Sandi Toksvig

And we drove down.

There's a place called – there's a road called the Beeline Highway.

And it was just exciting.

I thought, ooh, going to Florida, how marvelous.

And then there was less –

Anxiety about childcare.

Can I just say these days, I think there was a lot less anxiety.

So my mum went off to help dad because there were these huge booths set up for all the foreign journalists.

So Apollo 11, of course, anybody who doesn't recall the very first manned mission to the moon.

So my brother and I were sort of abandoned at a beach, which was all the families of the correspondents.

And we were as close as you were allowed to be to the rock.

It was a mile and a half.

But you could see it really clearly across the flat waters.

And there was the countdown.

They had a big tannoy system set up.

So you heard the countdown, T minus 10.

And there was all the stuff going on and people were very excited.

And when it took off, the ground shook.

I have such a strong recollection of it.

And then we transferred.