Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Saturday, August 29 on Channel 4 +1 (15)
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Sandi takes her first ever trip to Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland to discover what life would have been like for the soldiers, their families, the traders and enslaved people at the edge of the Roman Empire almost 2000 years ago. At the nearby site of Vindolanda, Sandi helps clean a massive size 14 boot, discovered in one of Magna Fort's defensive ditches
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Sandi Toksvig
(Presenter)
Mike Taylor
(Series director)
Julie Grant
(Series producer)
Sally Evans
(Executive producer)
Amanda de Freitas
(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.
Mike Taylor
(Series director)
Julie Grant
(Series producer)
Sally Evans
(Executive producer)
Amanda de Freitas
(Executive producer)
