Radio Gorgeous

Imagine finding out that both your birth parents were so in love that they faked a death and running away to Spain seemed a logical idea. Hear Donna from Radio Gorgeous tell us how she was on Today on NBC last week to tell the world her shocking adoption story. And we announce the winner of the of the gorgeous turquoise and silver pendant in association with author Naomi E Lloyd's sci fi novel Release.

The image is Miriam (Donna's birth mother) (right) leaving the Bronx District Attorney’s office with a policewoman (and pregnant with Donna) nearly five months after she allegedly drowned in the Long Island Sound.

To find out more about Naomi E Lloyd's books: https://www.tandro.co.uk/

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Find out how you should and where in the world to detox with our very knowledgable travel and health presenter Sarah Tucker. 

For those of you who haven't been on a juice retreat, the GLASSHOUSE in Essex is an ideal, cost effective, quality retreat which offers both the first time detoxer and well practiced one an excellent fit for purpose place to go without the faffing about at airports or train stations.  The owners, Joy and Brian Jarvis, live on site, a modern cube of a house a stone's throw from the main modernist building. Joy, who has mystery shopped hundreds of retreats in the UK and around the world over the past twenty years looks in her thirties but with a son in his thirties that is an impossibility, but I didn't have the cheek to ask. 'I have visited some very beautiful spas but each have something missing, and I wanted to create something that ticked all the boxes', says Joy who looks as though she has practiced what she preaches One addition they don't mention on the website but is also one of the hi-lights are the evening talks (8pm - 9pm), held in the salon.  While I was there, there was a Jacky Rands, (www.essentialbeings.co.uk) sharing extensive and relevant knowledge about aromatherapy oils and Colin Wyatt giving a seriously good sound gong practice.   These sort of talks and experiences usually cost a lot of money, but they were given as part of the package and make, as one client put it, the break, 'seriously good value'.  Very highly recommend.  

https://www.glasshouseretreat.co.uk/

The other more extreme detox was for the week in Portugal, guaranteed weight loss and delving into your soul with great support from the owners. 
The retreat is called Moinhos Velhos which caters for up to twelve people.  For my week there were nine women (ages 40 something to fifty something), two men (forty something) and a teenager who was brought by her mother. The setting is a converted farmhouse, which is beautiful, overlooking a stunning valley. Very clean rooms, clinic, pool, lovely yoga studio, sauna, and greenhouse (which is locked at night in case you fancy pinching a papaya). 
Listen to the podcast find out more. 

https://www.moinhos-velhos.com/



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Life is very long when it came to Beryl to stop procrastinating and get on the stage and sing. Beryl made her sublime jazz album very recently too. Beryl left school at fourteen and worked in London's tin pan alley writing music scores. Music is in her blood, but life got in the way, and now aged 89 she's found the umph to take life by the horns and sing and scat away. 

https://www.berylhart.com/

https://www.brasseriezedel.com/live-at-zedel/beryl-hart-revisiting-dukes-place-jan-2020

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Today Josephine welcomed onto Radio Gorgeous  a very brave woman, who was brought up in Rome.  Angelica was abused as a child, had a theatrical demanding mother and had to learn to survive.  Angelica has been bulimic and has attempted suicide. We hear her story today.

https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/autobiography/seventy-thousand-camels/

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Diana's Chocolates was the perfect solution: When Diana's family needed her to be at home as both carer and advocate for her son, she knew she had to give up her demanding office job. Her love of chocolates and desire to still work led her to make small batches of delicious and beautiful chocolates. The business has grown organically and was accidentally, but now by design both vegan and environmentally sustainable. 
http://www.dianaschocolates.co.uk/  #chocolate  @Radio_Gorgeous

In 1960 there were over 200 strip clubs, clip joints and peep shows in Soho. But there was a classy, glamourous establishment which surpassed all others and that was Murray’s Cabaret Club in Beak Street, London W1. Murray’s Cabaret Club was taken over in 1933 by Percival Murray, it was famous for its gorgeous showgirls and dancers who wore hand-made sumptuous costumes by leading costume designers. Today I welcome onto Man Week on Radio Gorgeous, Benjamin Levy, who has worked at the V&A and is writing a book about eight, bohemian, female artists models.  But, in this podcast we are talk about his book: Murray's Cabaret Club about the club's history and costumes but most importantly the dancers and showgirls who worked at the club.

Murray's cabaret club by Benjamin Levy is published by The History Press

https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/murrays-cabaret-club/9780750991322/

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Man Week Special: Peter Grimsdale's High Performance with Donna Freed.
The enduring style and substance of the Mini, the E Type Jaguar and the Land Rover have made them more lifestyle choices than mere cars. Peter Grimsdale, car fanatic, revs his engine in the telling of how these cars came to be and how we subsequently took over Formula One racing - notice the we! If there's winning to be had, we're in on it. 

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In Venus & Aphrodite: History of a Goddess, Bettany Hughes delves into the origins of Aphrodite, Goddess of Love - born in Cypress and the product of blood, guts, incest, patricide, love, lust and sex. She not only is the emblem of love and sex but also our very thirst and drive for life. Through the ages, how Aphrodite has been perceived is a reflection and a projection of how women are demonised and idealised. 

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RELEASE - A PARANORMAL TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE (The Tandro Series)

Donna talks to Naomi E Lloyd novelist about Release her first book in the Tandro series. You, dear listener get a chance to win a stunning white gold and turquoise pendant, on a silver chain, designed by Uwe Koetter.
Naomi tells us about her novel and the powerful and transformational effect of stones, diamonds in particular and her attraction to South Africa. Donna also meets Johan Louw the world famous South African jewellery designer who designed the necklace for the book cover and the pendant. 

The competition in association with Naomi's book RELEASE. You have a chance to win the pendant and a signed copy of the book.

The question is:

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE ENERGY LAGOON MASTER IN THE BOOK RELEASE?

Please send your answers to the email below, (we will not share your email with any other third party) by January 15 2020.

[email protected]

UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Naomi-Lloyd/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ANaomi+Lloyd

USA:
https://www.amazon.com/RELEASE-Paranormal-Travel-Romance-Tandro-ebook/dp/B07YW4JN3P/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Naomi's website: (Find out what colour stone you are)

https://www.tandro.co.uk/

Uwe Kotters, Johan's website:

https://uwekoetter.com/

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SPICE GIRLS, the story of the world’s greatest girl band with the UK's top celebrity biographer Sean Smith. Sean Smith tells us insider knowledge about how the most successful all girl group of all time managed to achieve superstardom. 


SPICE GIRLS, the story of the world’s greatest girl band is published by Harper Collins. 

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