Sandi Toksvig
4 Extra Debut. From Barbra Streisand to The Weather Girls. Comedian Sandi Toksvig shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2015.
From Barbra Streisand to The Weather Girls.
Comedian, writer, broadcaster and political activist, Sandi Toksvig shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young.
Sandi's parents were both broadcasters. Her mother worked as a studio manager and announcer before she married. Her Danish fatherβs job as a foreign correspondent took the family around the world.
Sandi and her siblings spent much of their childhood in the United States. When she was βasked to leaveβ yet another American school, her parents sent her to boarding school in England. She soon decided to lose her strong American accent and went on to Cambridge, where she performed in the Footlights.
In addition to writing, she's continued to appear regularly on TV and radio shows as both panellist and host
Sheβs also Chancellor of Portsmouth University.
First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in November 2015.
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