Episode 139: Lliana Bird
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Lliana Bird is a writer, broadcaster and co-founder of the charity Choose Love. She describes herself as a butterfly flitting from flower to flower. She was also the longest employed female DJ - for 16 years - at Xfm and then Radio X as it is now called.
Lliana and her partner Noel Fielding have two girls, Dali and Iggy, aged 2 and 4, and Lliana told me how their house might be described as over-stimulating by some, with constant music, curated mostly by Noel but increasingly by the children, and with art being created on giant canvases in the kitchen, with paint splats everywhere.
Lliana's first children’s book ‘Baboo the unusual Bee’ has just come out in paperback. She revealed that she actually wrote it while breastfeeding and she’s now working on the stage show version of it.
As my mum would say: "She's no slouch"!
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, |
| 0:25.0 | 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. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:34.8 | Hola, greetings from Mexico City. |
| 0:38.3 | I am on my final stop of my Around the World trip. |
| 0:41.3 | It has been quite the week. |
| 0:43.3 | I had breakfast in Brisbane on Monday morning. |
| 0:48.3 | Then we flew three flights to go from Brisbane to New Zealand, |
| 0:53.3 | New Zealand to Houston, Houston to Fort Lauderdale, |
| 0:56.5 | landed there Monday night, did gigs Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. So Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, |
| 1:02.0 | Orlando on Wednesday, Atlanta on Thursday. Friday, yesterday, flew to Mexico City, where I now am. |
| 1:08.9 | And today is a day off the Fortamore's Corona Capital Festival show, where I now am, and today is a day off before tomorrow's Corona Capital Festival |
| 1:13.1 | show, where we're headlining one of the stages, which is fun. And I've got to say morale |
| 1:19.2 | is pretty good. We were all really chaffed with how well the US shows went if you came along. Thank |
| 1:25.2 | you. I thought we were going to feel absolutely wrecked by the jet lag, |
| 1:28.8 | but we're actually all right. |
| 1:30.6 | And Mexico City is such a fun place. |
| 1:33.0 | I haven't been here for over 20 years. |
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