Sandi Toksvig: What thought won't let you sleep? — FLAPSS

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What thought won't let you sleep?

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Sandi Toksvig

Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer

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

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

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Mo Gilligan British comedian

Material. I wake up in the middle of the night and write jokes.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗

Olivia Williams British actress

All the things I ought to have done.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 April 2022 source ↗

Shirley Manson Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage

Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗

Laurence Fox English actor and activist

Worry about being self-employed. Nowadays, I don’t lose sleep over my divorce – I did for about a year.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2019 source ↗

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Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

Last Tuesday at 10 past three.

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

Question What song would you want played at your funeral? Death & what remains

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

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 ↗

Question What is the worst job you have ever had? Craft & work

Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.

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 How close have you come to dying? Death & what remains

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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