Hidden Gem: Where the best Italian restaurants and cabaret clubs are in London. Includes parody tracks which can only be found on this episode and nowhere else!

This is a Hidden Gem (🫣💎 ) episode of Best of London including an interesting section from a previous full length episode.

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You can listen to the FULL episode which this HIDDEN GEM is taken from by going to the previous edition of BEST OF LONDON. In which the guest tells us their favourite places to go and things to do in London.

In this episode we hear from Romano Viazzani, a world-class musician with deep London roots and a story unlike any other who's recorded with Oscar winning directors and worked with huge music legends like Grace Jones. He's also one of the world’s finest accordionists.

He grew up in the heart of Soho, one of the rare few raised within its tight-knit Italian community. As a child, he recorded a song at the iconic Abbey Road Studios, where The Beatles made history, and his track went on to be heard by millions around the world.

He's toured the world with bands and written breathtakingly beautiful albums and soundtracks including one which was part of a film by a director who's films have won Oscars and as you'll find out it was a film that I was in.

He's performed alongside musical greats like Grace Jones, Sir Bryn Terfel, and members of Roxy Music. He also won the BBC Album of the Year award as part of a renowned jazz septet.

You can visit his website here:

https://romanoviazzani.com/

You can buy his London Tango CD with detailed liner notes here:

https://zzmusic.uk/accordionshop/recordings/the-romano-viazzani-ensemble-london-tango/

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David Lynch and Julia Cameron both have a lifehack which can give you a happy and fulfilled life if you do them every day.

This is a Hidden Gem (🫣💎 ) episode with Etan Ilfeld

Our guest is an incredibly intelligent, interesting and insightful individual who’s the owner of Watkins Media and Watkins Books and founded The Mind Sports Olympiad and Mind Body Spirit Magazine.

He invented diving chess which involves playing chess at the bottom of a swimming pool and there are annual tournaments with competitors from all over the world. His media company has released many popular, well reviewed, bestselling and award winning books.

He has recently launched the Ilfeld Prize and he hosts a podcast which has guests such as the acclaimed film director David Lynch and he’s written his own books and he even recently created The Synchronicity Oracle. This is Best of London according to Etan Ilfeld

⁠https://watkinspublishing.com/free-books-for-subscriptions/⁠

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⁠https://mindsportsolympiad.com/⁠

For the film Pentamind click here:

⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_84gvzZcXw⁠

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⁠https://www.ilfeldprize.com/⁠

For diving chess click here:

⁠https://divingchess.com/⁠

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FREE Music, Meditation, Mini-Museums, Concerts and Peaceful Havens! Including a 900 year old one! BEST OF LONDON Hidden Gem episode with Living London History presented by Ben Holland

My guest's a bestselling author, millions watch his videos he was recommended by our former guest when she was on Best of London. He published his first book called London: A Guide for Curious Wanderers, which was a Sunday Times Bestseller and his name is JACK CHESHER.

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  Each week I ask a guest 7 questions including what’s your best London venue, event, place to eat, area and London Lifehack.

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This is a hidden gem (🫣💎) episode. To listen to the full episode click here:

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My guest has acted in stage plays, musicals and feature films. She wrote and released an album which is beautifully sung and has raw, honest, dark and funny lyrics. She has a podcast about her life. She’s an IT guru, a trained lifeguard, and she wrote and performed a chapter in world famous comedian Katherine Ryan’s bestselling audiobook, The Audacity, and she’s voiced a number of other audiobooks. She features in the excellent recently released UK TV series Katherine Ryan Parental Guidance. This... is Best of London… According To… Julie McCarthy

You can follow her on instagram @jewelssays

Her podcast is also called Jewels Says

She has a darkly comic album available on Spotify called I'll Be Drunk For Christmas by Jewels Sings

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