Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig

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Season 3, Episode 4

Sandi is joined by comedian and author Rosie Jones for a journey round the Midlands exploring the best staycation retreats they have to offer. The pair begin in Rutland where they stay at the Rocket Lodge, an eco-build made of upcycled grain silos that boasts a wood-fired hot-tub, a circular kitchen and a disco bathroom. In the sand dunes on a strip of the Lincolnshire coastline, the duo stay in a rebooted 70s beach house called Sandy Feet where Sandi learns that 'Netflix and chill' doesn't mean what she thinks it does. They end their trip close to the Welsh border on the Walcot Estate in a 200-year-old hideaway known as the Wheelwright's shop that once lived 20 miles away but was dismantled and transported piece by piece before being rebuilt to look exactly the same

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Cast & Crew

Sandi Toksvig (Presenter)

Rosie Jones (Guest)

Colin Lennox (Series producer)

Ed St Giles (Series director)

Steph Harris (Executive producer)

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Did You Know..

Sandi Toksvig (Presenter)

Born: May 03, 1959 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Best Known For: Whose Line is it Anyway? and The News Quiz.

Early-life: Sandra Birgitte Toksvig was born in Copenhagen on May 3, 1958. Due to her father's job as a foreign correspondent for a Danish TV station, she grew up in Europe, Africa and the US. She studied anthropology, archaeology and law at Cambridge, and hoped to become a human rights lawyer. She won several prizes for academic achievements, and also appeared with the famous Footlights entertainment group. Sandi took a year off her studies to work as a lighting technician at a London theatre - and never looked back.

Career: Toksvig went on to work at Nottingham Playhouse and for the New Shakespeare Company before landing a job as a writer and performer on children's show No 73 in 1982. She then moved onto the comedy circuit and began to gain a wider following thanks to regular appearances on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, hosting the station's News Quiz, and Channel 4's Whose Line is it Anyway? She became a Call My Bluff team captain in 1997, and began presenting a revival of Fifteen-to-One in 2014. In 2015, she left her job as the presenter of The News Quiz to help set up the Women's Equality Party.

Quote: On the intellectuals she met while a Cambridge student: 'They could split the atom, but not wire a plug.'

Trivia: Toksvig was awarded an OBE in 2014. She has written several novels.