Radio Gorgeous

Donna was on Today which is on US network NBC talking about her incredible adoption story.

Safari guide ANNA MARTINSSON with CORINNA McSHANE, Gorgeous Lives on Radio Gorgeous So how did someone born in Sweden end up retraining as a professional safari guide in Kenya? Anna explains why after her first visit to Africa, life would never be the same. Safari means ‘going on a journey’. Anna talks to Corinna about…

Patti Boulaye, The Faith of a Child GORGEOUS LIVES WITH JOSEPHINE PEMBROKE Effervescent Patti Boulaye was the winner of the last ever ‘New Faces’ show in 1978. Patti’s incredible life started when she was born in a taxi in Nigeria, she literally fell into show business on holiday in England. And she ended up in…

  Linda Nolan, From My Heart, Gorgeous Lives: with Donna Freed After all the drama: the Nolan Sisters break up, her sister and husband died, she was caught out as a benefits cheat, her own breast cancer and depression, Linda bears all and embraces life in the face of secondary breast cancer. Donna makes a…

The Story of Alice ROBERT DOUGLAS FAIRHURST Man Week on Radio Gorgeous Podcast Length: 17 minutes 58 Seconds Robert Douglas-Fairhurst explains Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland through the looking glass of Victorian Oxford. Written by the quiet academic Charles Dodgson under a pseudonym, Alice in Wonderland was the first children’s story that didn’t come with the dire consequences…

Gary Cockerill From Coal Dust to Stardust Gary Cockerill talks about his life before and after his success as a top makeup artist. He tells us about working in a coal mine in Doncaster to earn the money to come to London. And being the first gay married couple on the front of OK Magazine…

Nominate A Woman Who Inspired YOU! PHENOMENAL PEOPLE – INTERVIEW FOR RADIO GORGEOUS BY NICKI BANNERMAN Nicki Bannerman talks with Shakespeare and TV actress Victoria Moseley and poet and author Malika Booker at the Phenomenal People live theatre performance event. A pop-up live performance event called Phenomenal People celebrated stories about women in society with an…

  Love Second Time Around – write a romantic short story and have it broadcast!  THE SOPHIE KING PRIZE for AUTHORS, GORGEOUS GOSSIP with Josephine Pembroke and Sophie King. Sophie King gives away her hard earned secrets to us about how to write that book we all believe we have in us. This annual romantic fiction…

Nicki Bannerman talks with Sally Pacholok who is an extraordinary nurse. In 1985  Sally  diagnosed herself with a lack  of vitamin B12, after her doctors had failed to identify her condition.  As a result, she is passionate about the need to educate the public about the dangerous consequences of this hidden and all-too-common disease. The right…

Can you be a VEGAN and have muscles? Meet Maria Franzen Personal Trainer  Maria Franzen was married and a size 18. One day when her daughter was small her husband left her. This kick started Maria into completely changing her life, her diet, her image and her regime. She specialises in body sculpting and took…

  Julia Roberts Presenter from QVC Life’s a Beach Then….. Despite childhood polio and now leukemia, Julia Roberts will not be kept down! Every challenge is met by yet another achievement: given polio she became a dancer, given leukemia she became a novelist. She is one of the founding presenters of QVC, a job she…

We Ain’t Got No Drink, Pa Hilda Kemp  A Little Girl’s Struggle to Survive in the Slums of 1920s South East London. This book is true story written by Cathryn Kemp with the voice of her matriarchal Nan in her head.  ‘We Ain’t Got No Drink, Pa’ by Hilda Kemp. Cathryn Kemp channels the voice…

Betty May the Musical on That’s Entertainment on Radio Gorgeous  Betty started to take cocaine on her honeymoon, cabaret danced drunkenly her way to notoriety, hung out at the Cafe Royal was a true Soho bohemian. Playwright, musician and performer Celine Hispache was inspired by Betty May, the “Tiger Woman” and wrote Betty May the…

SHIRLEY CONRAN Her early divorce, along with her innate and pragmatic design sense and a gift for teaching has driven Shirley Conran to do many things: free women from housework (Superwoman), teach girls about sex (Lace), demand a work/life balance and she has now turned to money and maths. Women don’t have enough money and…

How do you explain to your child that your head is broken? Times journalist Rachel Kelly tells us about her journey through depression with the publication of her book Black Rainbow. She tells us how you can manage your life by learning new life skills and through the power of poetry. ALL The profits from…

Author of the Week: Elisa Segrave The Girl From Station X Elisa’s relationship with her mother, Anne Segrave, was blighted from the age of 7 when a family tragedy broke her mother’s spirit. Under this cloud, it was impossible for mother and daughter to be close. It was only when her mother was unknowable due…