{"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 178: Fran Cutler","slug":"episode-178-fran-cutler","published_at":"2026-03-02T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678/episode-178-fran-cutler","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spinning-plates-with-sophie-ellis-bextor-301678","url":"https://shows.acast.com/spinning-plates/episodes/episode-178-fran-cutler","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/spinning-plates/e/69a43330bbda7540f4f2d6d4/media.mp3","summary":"Fran Cutler is famous for organising wild parties attended by A-listers. Things really took off in the 90s when she started organising parties for Oasis albums with Meg Matthews.  She’s a self-confessed technophobe and she’s using this fallow Glastonbury year, to write a memoir which she promises will be both salacious and funny. She brought up her daughter Mercy on her own, after the father left 3 months into her pregnancy. She resolved at that moment to work twice as hard as anyone else to support her daughter who she is super close to, along with her mum, sister and nieces.  Fran told me about her dubious claim to fame: projectile vomitting! And she shared her tips for getting rid of problematic party guests. Let’s I hope I never prove to be one of them!  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":"Fran Cutler is famous for organising wild parties attended by A-listers. Things really took off in the 90s when she started organising parties for Oasis a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4013,"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-178-fran-cutler/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-178-fran-cutler.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}