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Sandi Toksvig (born 3 May 1958 in Copenhagen) is a comedian, author, and radio presenter well-known in the United Kingdom.
Career
Her father was a foreign correspondent for a Danish television channel, so she spent most of her youth abroad (including the USA). She studied law and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, but ended up getting into drama. She wrote and performed in the first all-woman show at the Cambridge Footlights and was a member of Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society, and moved via children's television into the comedy circuit. She performed at the first night of The Comedy Store in London and was once part of The Comedy Store Players, an improvisational comedy team.
Her television career has included presenting the children's series Number 73 (television), Saturday Starship, Get Fresh, Motormouth and Gilbert's Fridge, and on factual programmes such as Island Race. She has appeared as a panellist in shows such as Call My Bluff, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Have I Got News For You.
She is a current voice on BBC Radio 4, as a frequent guest on shows such as I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Mock The Week, The News Quiz and has appeared in the Radio 4 comedy "Giles Wemmbly Hogg". She joked in February 2006 that, as a result of studying Muslim law, being Danish, and the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, she has never been so sought after. She is the main presenter of the flagship travel programme Excess Baggage. For three years until December 2005 she presented a weekday lunchtime programme on London talk radio station LBC 97.3, featuring regular guests including Bonnie Langford, Alkarim Jivani, and Annie Caulfield.
She has written several fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults, starting in 1994 with Tales from the Norse's mouth, a fiction tale for children. In 1995, she sailed around the coast of Britain with John McCarthy. In 2003, she published her travel biography,Gladys Reunited: A Personal American Journey, about her travels in the USA retracing her childhood.
Politics
She supports the Liberal Democrats and has appeared on the BBC's Question Time. In 2003 she stood as a candidate in the election for the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, supporting a campaign against student fees.
Personal life
She and her ex-partner Peta are mothers to three children, conceived through artificial insemination by donor: two daughters (born 1989 and 1991) and a son (born 1995). In 1994, Save the Children dropped her services after she came out; protests by the Lesbian Avengers led to the charity taking her back again.
Bibliography
Books for children
- Hitler's Canary, Sandi Toksvig, Doubleday, July 2005
- The Troublesome Tooth Fairy, Sandi Toksvig, Transworld, November 2000, ISBN 0552546631
- Super-Saver Mouse to the Rescue, Sandi Toksvig, Transworld, April 2000, ISBN 0552545414
- Super-Saver Mouse, Sandi Toksvig, Transworld, September 1999, ISBN 0552545406
- If I didn't have elbows, Sandi Toksvig, Deagosti, April 1998, ISBN 1840890487
- Unusual Day, Sandi Toksvig, Transworld/Corgi, April 1997, ISBN 0552545392
- If this had never been invented, Sandi Toksvig, Deagosti, 1996
- Tales from the Norse's mouth, Sandi Toksvig, BBC Books, March 1994, ISBN 0563403586
Books for adults
- Forgotten Forest, Sandi Toksvig, scheduled for publication June 2007
- Melted into Air, Sandi Toksvig, Little Brown, scheduled for publication July 2006
- Whistling for the Elephants, Sandi Toksvig, Little Brown, August 1999
- Gladys Reunited: A Personal American Journey, Sandi Toksvig, Little Brown, 2003, ISBN 0751533289
- Tell The Fuhrer It's Shakespeare, Sandi Toksvig, Little Brown, December 2002
- The Travels of Lady Bulldog Burton, Sandi Toksvig and Sandy Nightingale, Little Brown, September 2002
- Flying Under Bridges, Sandi Toksvig, Little Brown, April 2001
- Whistling for the Elephants, Sandi Toksvig, Transworld, August 1999, ISBN 0593044800
- Drowning in the desert, Sandi Toksvig, Transworld, 1998
- Great journeys of the world, Sandi Toksvig et al, Penguin, 1997
- Island race : an improbable voyage round the coast of Britain, John McCarthy and Sandy Toksvig, BBC Books, 1995.
External links
- Book agent for Sandi Toksvig, listing books published
- LBC 97.3 radio show related blog (no longer maintained)