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Lives in a Landscape

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Documentary series telling original stories about real lives in Britain today

Lives in a Landscape: Series 16

Lives in a Landscape: Series 16: Episode 2: Waxing and Filing - Jade's Beautiful Dream

Waxing and Filing - Jade's Beautiful Dream

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Episode 2: Waxing and Filing - Jade's Beautiful Dream

Series 16

BBC Radio 4 - Lives in a Landscape, Series 16, Waxing and Filing - Jade's Beautiful Dream

Intimate waxing, nails and gossip. Up close and personal with beautician on a mission Jade

In a basement off Oxford Street, Jade is filing nails, stripping skin and massaging feet. Inside story on a London beautician hunting for new staff for her dream beauty parlour.

Jade has a dream - to run the best beauty parlour in the business.
Just off Oxford Street, shopping mecca of London's West End, Jade's salon paints nails to perfection, massages faces, and does intimate waxing with aplomb.
Intimacy with the clients is also what Jade is good at - knowing her customers, helping them make the most of their bodies, and their day. "Women come in to have their nails done," she tells Sangita Myska, "And they tell me I have saved their lives!"
A teenage rebel, she had a child at 14, and her life has had ups and downs. Growing up in Southampton she swore she would never move to London, but a chance encounter at a rave in Hackney, with a handsome Greek Cypriot, Angelo, changed her mind. Now she's married and hoping for another child - just as soon as she can find a like-minded beauty technician to share her passion for perfection.
Getting new talent is an up-hill battle - but if she can find the right person, the sky's the limit.

Presenter: Sangita Myska
Producer: Sara Jane Hall.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Stories about real lives in Britain today, presented by Alan Dein

Documentary series telling original stories about real lives in Britain today. Presented by Alan Dein

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