Sandi Toksvig

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Sandi has been wowing audiences with her wit and verbal dexterity since her student days, when she appeared in the Cambridge Footlights reviews.

Now dividing her time between travelling, writing and performing, Sandi presents Radio 4’s Excess Baggage and The News Quiz and is a regular panellist on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and Call My Bluff.

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Now dividing her time between travelling, writing and performing, Sandi presents Radio 4’s Excess Baggage and The News Quiz and is a regular panellist on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and Call My Bluff.

Toksvig studied Law, Archaeology and Anthropology at Girton College Cambridge University, she also studied Muslim law as part of her extra studies, she had hoped to become a human rights lawyer.

She won The Theresa Montefiore Memorial Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement and The Raemakers Prize for Archaeology and left with a first class degree in law.

Sandi has written a number of children’s books, starting with Tales From The Norse’s Mouth. As well as her many fiction books for adults, she has also been successful with non-fiction, including Island Race, an account of her voyage around the coast of Great Britain with John McCarthy. Back on dry land, she toured as part of another double act; with Bonnie Langford in their two-woman show, Short and Curly.

Her latest children’s book Hitler’s Canary has sold worldwide and her new novel for adults Melted into Air was published in July 2006. Sandi has regular columns in The Sunday Telegraph and Good Housekeeping.

When Sandi is not presenting her radio show or writing, she is in great demand as and after-dinner speaker and guest host

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