Hitler's Canary

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Moorhead, Joanna (20 February 2016). "Jesse Toksvig-Stewart: My two mums were trailblazers". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 November 2018. Toksvig wrote a play entitled Bully Boy which focused on post-traumatic stress among British servicemen. The play premièred at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton in May 2011, and starred Anthony Andrews. [22] The play then launched the debut season of St James Theatre in September 2012, the first new West End theatre to open in 30 years. [23]

Liberal England: Time for Sandi Toksvig to give up The News Quiz". liberalengland.blogspot.co.uk. Liberal England (blog). 2 February 2013 . Retrieved 13 April 2015. In 1996, she narrated the Dragons! interactive CD-ROM published by Oxford University Press and developed by Inner Workings, along with Harry Enfield. [20] The software was primarily aimed at children and featured songs and poems about dragons. She also narrated the Winnie the Witch CD-ROM. She appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama Red by Big Finish Productions, released in August 2006. In December 2006, she hosted and sang at the London Gay Men's Chorus sold-out Christmas show, Make the Yuletide Gay, at the Barbican Centre. [21] Over Christmas and New Year 2007/2008, she narrated the pantomime Cinderella at the Old Vic Theatre. In October 2011, she narrated the new musical Soho Cinders at the Queen's Theatre, London. In 2011, she hosted a second season of BBC Two's Antiques Master. Minter, Harriet (21 October 2015). "The Women's Equality Party launch is not a moment too soon". The Guardian . Retrieved 21 October 2015.

In late 2022, Toksvig was hospitalised in Australia with bronchial pneumonia, and was forced to cancel her upcoming New Zealand tour dates. [84] On 6 December 2022, she announced that she had left hospital, but was still not well enough to travel. [85] On 15 December, it was reported that she had returned to the UK. [86] Honours and awards [ edit ] He said there was a landing strip on a nearby beach and believes caves beneath the vast building once housed Nazi subs. There is a wild theory Adolf Hitler underwent secret surgery at the villa along with his personal adjutant Albert Bormann (pictured right). Picture: Jakob Werlin Told in a series of Acts as Bamse’s family is one of actors who love performing on the stage, this is his story of how war came to Denmark in 1940 and how all Germans are not bad and all the Danes were not good. He says there are good and bad people all over and it’s not always easy to tell the difference. Toksvig supports the charity and pressure group Liberty, hosting its 2012 awards ceremony. [50] She was appointed president of the Women of the Year Lunch. [51] An atheist and humanist, Toksvig is a patron of Humanists UK. [52]

A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts . Retrieved 12 January 2020.

Maqbool, Aleem (8 February 2023). "Sandi Toksvig: I can't let the Church of England hurt LGBT people". BBC News. BBC . Retrieved 8 February 2023. And, according to legend, high-ranking war criminals such as Martin Bormann, Josef Mengele and even Hitler himself were said to have undergone secret surgery at the isolated villa after “faking” their deaths. Hitler’s Canary was the name the British gave Denmark for the way in which the Danes appeared to do nothing against the onslaught of Hitler, instead waiting as if they were sitting in a cage, like a canary and singing to his tune. Toksvig took over from Stephen Fry as host of the BBC television quiz show QI in 2016 (series 'N'), having been a guest a number of times and she spent ten years hosting The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4. From 2017 to 2020 she was co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off, alongside comedian Noel Fielding. In 2020, she stepped down and was replaced by Matt Lucas. [3] [4]