Podcast Episodes featuring Donna Freed
Health & Fitness Society & Culture
Claire Paphitis Ayurvedic Consultant who tells us that modern science is catching up to the ancient laws of Ayurveda GORGEOUS WELLBEING with DONNA FREED
Radio Gorgeous - January 27, 2020 22:37 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsClaire Paphitis is a fully qualified Ayurvedic Consultant who trained with Dr Deepika Rodrigo one of the foremost Ayurvedic Doctors in Europe. Having healed herself from illness through Ayurveda, Claire founded The Ayurveda Coach in 2019. She now treats patients at her clinic in Surrey and at A...
Want to lose weight without thinking about food? Try the JANE PLAN DIET, Gorgeous Wellbeing with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - January 24, 2020 17:44 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsTasty, nutritious, calorie controlled food delivered to your door. We meet Jane Michell who started cooking food for friends and then created the super successful Jane Plan Diet. She tells us how easy it is and how she became a business woman in the food world. https://www.janeplan.com/ #Die...
A basketball playing young woman finds her way through 90's New York in Dana Czapnik's The Falconer with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - September 26, 2019 15:56 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsDana chose the early 1990's to set her novel of a young woman athlete coming of age in New York City. These were the first women who were the full beneficiaries of the first wave of feminism. But, as we know, it wasn't a perfect world. Seventeen year old Lucy, secretly in love with her best frie...
A story of obsession, desire and violence for Elle Nash's debut: Animals Eat Each Other with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - August 20, 2019 21:27 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsA girl on the margins of a small town, so desperate for love and attention, falls into a relationship with a couple, tattoo artist and satanist Matt and his girlfriend Frankie. She is so willing to belong, to be a focus, even when it hurts and even if they call her by another name. She erases he...
Kate Hamer, Crushed with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - May 09, 2019 19:25 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsFair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. The opening lines of Macbeth could also set the scene in Bath for three adolescent girls bound or intent? on: "double toil and trouble!" Each of Kate Hamer's books (The Girl in the Red Coat & The Doll Funeral) starts with a...
Exploring spices, A Cupboard Full of Spices with chef Kumud Gandhi GORGEOUS FOOD with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - January 21, 2019 12:54 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsGorgeous Food and Drink: Kumud Gandhi, A Cupboard Full of Spices with Donna Freed Kumud Gandhi, the Spice Queen, wants to introduce us to the alchemy of food and balanced spicing. Careful spicing goes beyond seasoning, it is medicinal, nutritional and preservative as well as. She took a career ...
Grace Kitto, Saving Grace with Donna Freed Losing weight to save her life, Grace tried every diet but it was understanding what made her eat that allowed her to change her brain and therefore her body.
Radio Gorgeous - January 09, 2019 14:01 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsGrace Kitto, Saving Grace with Donna Freed A lifetime of habitual overeating added up to obesity for Grace Kitto. Both her mother and her husband's father died of diabetes and it was a real concern. But it was when she realised that there was a subconscious need to eat and she needed to access ...
Catherine Isaac, You Me Everything with Donna Freed GORGEOUS READS
Radio Gorgeous - December 10, 2018 11:36 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsCatherine Isaac, You Me Everything with Donna Freed Catherine Isaac wrote frothy and funny romances under the name of Jane Costello for over 10 years but when she had the idea for this story, she decided to take her writing to a more serious level. Without revealing the story, it is the heart-...
Liv Conlon, The Property Stagers with Donna Freed GORGEOUS ENTREPRENEURS
Radio Gorgeous - November 29, 2018 16:08 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsLiv Conlon, founder The Property Stagers with Donna Freed Liv always knew she was not going to follow the traditional route through school to uni and she also knew she wanted to be her own boss. She left school at 16 and by 17 she had started her own property staging business, making properties...
Liz Nugent, Skin Deep with Donna Freed, What happens when you value beauty above everything else? THRILLER on GORGEOUS READS
Radio Gorgeous - November 29, 2018 11:56 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsLiz Nugent, Skin Deep with Donna Freed Liz Nugent worked in theatre, film and television before turning her hand to fiction. She has a deep understanding of explosive drama and suspense but uses the medium of fiction to move her latest thriller from a remote Irish island, to London and then to ...
Frances Welch, The Imperial Tea Party , the last days of the Russian Tsars, with Donna Freed, AUTHOR of The Week
Radio Gorgeous - November 29, 2018 11:44 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsFrances Welch, The Imperial Tea Party with Donna Freed Frances Welch has had a life long interest in the last days of the Russian Tsars. The Romanov family was intricately entwined with the British royal family - the Tsarina Alexandra was Queen Victoria's purportedly favourite granddaughter - a...
Tim Wardle, Director of Three Identical Strangers with Donna Freed MAN WEEK on Radio Gorgeous
Radio Gorgeous - November 27, 2018 10:44 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsTim Wardle, Director of Three Identical Strangers with Donna Freed on MAN WEEK PLEASE NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!!! Three Identical Strangers is the quintessential 'life is stranger than fiction' story that starts out with the heartwarming reunion of triplets who were separated a...
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, JEOPARDY, The Black Farmer with Donna Freed on MAN WEEK
Radio Gorgeous - November 26, 2018 08:22 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWilfred Emmanuel-Jones, JEOPARDY with Donna Freed on MAN WEEK Best known as The Black Farmer behind the sausages, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones arrived in the UK as part of the Windrush generation. He grew up in crushing poverty in Birmingham but made a promise to himself that one day, he would have a...
Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott's Swan Song with Donna Freed AUTHOR OF THE WEEK on Radio Gorgeous
Radio Gorgeous - November 20, 2018 22:06 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsSwan Song is Kelleigh's sumptuous homage to legendary writer and party thrower, Truman Capote. In this imaginative telling, Kelleigh manages to paint a loving, yet deliciously lurid and compelling portrait of the troubled man through his trial of a childhood, his triumphs - social, literary, and...
Rachel Abbott, And So It Begins with Donna Freed AUTHOR OF THE WEEK
Radio Gorgeous - November 12, 2018 17:09 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsAuthor of the Week: Rachel Abbott, And So It Begins with Donna Freed Rachel's latest psychological thriller starts with the question: When does a murder begin? When you pick up the knife or far before that? But as per usual, on the page, it begins with a body! Rachel ratchets up the tension wit...
Imogen Edwards-Jones, The Witches of St Petersburg with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - November 02, 2018 11:12 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsImogen Edward-Jones, The Witches of St Petersburg with Donna Freed The true life story of the two raven-haired Montenegrin princesses that came to Russia and captivated the Romanov court. They brought with them glamour, sex and black magic and then introduced Rasputin to the tzarina to disastro...
Natasha Courtenay-Smith, Stand Out ONLINE, GORGEOUS ENTREPRENEURS with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - October 31, 2018 11:48 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsFormer journalist, Natasha knows the power of personal brands. When she started her own press agency, she made her agency stand out from the competition by putting herself and her staff front and centre of the business. As a result, she became the trusted, go to source. She sold that business an...
Caroline Taggart, Bognor and Other Regises with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - October 09, 2018 10:36 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsCaroline Taggart, Bognor and Other Regises, A Potted History of Britain in 100 Royal Places Sunday Times Bestselling author Caroline Taggart turns her searchlight on some of Britain's quirkiest royals, uncovering fascinating facts and anecdotes, all in highly amusing and accessible prose. Meet ...
Ella Mills, Deliciously Ella: The Plant Based Cookbook at the Cookbook Festival 2018 with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - October 01, 2018 13:15 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsElla Mills, food writer and entrepreneur under the brand Deliciously Ella focuses on natural food and putting vegetables at the centre of our plates and palates. Her latest book includes tried and tested recipes that she has developed along the Deliciously Ella journey. www.deliciouslyella.com...
Amy Heydenrych, Shame On You with Donna Freed AUTHOR OF THE WEEK
Radio Gorgeous - October 01, 2018 10:16 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWorking as a PR, Amy selected social media influencers to work with global brands and became fascinated by the disparity in their images and their real lives. In Shame of You, Holly is a clean eating social media sensation with a huge following. Her life starts spiralling out of control when she...
Jack Monroe & City Harvest's Laura Winningham & Paula Merrony at the Cookbook Festival with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - September 25, 2018 12:34 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsJack Monroe, campaigner & author of Cooking on a Bootstratp; Laura Winningham, co-founder of City Harvest London and Paula Merrony, head of operations at City Harvest London in conversation with Donna Freed at the Cookbook Festival 2018 The Cookbook Festival brought together food poverty campai...
Lynda La Plante, Widows with Donna Freed GORGEOUS READS
Radio Gorgeous - September 21, 2018 14:09 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsLynda La Plante's Widows with Donna Freed Lynda La Plante is the indisputable, reigning QUEEN OF CRIME. Widows was Lynda's first TV Script and while she was a TV actress at the time, she knew that she was not Dolly Rawlins. She never returned to acting and instead went on to create our most ico...
What Would Boudicca Do? E. Foley and B. Coates with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - September 05, 2018 11:44 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhat Would Boudicca Do? E. Foley and B. Coates with Donna Freed While we don't expect or want you to burn London to the ground every time someone pisses you off, but bad-ass Boudicca's method of dealing with adversity does have a certain appeal. The authors were inspired to find (only) 50 fanta...
Lucy Cufflin, co-founder of the Cookbook Festival with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - September 03, 2018 09:56 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsLucy Cufflin, co-founder of the Cookbook Festival with Donna Freed Lucy Cufflin has never been put off by being the first, especially when it comes to food. Her mother was the first foodie she knew and she has been working in food since she was a teen. She is a cookbook author herself, and know...
Francoise Malby Anthony & Katja Willemsen, An Elephant In My Kitchen with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - July 26, 2018 10:08 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsGorgeous Lives: Francoise Malby Anthony & Katja Willemsen, An Elephant In My Kitchen When Francoise Malby refused to share a taxi on a bone-chilling day in London with a scruffy, bearded man, it was the very last time she said no to future husband Lawrence Anthony. So when he said they should b...
Anna Mazzola, The Story Keeper with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - July 25, 2018 10:17 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsGreat Reads: Anna Mazzola, The Story Keeper with Donna Freed Anna Mazzola excels at creating the atmosphere of her historically set novels. In The Story Keeper, we follow Audrey Hart from 1857 London to the Isle of Skye where the clearances have wreaked havoc in the crofting communities where s...
Eve Crawford's Parliamentary Petition with Donna Freed on RADIO GORGEOUS
Radio Gorgeous - July 17, 2018 11:42 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsGorgeous Lives: Actress Eve Crawford's Crusade on Parliament Eve Crawford is petitioning Parliament to stop lawyers having access to counselling notes in rape and sexual assault cases. After she herself was assaulted, she was contacted by the Rape Crisis charity who while they encouraged her to...
Leila Aboulela, Elsewhere, Home with DONNA FREED, Author of The Week
Radio Gorgeous - July 05, 2018 12:59 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsLeila talks in-depth to Donna about her life in writing as an award winning novelist and playwright. Leila moved to Aberdeen following her husband with a baby and small child. Even though she had never considered being an author she frequented the library and found solace in the feminist novels ...
K.A. McKeagney, TUBING: Sex on the Tube with Donna Freed AUTHOR on Radio Gorgeous
Radio Gorgeous - July 03, 2018 11:45 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsStrangers on a train … having sex! Polly is a bit disenchanted with life and sex with a stranger seems like a delicious fantasy until it isn't. There's no such thing as a perfect stranger: neither perfect and perhaps not even a stranger… A thrilling (tube) ride that starts as fantasy and finish...
Noelle Harrison, The Gravity of Love with Donna Freed
Radio Gorgeous - July 02, 2018 10:29 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsA sweeping story of love spanning the swinging 60's of London and sultry desert nights in 80's Arizona. When your very identity is under question, how far and in what direction will love pull you? The death of her father sends shock waves through the life of Joy Sheldon and she sets out on a jou...
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