Episode 129: Anne Twist
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Anne Twist is a first time writer and a long-term philanthropist who has two very succesful grown up children. Her eldest is podcaster and writer Gemma Styles, and her youngest is the singer, Harry Styles.
I spoke to Anne, not long after she’d become a grandmother for the first time, which sounds like a very special feeling indeed. She’d also just published her first children’s book ‘Betty and the Mysterious Visitor’.
We talked about Anne’s lifelong battle with shyness, the pride that she feels about the adults that both her children have become, and how she gets so much pleasure from looking around at people while they are watching Harry perform on stage.
We also talked about how Anne has wing-walked to raise money and awareness for Parkinson’s. And I tried to persuade her to do a double wing walk and a loop the loop with me in the future! I’m genuinely up for it.
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:22.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing. |
| 0:24.6 | It can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:26.8 | and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.3 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:36.9 | No, they're tights. |
| 0:38.1 | No, for a second. |
| 0:39.0 | We thought they were so dirty that they were... |
| 0:41.7 | You thought that the colour of my tights was the colour of my legs? |
| 0:45.5 | No, that your legs were like that and it wasn't tough. |
| 0:49.0 | You thought my legs were just really dark, black, sooty, sooty legs. |
| 0:54.1 | They were really, like, dirty. Yeah, no, sooty, sooty legs. They were really like dirty. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, no, it's sheer tights. |
| 0:59.0 | Very sheer, right. |
| 1:00.0 | Jesse, I need to talk to this. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello. |
| 1:03.0 | Sorry, that started off unexpected way, didn't it? |
| 1:06.0 | I came into the garden and Jesse's, I'm wearing quite sheer tights |
| 1:08.0 | and he just said, I thought that was your leg colour. |
| 1:10.0 | He thought my legs were sort of, I don't know, kind of sooty legs. |
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