{"podcast":{"title":"Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor","slug":"spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678","podcast_index_feed_id":301678,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/fba1a06c-5366-4fde-9182-d47aa7f6f9f6","website_url":"http://www.sophieellisbextor.net","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/611e762606c05eb791f4093e/show-cover.jpg","author":"Kat Rulach","episode_count":185,"summary":"Hello I’m Sophie Ellis-Bextor and this is my podcast: Spinning Plates where I speak to busy working women, who also happen to be mothers, about how they make it work. I am a singer and have released 8 albums in-between having my 5 sons who are aged between 7 and 22 so I spin a few plates myself. Being a mother can be the most amazing thing.. but it can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. I want to be a little bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. Join me while I speak to a host of interesting and inspirational women who’ve really made me think - and laugh, and sometimes cry. Welcome to Spinning Plates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 172: Monisha Rajesh","slug":"episode-172-monisha-rajesh","published_at":"2026-01-19T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678/episode-172-monisha-rajesh","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678","url":"https://shows.acast.com/spinning-plates/episodes/episode-172-monisha-rajesh","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/spinning-plates/e/696ad7de36ab0b5268ba01c8/media.mp3","summary":"Monisha Rajesh is a travel writer who focuses on train travel adventures. She wrote her first book ‘Around India in 80 Trains’ after being made redundant, and she wrote ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’ just after her first daughter was born. My favourite of all though is Moonlight Express, her most recent book which is all about her experiences on night trains.  Monisha is a lovely writer, and I love so many of the pictures she paints of her journeys. One particular favourite is when she is travelling in India and the train door is open to the elements, and hearing the slap of leaves on the side of the train as it trundles along at just above jogging pace. Also I love the descriptions of dining cars. I flipping love a dining car!  Monisha talked about taking her two small daughters on train adventures and I feel very inspired to do the same. I hope if I do that I am as brave as she is in imposing a ban on screens for my small people. I want us to look out the window and see all the little worlds going by. Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Monisha Rajesh is a travel writer who focuses on train travel adventures. She wrote her first book ‘Around India in 80 Trains’ after being made redundant,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4087,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678/episodes/episode-172-monisha-rajesh/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678/episode-172-monisha-rajesh.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}