Sandi Toksvig: Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought? — FLAPSS

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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?

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Sandi Toksvig

Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer

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My five-litre Ford Mustang.

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

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John Waters American filmmaker

It's bad taste to brag about money.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗

Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

Art. We have some Picassos and Diego Riveras.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

Katherine Parkinson English actor

A Chanel dress. I bought it with my first proper paycheck and it was ridiculously expensive. It is also hideous.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 September 2020 source ↗

Jake Shears Singer and songwriter; co-lead vocalist of Scissor Sisters

A Henry Darger painting. Sadly, I lost it in the divorce, but it was a great parting gift.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 July 2021 source ↗

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Question If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change? Failure & regret

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

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

Question How would you describe what love feels like to you? Relationships

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.

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

Question What most recently moved you to tears? Identity & self

When I read the story of a blind, bisexual goose called Thomas who had died in New Zealand after a lifetime of love for a swan called Henry. It sounds ridiculous but is entirely true.

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

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

As having done my best.

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

Question What thought won't let you sleep? Daily life

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

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

Question What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life? Daily life

My life won’t have full quality until we achieve equality for all.

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

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