Sandi Toksvig
The broadcaster and quizmaster shares the music that has shaped her life.
Writer, comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig was born in Denmark to a Danish father and English mother and was brought up in Europe, Africa and the United States.
She鈥檚 done it all; politics, children's books, theatre plays, the great British Bake Off, and taken part in pretty much every panel show worth its salt, including of course hosting QI, the much loved and quite interesting panel show she鈥檚 hosted on television since 2016.
She was one of the members of the first all female comedy groups at Cambridge鈥檚 Footlights whilst gaining a first class degree, and in 2015 she co founded the Women's Equality Party. President of the Writers Guild of Great Britain, her writing credits take in radio, television and the stage.
Inherited: Secret Love by The Oscar Peterson Trio
Passed on: Don't Rain on my Parade by Barbara Streisand
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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