Sandi Toksvig: What song would you want played at your funeral? — FLAPSS

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What song would you want played at your funeral?

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Sandi Toksvig

Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer

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How about The Hokey Cokey? That’s always fun, especially if they’re carrying the coffin.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

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Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian

Tears Of Laughter by Cheese and Crackers. We wrote it for an episode of Inside No 9 and it ends “Laughter is my memory of you...”

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗

Nicola Walker British actress

Funerals are for the people left behind, so I don’t mind.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2017 source ↗

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

The Rolling Stones’ You Can’t Always Get What You Want.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗

Alison Steadman British actress

The Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗

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Last Tuesday at 10 past three.

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My five-litre Ford Mustang.

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I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.

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Like driving a Ford Mustang with the top down across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun is setting and you have a dinner reservation in Sausalito.

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I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

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Bloody radiator keeps banging. I think it needs air releasing but I don’t have a bleeding key.

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