Sandi's Great British Woodland Restoration
4:40 pm - 5:45 pm, Saturday, February 28 on Channel 4 (4)
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About this Broadcast
As summer arrives, Sandi Toksvig and her wife Debbie fell trees, build wildlife ponds, release orphaned owls into the wild and welcome new life and the sunshine back into the once overgrown forest. They also battle fly-tipping and illegal off-roading through their woods. Sandi visits a newly planted woodland, ropes in some bat specialists and brings a beaver group from a local school to learn about nature, before she and Debbie reflect on the journey they've been on as they appreciate the beauty of the landscape around them
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Sandi Toksvig
(Presenter)
Debbie Toksvig
(Presenter)
Will Fegen
(Director)
Kelly Webb-Lamb
(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.
Debbie Toksvig
(Presenter)
Will Fegen
(Director)
Kelly Webb-Lamb
(Executive producer)
