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Maripaz Jaramillo Ellas (Them) – Colombian Artist Colombian artist Maripaz Jaramillo returns to London for a solo show at the Sandra Higgins Art Gallery. She talks to Donna about the changes in her life that have brought about radical changes in her art work. She is both unabashedly feminist and sensual. Sandra Higgins tells us…

We reflect on issues raised at this year’s Women of the World festival at the Southbank Centre.  This week we discuss education, mentoring and the future of feminism in the next generation. Including interviews with the Southbank’s Artistic Director Jude Kelly, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, writer Caroline Bird, Funny Women’s Executive Producer Lynne Parker, artist…

Gorgeous Reads – the monthly book club on Radio Gorgeous! This year marks the 10th anniversary of Angela Carter’s death in 1992 aged just 51, and in honour of that fact, this month we’re discussing her last – and in many critics opinion, her best – novel, Wise Children. It’s a rollicking good yarn, narrated…

How did you spend your Valentine’s Day? We debate grand gestures versus thoughtful details, the burden of expectation and the fine art of kissing… While the Durrell family’s time on Corfu has been much documented, one woman had remained in the shadows until now: Joanna Hodgkin’s mother and Lawrence Durrell’s wife, Nancy. Joanna tells us…

The Gorgeous Reads critics discuss Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘The Poisonwood Bible.’  Suddenly transplanted to the Congo, the American Price girls begin to question the values of their father and of their homeland as the tragedies of their family and the nation entwine.

Josephine and Donna review Our New Girl, a new play at the Bush Theatre, written by Nancy Harris and directed by Charlotte Gwinner. Josephine interviews Charlotte Gwinner to find out about the development of the play and what it was like, as a new mother, to direct a drama which contains such an unsettling examination…