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CAREER She began her comedy career at Cambridge where she wrote and performed in the first all-woman show at the Cambridge Footlights . She was also a member of Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society , and moved via children's television onto the comedy circuit. She performed at the first night of The Comedy Store in London and was once part of The Comedy Store Players , an improvisational comedy team. Her television career has included presenting the children's series '' Number 73 (television) '', '' Saturday Starship '', '' Get Fresh '', '' Motormouth '' and ''Gilbert's Fridge'', and on factual programmes such as ''Island Race''. She has appeared as a panellist in shows such as '' Call My Bluff '', '' Whose Line Is It Anyway? '', '' Mock The Week '' and '' Have I Got News For You ''. She is a current voice on BBC Radio 4 , as a frequent guest on shows such as '' I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue '', '' The News Quiz '' and the comedy '' Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off ''. She is the main presenter of the flagship travel programme ''Excess Baggage''. For three years until December 2005 she presented a weekday lunchtime programme on London talk radio station LBC 97.3 , featuring regular guests including Bonnie Langford , Alkarim Jivani , and Annie Caulfield . She will be replacing Simon Hoggart as chair of Radio 4's '' The News Quiz '' when the next series starts in September 2006. She has written several fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults, starting in 1994 with ''Tales from the Norse's mouth'', a fiction tale for children. In 1995, she sailed around the coast of Britain with John McCarthy . In 2003, she published her travel biography,''Gladys Reunited: A Personal American Journey'', about her travels in the USA retracing her childhood. She writes regular columns for Good Housekeeping and the Sunday Telegraph . In February 2006 she joked that, as a result of being Danish and having studied Muslim law, in the light of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad Cartoons Controversy , she had never been so sought after. POLITICS She supports the Liberal Democrats and has appeared on the BBC 's '' Question Time ''. In 2003 she stood as a candidate in the election for the Chancellor of the University Of Oxford , supporting a campaign against student fees. PERSONAL LIFE Her father was a foreign correspondent for a Danish television channel, so she spent most of her youth abroad. She studied law and anthropology at Girton College , Cambridge . She and her ex-partner Peta are mothers to three children, conceived through artificial insemination by donor: two daughters (born 1989 and 1991) and a son (born 1995). In 1994, Save The Children dropped her services after she came out; protests by the Lesbian Avengers led to the charity taking her back again. Sandi Toksvig also had a relationship with Radio 4 newsreader and announcer Alice Arnold . BIBLIOGRAPHY Books for children
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