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4. Victoria Coren-Mitchell interviews Sandi Toksvig

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Writer and presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell talks to comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig in the talk tag show. From 2016.

Writer and presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell asks the questions to comedian and writer, Sandi Toksvig about her long career in broadcasting, her foray into politics and gets some advice on how to behave when you're staying at the Icelandic Prime Minister's house.

Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show where this week's interviewee becomes next week's interviewer.

Victoria Coren-Mitchell is a columnist for The Observer and GQ amongst other publications and has presented myriad documentaries on subjects as varied as The Bohemians and Mary Poppins. As well as a prolific writing career, she keeps order on the popular and fiendishly difficult television quiz, 'Only Connect'. She is also well-known as one of the world's top professional poker players and has achieved huge success at the card table.

Sandi Toksvig is a prolific writer and broadcaster who chaired the News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 for nine years and over 220 episodes. In 2015 she was a founder member of the Women's Equality Party and was named new host of the long-running BBC TV series, QI.

Producer: Richard Morris

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in March 2016.

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  • Wed 16 Mar 2016 18:30
  • Wed 23 Mar 2016 07:30
  • Wed 23 Mar 2016 17:30
  • Wed 23 Mar 2016 22:00
  • Thu 24 Mar 2016 05:30
  • Wed 24 Jan 2018 11:30
  • Sat 7 Mar 2020 22:30
  • Sat 30 Oct 2021 22:30

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