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Ulex XL
Season 21, Episode 15
Host Sandi Toksvig is joined by panellists Bridget Christie, Rosie Jones, Cariad Lloyd and Alan Davies. They explore Ulex and other uncommon U words
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Cast & Crew
Sandi Toksvig
(Host)
Alan Davies
(Panellist)
Bridget Christie
(Panellist)
Cariad Lloyd
(Panellist)
Rosie Jones
(Panellist)
John Lloyd
(Executive producer)
Piers Fletcher
(Series producer)
Diccon Ramsay
(Director)
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Did You Know..
Sandi Toksvig
(Host)
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.
Alan Davies
(Panellist)
Born:
March 06, 1966
in
Loughton, Essex
Best Known For:
Jonathan Creek and being the permanent panellist on QI.
Early-life:
Alan Roger Davies was born in Loughton, Essex, on March 6, 1966. Together with his older brother and younger sister, Alan was raised by his accountant father, following the death of his mother from leukaemia when he was six. Despite disliking school, he was a bright child and passed 12 O-Levels and two A-Levels before studying drama at the University of Kent. On graduating, he signed on for an Enterprise Allowance Scheme to help fund his assault on the London comedy circuit.
Career:
Davies performed his first stand-up gig in 1988, and by the early 1990s was a rising star, picking up rave reviews at Edinburgh. He later gave up playing clubs to concentrate on radio. His Radio 1 series, Alan's Big One FM, led to TV appearances on shows such as One Foot in the Grave, before he was cast as the lead in Jonathan Creek, the light-hearted mystery drama that made him a household name. Other acting work includes Bob and Rose, A Many Splintered Thing, The Brief, Marple, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008), Lewis and Whites. He presented the three-part documentary Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution for Channel 4 in 2010 and was a judge in 2011 on ITV talent show Show Me the Funny. He's also appeared in West End hit Auntie and Me. He has been a permanent panellist on irreverent quiz QI since the show began in 2003.
Quote:
"I'm like a fine wine. I'm maturing."
Trivia:
In early 2012, he announced his first UK stand-up tour in 12 years.
Bridget Christie
(Panellist)
Born:
August 17, 1971
in
Gloucester
Best Known For:
Being a stand-up comedian.
Early-life:
Bridget was born in Gloucester on August 17, 1971. She is the youngest of nine brothers and sisters. She studied acting at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in Wandsworth, London. In 2003, she found work on the diary desk of the Daily Mail. She began doing stand-up in the evenings.
Career:
Christie spent five years working at the Daily Mail before turning to stand-up full time. She took her first show to the Edinburgh Festival in 2005 and she has performed there every year since. In 2009, her show My Daily Mail Hell chronicled her time at the newspaper. Her 2013 show, A Bic for Her, won the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award and it played to packed houses at the Edinburgh Festival, Brighton Comedy Festival and London's Soho Theatre. Christie has also appeared on a number of TV shows, including The Omid Djalili Show, Harry Hill's Little Cracker, Anna & Katy, It's Kevin and Have I Got News for You. Her Radio 4 series about feminism, Bridget Christie Mind the Gap, premiered in March 2013.
Quote:
"Comedy goes in cycles - if you hold on long enough, and just keep doing what you love doing, it'll eventually come round."
Trivia:
Christie married fellow comedian Stewart Lee in 2006.
Cariad Lloyd
(Panellist)
Rosie Jones
(Panellist)
John Lloyd
(Executive producer)
Piers Fletcher
(Series producer)
Diccon Ramsay
(Director)
