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Between the Stops
- The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Between the Stops
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Publisher's Summary
This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly 40 years, presenter of QI and Great British Bake Off star - is an autobiography with a difference: as only Sandi Toksvig can tell it.
'Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. 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), a double-decker that plies its way from Dulwich, in South East London, where I was living, to where I sometimes work - at the BBC, in the heart of the capital. It's not a sensible way to write a memoir at all, probably, but it's the way 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 discovering the best Spanish coffee under Southwark's railway arches; from a brief history of lady gangsters at Elephant and Castle to memories of climbing Mount Sinai and, at the request of a fellow traveller, reading aloud the Ten Commandments; from the story behind Pissarro's painting of Dulwich Station to performing in Footlights with Emma Thompson; from painful memoires of being sent to Coventry while at a British boarding school to thinking about how Wombells Travelling Circus of 1864 haunts Peckham Rye; from anecdotes about meeting Prince Charles, Monica Lewinsky and Grayson Perry to Bake-Off antics; from stories of a real and lasting friendship with John McCarthy to the importance of family and the daunting navigation of the Zambezi River in her father's canoe, this Sandi Toksvig-style memoir is, as one would expect and hope, packed full of surprises.
A funny and moving trip through memories, musings and the many delights on the Number 12 route, Between the Stops is also an inspiration to us all to get off our phones, look up and to talk to each other because, as Sandi says, 'Some of the greatest trips lie on our own doorstep'.
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- Janet
- 29-01-2021
Amazing
What a powerful book that is written from the heart. Not just a memoir but a wonderful history of London. It had me laughing out loud and at other times I felt so sad. I did not realise how talented Sandi is and how many strings she has to her bow. I would love to meet her, shake her by the hand and say Thank You from women everywhere.
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- M Cailes
- 07-03-2022
I just don’t want it to end
Simply love her stories. I have not been able to stop listening and don’t want it to end.
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- lindsay holliday
- 19-01-2023
Wonderful
I like Sandy even more than before reading her travels on the London Bus….I’m going to enjoy my next visit taking the same route as a new way to explore London! Told with such easy humour and Joie de vie…thank god the Danish shared her with the English.
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- Fiona Jane Harris
- 02-03-2023
Why Sandi is a national treasure!
A fabulous memoir as we journey on the bus and through Sandi’s memories and her wonderfully inquisitive mind. She made me laugh, think and broaden my mind, and laugh again
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- Alison Lewis
- 03-07-2023
Brilliant
Loved this so much had to listen 3 times to make sure I didn't miss any info. I identified with aspects of her journey tho I am not gay. This journey transends that and is anyones. great reading and loved listening.
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- Nicnox
- 19-03-2024
Informative
Living in Oz I miss British streets and could imagine the London rain and misty windows…very nostalgic.
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- Mike In Melbourne
- 14-12-2023
An Enjoyable Ride Along With Sandi
This is the first time listening to a Sandi book, having been a big fan of her from Q.I. Listening to Sandi regale her story while driving hundreds of kilometres by myself I was frequently laughing out loud. Listening to this Dane, come New Yorker, come Brit has been a wonderful listen that will be enjoyed by anyone who enjoys her other work.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-12-2023
Wonderful
One of the most enchanting, powerful, loving and interesting memoirs I have ever encountered… the world is a better place for Sandi Toksvig
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-09-2021
A joy
This is a joy to listen to. Thoroughly recommend to all those with a penchant for history and a funny anecdote. Marvellously told.
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- Linda Forbes
- 15-04-2021
A great and varied story of Sandi’s life and London’s history
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Sandi is full of interesting facts about London and its occupants, and makes the book even better by interspersing them with snippets of her own equally illustrious history. In addition she has a lovely voice!
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