Between the Stops

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Sandi Toksvig, writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years, presenter of QI and The Great British Bake Off star could, of course, only write an autobiography with a difference.` It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right). It's not a sensible way to write a memoir at all, probably, but things pop into your head as you travel, so it's my way'.From London facts including where to find the blue plaque for Una Marson, 'The first black woman programme maker at the BBC' to a brief history of lady gangsters at Elephant and Castle, from memories performing in Footlights with Emma Thompson, this book is full of surprises. Painful recollections of boarding school sit alongside anecdotes about The Graham Norton Show and tales of Bake Off antics. And there is much on family and friends including stories of a lasting kinship with John McCarthy and the daunting navigation of the Zambezi River in her father's canoe.Says Sandi `It's not as if all my life flashed before me, but much has resurfaced: the solace of books, the love of my dear departed father, the drama and relief of coming out, finding love, my passion for theatre, my drive for justice, an understanding of a kind of loneliness that will forever haunt me, and how I ended up at sixty years old riding a double-decker bus.' Between the Stops is also an inspiration: 'some of the greatest trips lie on our own doorstep'.