
Chiswick’s first new cinema since 1934, opens this today! The cinema has four screen for the public, and there is a cafe with bar snacks, cocktails and craft beers.
No ordinary cinema this is high end glamour and much needed culture for the area.
chiswickcinema.co.uk
#Cinema #RadioGorgeous
Jun 24, 2021
8 min

Singing sensations Rosemary Ashe has a wonderful habit of writing one woman shows to perform, always musical, her last successful show featured Ethel Merman. Today we talked about her spanking brand new show called ADORABLE DORA, a tribute to Dora Bryan. Dora was an actress and singer in the second half of the 20th century, she was a character actress with a colourful life. Rosemary Ashe has a written and is performing the show on a mini tour in London and Brighton this summer.
#OneWomanShow #AdorableDora #RadioGorgeous
https://www.rosemaryashe.com/
https://twitter.com/rosemaryashe
Jun 21, 2021
20 min

What did we expect our mothers to be in the 20th Century? Apron wearing, docile, tactile and never critical. But one day we find out that our mothers are people and they have dreams and expectations. Today I am welcomed onto Radio Gorgeous a woman who is an award winning producer and documentary maker, Sarah Aspinall. Sarah had a mother who did not fit into the motherly ideal, she dreamed of stardom, glamour and love and actively sought it out. Sarah her daughter was along for the crazy and wild ride, and she has written a memoir of her mother called Diamonds at the Lost and Found published by 4THESTATE.co.uk.
#Memoir #RadioGorgeous #20thCentury
Jun 16, 2021
26 min

Acclaimed author Katharine Norbury tells us why it’s time to have a book about nature written solely by women. Naturalists in the past have painstakingly recorded nature naming plants, trees and animals and controlling the environment. It’s time for us to take a more spiritual approach as we face an ecological crisis, it’s time to admit that we are nature.
#Anthology #RadioGorgeous #Nature
Women in Nature, An anthology of women's writing about the east Atlantic Archipelago is published by UNBOUND
https://unbound.com/books/women-on-nature/
May 14, 2021
32 min

Ariadne and her sister Phaedra were pivotal footnotes in the heroic stories of men with the exception of the letters Ovid wrote in their name. It was these passionate but powerless voices that sparked Jennifer Saint's debut novel Ariadne. Ariadne is a vibrant retelling and imagining of their stories as well as a story of sisters, growing up in the shadow of their brother, the Minotaur - himself born of their father's terrible pride and their mother's maddened shame.
This is a beautiful exploration of a glittering world created and inhabited by gods who have all the attributes of man but none of the consequences, and how two young women, princesses of Crete, granddaughters of the sun god Helios, navigate in their wake.
@Bookywookydooda @jennysaint www.jennifersaint.com @Radio_Gorgeous
May 11, 2021
21 min

Tetiana thinks that her great grandmother was "secretly" Jewish, as being a Jew in Ukraine back then was dangerous. Tetiana tells us why she, an independent modern woman fell in love with an ancient faith and converted.
#RadioGorgeous #Judaism #Memoir
Apr 26, 2021
25 min

Mona has written a manifesto which starts and ends with abuse by men to women, she wants us all to stand up for ourselves and "Fuck the patriarchy" she tells us why and how to do it. Listen hard.
#Feminism #FuckThePatriarchy #RadioGorgeous
Apr 22, 2021
33 min

Charmian Clift left London in 1954 with her husband and children to live on the Greek island of Kalymnos. The following year, they moved to Hydra where they were the forerunners of a bohemian artist community. Leonard Cohen stayed with them when he first visited the island.
Her vivid memoirs of this time have been beautifully reissued by Muswell Press with forwards by Polly Samson. In Samson's 2020 novel, A Theatre for Dreamers, Charmian Clift is a central character.
Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus are personal and travel memoirs that feel as fresh and crisp as when they were written but also serve as time travel, back to a time before mass travel.
Inspired by one of the lines that the fictional Charmian said in A Theatre for Dreamers, Polly Samson wrote the lyrics to the song Yes, I Have Ghosts, sung here by her husband, Pink Floyd vocalist and guitarist David Gilmour and their daughter Romany Gilmour.
@PollySamson @MuswellPress muswell-press.co.uk pollysamson.com
Apr 20, 2021
31 min

Scent (Muswell Press) is the second novel from Isabel Costello, author of Paris Mon Amour. Her love and intimate knowledge of France is apparent as is her ability to expose the inner life of a Parisian perfumer, Clémentine, whose marriage is disintegrating at the same time as a her former lover turns up with an unknown agenda. It is an engrossing read redolent of tension and desire.
Isabel, who has run the Literary Sofa blog for 10 years, will discuss Scent in 'An Evening with Isabel Costello' in conjunction with Barnet Libraries and Muswell Press on April 21 7-8. Tickets are free and can be booked on Eventbrite HERE.
@isabelcostello @MuswellPress @Brownlee_Donald
Apr 3, 2021
27 min

Are you a people pleaser? You may not even know you are one because according to author and therapist Emma Reed Turrell there is more to people pleasing than the sweet, saint like image we all imagine. Cambridge University educated Emma is our guest today on Radio Gorgeous and we are delving into the people pleasing world and talk about different types of pleasers and the uncomfortable feelings which women are not "allowed" to have.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Please-Yourself-Stop-People-Pleasing-Transform-ebook/dp/B08H85TP24
Available as a book, audio book & kindle
#RadioGorgeous #peoplepleasing #therapy
Apr 1, 2021
40 min
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