Sandi Toksvig

At 65 years old, Sandi Toksvig has this physical status:

Career

Toksvig began her comedy career at Girton, where she wrote and appeared in the first all-woman show at the Footlights. Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, and Emma Thompson all attended Perrier's Revue, and she contributed to Perpet's award-winning Perpetue. She was also a member of the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society.

She began her television career on children's television, presenting No. 1 as the No. 1 in the United States. The Sandwich Quiz, The Saturday Starship, Motormouth, Gilbert's Fridge, for Television South, and factual programs such as Island Race and The Talking Show were produced by Open Media for Channel 4 in 1982-1986. In 2000, she appeared on Time Team as a guest host on a dig in New York (season 7 episode 13).

Toksvig appeared on the first night of the Comedy Store in London and was once a member of the Players, an improvisational comedy troupe.

She appeared on television as a panelist on shows including Call My Bluff (a regular as a team captain), Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, QI, and Have I Got News for You, where she appeared on the first episode in 1990. She appeared on What the Dickens, a Sky Arts quiz show, as well as the host of What the Dickens.

She appeared on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, The Unbelievable Truth, and as the chair of The News Quiz, where she replaced Simon Hoggart in September 2006 but left in June 2015 to advocate for women's rights. Her last program was on June 26, 2015, the first time she was seen on television. Excess Baggage, Radio 4's travel show, was on display until it was canceled in 2012.

Toksvig wrote a musical, Big Night Out, for Nottingham Playhouse in 1993, co-starring Anita Dobson and Una Stubbs. It was re-written for the Watford Palace Theatre in 2002, when it was performed with Bonnie Langford. Toksvig and Elly Brewer produced The Pocket Dream, a Shakespeare deconstruction, which Toksvig performed at the Nottingham Playhouse and then moved to the West End for a short time. The two also produced the 1992 TV series The Big One, in which she appeared. She has appeared in a number of stage plays, including Androcles and the Lion, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Comedy of Errors.

In 1996, she narrated the Dragons!

Oxford University Press' interactive CD-ROM was released by Oxford University Press and created by Inner Workings in partnership with Harry Enfield. The app was mainly aimed at children and featured songs and poems about dragons. The Winnie the Witch CD-ROM was also narrated by the author. In August 2006, she appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama Red by Big Finish Productions. Make the Yuletide Gay, a sold-out Christmas show at the Barbican Centre in December 2006, performed and sang at the London Gay Men's Chorus sold-out Christmas show. She narrated the pantomime Cinderella at the Old Vic Theatre over Christmas and New Year 2008/2008. In October 2011, she narrated the new musical Soho Cinders at the Queen's Theatre in London. She appeared on BBC Two's Antiques Master for the second time in 2011.

Bully Boy, Toksvig's play, focusing on British servicemen's post-traumatic stress. In May 2011, the play premiered at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton, starring Anthony Andrews. The production debuted in September 2012, the first new West End theatre to open in 30 years, in September 2012.

Toksvig performed in the BBC's Call the Midwife's 2013 Christmas Special, as grumpy ward nurse Sister Gibbs.

Toksvig's Toksvig will leave BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz in June at the end of the 28th season, which was scheduled to begin on May 15th of this year, but it was announced on April 28th. "I have decided that it is time to move forward," she said. Of course, I feel sad, but I believe it is the right time to move forward." The display is in great shape, and as a good house guest, you should always leave if people want to stay a bit longer." Toksvig's "difficult decision" to leave in order "to embark on a new and exciting stage of her career," according to the BBC. Toksvig revealed on April 30, 2015, that she had opted not to leave The News Quiz in order to enable her to help form the Women's Equality Party, a new political group.

Toksvig appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in November 2015. She's favorites included Joe Nichols ("What a Guy Gotta Do"), Gustav Winckler, The Weather Girls, Barbra Streisand, and Bonnie Langford. The Ashley Book of Knots was her book choice, and her luxury item was an endless supply of the Daily Mail.

Silver Lining's most recent performance opened at the Rose Theatre Kingston on February 11, 2017 before heading to Portsmouth, Oxford, Cambridge, Ipswich, York, and Salford. In a retirement home that is about to be flooded by a storm, five elderly ladies and a young carer center it. Rachel Davies, Keziah Joseph, Maggie McCarthy, Joanna Monro, Sheila Reid, and Amanda Walker appear in the program. Theo Toksvig-Stewart, Toksvig's son, made his professional debut in the role.

Toksvig appeared on Julia Gillard's podcast on June 11, 2019. "Wikipedia is a marvel invention, and the suggestion is that it is a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of knowledge," Toksvig says, which is a fantastic concept. However, what's happening is that women are disappearing, so 90% of Wikipedia's content is about men and their accomplishments, while 90 percent are concerned about women, and 89 percent are about women. According to 1%, the people are still making up their minds. So this number is completely out of kilter, and we urgently need to do something about it. Parts of the issue are that volunteers edit it, but over 350,000 "uber" volunteers tend to be the same guy who has the time to sit and do it and doesn't have laundry to do, and are actively editing women out. There are two main issues: 1) women's contributions are not being considered, and 2) women are being edited out... I am determined to change this if we can."

Toksvig produced and performed "Vox Tox," a YouTube mini-series that she created during the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020. These 10-minute sessions promoted women of all ages, being inspired by Toksvig's own collection of books and biographies.

Toksvig has published more than twenty children and adults, as well as Tales from the Norse's Mouth, a children's fiction book. She and John McCarthy, who had been held hostage in Beirut, sailed around the coast of the United Kingdom in 1995. Gladys Reunited: A Personal American Journey, a memoir of her childhood in the United States, released in 2003. She appears in Good Housekeeping, the Sunday Telegraph, and The Lady in regular columns. Girls Are The Best, a history book for girls, was released in October 2008.

The Chain of Curiosity, her edited columns for The Sunday Telegraph in 2009 were released in book form. Valentine Grey, a historical novel set in Boer War, was released in 2012. Hitler's Canary, a young adult book published in 2006, is a Holocaust tale told by a boy named Bamse and his family. The characters are based on Toksvig's own father and grandmother; the family heroism in the story closely matches the author's father's. Between the Stops: A Look at My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus was published on October 29, 2019.

0 Things You Should Know For Channel 4 daytime, Toksvig reported 1001 Things You Should Know in 2012-2013. In April 2014, Toksvig unveiled the revival of the daytime game show Fifteen-to-One. It's an hour longer than William G. Stewart's original half-hour version. After two series had been on display in June 2015, Channel 4 announced that a new eight series would be produced, hosted by Toksvig until the revived series ended on June 28.

Toksvig took over QI's host Stephen Fry, making her "the first female host of a British mainstream TV comedy panel show," a claim she found unusual in 2016. This was her first appearance as host (or Bantermeister) on the first episode of the show's series "N" on Sunday, which was broadcast on October 21, 2016.

On March 16, 2017, she was announced as the new co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4, alongside Noel Fielding. Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, the former hosts, were replaced. She declared that she would not be leaving the show to concentrate on other work commitments in January 2020 and was replaced by Matt Lucas.

Sandi Toksvig, Channel 4's four-part travel show Extraordinary Escapes, premiered on February 2021. Channel 4 revived the series in December 2021 for a second season, which premiered on January 17th 2022.

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Honours and awards

• 1997 – The Grand Order of Water Rats Show Business Personality of the Year
• 2007 – Political Humourist of the Year at the Channel 4 Political Awards and 2007 – Radio Broadcaster of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild
• 2007 – Read it or Else Award from Coventry Inspiration Book Awards for Hitler's Canary
• 2008 – Broadcaster of the Year at the Stonewall Awards
• 2009 – Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for Individual Contribution to Radio
• 2013 – Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for Excellence in Broadcasting (Roberts Radio Special Award)
• 2017 – CoScan (Confederation of Scandinavian Societies) International Award