Episode 70: Emilia Sandulescu
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Meet someone who literally ran away to join the circus! Emilia Sandulescu is the proud mum of a sweet one year old boy, who everyone calls 'baby Tony'. Originally from Romania, Emily joined the circus temporarily as a dancer, planning to use her wages to fund the rest of her studies at university. But she never went back. Two decades on she now performs acrobatics on horses, alongside - and sometimes balancing on top of! - her husband. He is one of five boys and a ninth generation circus performer. Emilia told me what life in the circus involves and how she loves the friendly, tight knit community. The much longed-for baby Tony is surrounded by adoring adults, melting the tough guy exteriors of his circus uncles and grandfather, and Emilia can't imagine life anywhere else.
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis Bextor,
it is produced by Claire Jones and post-production is by Richard Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lyspexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to |
| 0:09.6 | busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.0 | 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. |
| 0:22.3 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.9 | but 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. |
| 0:42.3 | This podcast has a circus theme. I hope you're good. Roll up, roll up. No, I'll stop now. It's just because it was really fun recording this week's podcast with Amelia from Gifford Circus |
| 0:57.8 | because I've probably told you already but right from the beginning of doing these podcast chats |
| 1:03.5 | I thought it'd be great to, you know, speak to people from all over different professions, different |
| 1:09.3 | backgrounds and I think speaking to someone |
| 1:12.9 | who ran away and joined the circus is absolutely on that list. And Amelia was lovely and it's been |
| 1:21.4 | very, very hot here in London town. So on the day we recorded, it was boiling. And then in the evening, went back to the |
| 1:29.6 | circus with the kids to see the show. And it was so brilliant. Amelia has one-year-old Tony with her |
| 1:38.0 | husband, who's also called Tony, who's in an act with his dad, who also called Tony and they are nine generations back circus horse |
| 1:48.8 | acrobats and all of the guys are called Tony and Tony Jr., Junior Junior, Amelia's husband. |
| 2:00.1 | He's got his brothers in the show. |
| 2:01.7 | And they have Tony in their name, their first name isn't Tony. |
| 2:04.0 | So she actually managed to marry the Tony, to carry on the line of Tony, |
| 2:07.3 | and then have their baby Tony. |
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