger Boots stores and online. You can find all this and more on the Latte Lounge website, details below: [](https://www.lattelounge.co/) [https://www.lattelounge.co/](https://www.lattelounge.co/) Twitter: @lounge_latte In

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](http://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.  The book is published by Honno, who publish Welsh women authors!  @Gabykoppel #RadioGorgeous #novel #Reparation www.honno.co.uk

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 continental Europe, but oddly not here (perhaps our government hasn't found a way to aggressively tax it yet), and this book is long overdue in making us realise the healing qualities of water, something our ancestors have long known through the ages.            Bathe encourages you to turn your attention to preventative wellness, offering scientific evidence on how bathing helps with everything from menopause and puberty (raging hormones) to insomnia, to focus and imagination (designer Tom Ford allegedly takes five a day!). You also learn things like why you get wrinkly if you stay in the bath too long (I usually do)

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 kitchen, from fancy to fuss free. Their home is your home.  [www.honeyandco.co.uk](http://www.honeyandco.co.uk)  @honeyandco #RadioGorgeous

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 figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Marie Curie and Millicent Fawcett as well as seeking to highlight the work of lesser-known women who were instrumental in pushing legal, intellectual and physical boundaries: trail-blazing activists, mathematicians, economists, classicists, travellers, mountaineers and suffragettes. Josephine meets the catalogues producers Theodora Robinson and Emma Walshe of Peter Harrington rare books.  [](https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/recent-catalogues/) [https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/recent-catalogues/](https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/recent-catalog

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/](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](http://www.jo-pratt.com)  @cookwithjopratt  #RadioGorgeous #Food

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, she is the fabulous NINA CAMPBELL . [https://shop.ninacampbell.com/](https://shop.ninacampbell.com/) Insta: ninacampbellltd #GorgeousLives #Interiors #RadioGorgeous 

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/](https://www.taraswart.com/) Twitter: @TaraSwart  #RadioGorgeous #wellbeing

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 experience of running an airport restaurant.  The Gorgeous Kitchen also has a cookbook so that you can create their fresh creations. They also have a loyalty card so pick one up and fly early and often!  [www.thegorgeouskitchen.com](http://www.thegorgeouskitchen.com) @TGKHeathrowT2 #RadioGorgeous #food