Sandi Toksvig: Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought? — FLAPSS

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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?

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Sandi Toksvig

Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer

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My five-litre Ford Mustang.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

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Courteney Cox American actress and producer

A Banksy painting.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2019 source ↗

Philippa Gregory

I take my family on holiday. We went to Egypt just after Christmas. Golly, it’s expensive.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗

Julian Lennon English musician, photographer, and philanthropist

I bought a sports car over 20 years ago and still have it. She’s a black Z8 BMW. I love her: she’s my pride and joy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2022 source ↗

Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

Art. We have some Picassos and Diego Riveras.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

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Question What most recently moved you to tears? Identity & self

When I read the story of a blind, bisexual goose called Thomas who had died in New Zealand after a lifetime of love for a swan called Henry. It sounds ridiculous but is entirely true.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

As having done my best.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? Failure & regret

Any fashion designer whose clothes on me must have made them weep.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question What is the worst job you have ever had? Craft & work

Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question How would you describe what love feels like to you? Relationships

Like driving a Ford Mustang with the top down across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun is setting and you have a dinner reservation in Sausalito.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change? Failure & regret

I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

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