Lindsey Fitzharris, The Butchering Art with Donna Freed Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize, Lindsey's The Butchering Art is a propulsive dramatisation of Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian Medicine.

www.drlindseyfitzharris.com

@DrLindseyFitz

Do you want to change and heal your life? Healer Emma talks us through the stones, tells us how we can develop intuition and she does a meditation that we can all follow.

Buy the book: THE POWER OF CRYSTAL HEALING by Emma Lucy Knowles

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Is it time for a new deck of Tarot cards? Cosmologist Alison Chester Lambert has studied the Ancient Greek world and found new idols and gods who resonate with our 21 Century lives. Good gods, bad gods, decadent and naughty gods.

Yes please!

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S. K. Perry, Let Me Be Like Water with Donna Freed

Poet and author, Sarah Perry has written a poetic novel about grief and growing up. Set in the achingly painful and chaotic year after Holly's partner of 5 years dies, the novel explores what it is for a young woman to accept her grief and find a way to move forward supported by friends and family - old and new - magic and the buoyancy of water.

@sarahperry

#Novel #RadioGorgeous #Grief

Heather Morris, The Tattoist of Auschwitz with Donna Freed

It was important to Lale Sokolov, who survived Auschwitz by working as the tattooist, marking each entrant to the camp, that someone who had no preconceptions tell his story. And so Heather Morris spent many hours over many months listening to Lale, hearing his story of survival and his extraordinary love story. 

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Imagine eating carbs, olive oil and pasta every day and feeling and looking gorgeous. Stressed out Londoner Kamin went to live in Florence for a couple of months, she then discovered Bella Figura and her life changed forever. Learn how to live the beautiful life here. (By the way, ten years later she is still in Florence).

Buy the book: Bella Figura is published by Bloomsbury

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Silla Bjerrum, Robata: Japanese Home Grilling with Donna Freed

We catch up with chef and cookbook author, Silla Bjerrum as she takes over the kitchen at Charlottes W5, serving food from her latest cookbook. After mastering sushi, where to cut is to cook, Silla has turned to robata - meaning 'fireside cooking' where meat, fish and seasonal vegetables are traditionally skewered and grilled over binchotan coals which reach temperatures of 600 degrees. The pure heat creates sensational flavours which she pairs with fresh salads, sides, desserts and drinks. Just as she did at the sushi bar, Grill GRRRL Silla redresses the gender imbalance as she sizzles at the barbecue.

www.sillabjerrum.com

@SillaBjerrum #Japan #RadioGorgeous #Food

Ex stand up Sally gives us the confidence to stop using synthetic hormones in our body and get our HRT from plants and beans. She encourages us all to have a ‘bean habit’. She explains the history of HRT and why the menopause is a modern phenomenon and how different cultures don’t even have a word for menopause as they don’t have them! She also tells us how to make bone broth and other healthy eating ideas.

Buy the book: Grow Your Own HRT

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