Saturday 2 July 2022

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Clue At 50 - Sandi Toksvig


DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: CLUE AT 50 -
SANDI TOKSVIG (320kbs-m4a/99mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th April 2022

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 father's 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 "asked to leave" 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

She's also Chancellor of Portsmouth University.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015.

Gene Kelly & Donald O'Connor & Debbie Reynolds - Good Morning [Premier]
Joe Nichols - What’'s A Guy Gotta Do [Show Dog/Universal Music]
Gustav Winckler - Vi Ønsker Jer Alle En Glædelig Jul [Polydor]
Stephen Schwartz - Magic To Do [Ghostlight]
The Weather Girls - It’s Raining Men [Columbia]
Barbra Streisand - Don’t Rain On My Parade [Columbia]
Florence Price - Symphony In E Minor, 3rd Movement [Albany]
Bonnie Langford - Such Modest Dreams [K-Tel]

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