Episode 47: Kate Robinson
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Kate Robinson is a writer, a speaker and a mother. She’s making it her mission to continue her father’s legacy and finish the book he was writing. It’s a promise she made to him just before his untimely death last year. Kate’s beloved Dad was Sir Ken Robinson, whose TED Talk about education remains the most watched TED Talk nearly 2 decades after he delivered it. Probably because he is so charismatic, funny and wise. And because education touches us all, whether we have children or not. If you haven’t watched it, here’s the link - it’s worth it!
Kate and I talked about her own bumpy road through school and how her parents ‘unschooled’ her at the age of 16. She also shared her hopes and fears as she puts her own 3 year old daughter Adeline onto the first rung of the education system.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to |
| 0:09.6 | 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, |
| 0:20.2 | so I spin a few plates myself. Being a mother |
| 0:22.8 | can be the most amazing thing, but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own |
| 0:27.3 | ambitions. I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. Welcome to spinning |
| 0:32.6 | plates. Hey my darlings, you find me on a very wet and windy Halloween morning. So it's October 31st. It's nearly 10 o'clock in the morning. I have been up for hours, but I'll get to that in a minute. But I'm looking out over International Spooky Day. And I'm in London and it's raining and it's |
| 0:57.6 | windy and it doesn't I suppose it does look a bit foreboding but really more in a kind of I |
| 1:03.5 | don't really want to go trick or treating in that kind of a way and I've got a mixture of trick or |
| 1:09.3 | treaters some more enthusiastic than others. |
| 1:12.0 | I think they would all be very enthusiastic if all the costumes had arrived that were ordered. |
| 1:17.4 | I'm usually completely cool with making stuff, and we've also got a sack full of old Halloween costumes. |
| 1:23.6 | But, I don't know if this has happened in your house, but my children's Halloween inspiration |
| 1:28.8 | has taken a new turn because we have several children who wanted to be Squid Game characters. |
| 1:37.7 | So even my Fiverr I wanted to be from Squid Game. |
| 1:40.8 | When I first asked him, when you want to be for Halloween, he said, the robot girl from red light, greenlight, which I actually thought was genius. And if you've seen the programme, you'll know what I'm talking about. But then he quickly changed it to he wanted to be a guard. But his suit and Ray, who wanted to be one of the Squid Game participants, one of the players, I believe he wanted to be number of 457. |
| 2:03.2 | His outfit hasn't turned up either, so I've got two kids without their costumes. |
| 2:06.7 | So they are going to be ghouls and goblins and vampires and all the usual stuff. |
| 2:10.7 | But yeah, a little bit of Halloween tears this morning because the costumes aren't here. |
| 2:16.7 | And if you haven't seen Squid Game, which I suspect |
| 2:21.1 | you probably have, because I feel like everybody's seen it, but if you haven't, maybe you still |
| 2:24.7 | know a little bit about the show. And it's a Korean show that has been number one and Netflix, |
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