Sandi Toksvig

That's terrible.

It's terrible.

If my children did this, I'd have to sit them down and say, well, I'm very disappointed, which is my go-to word with my children.

So I'm not proud of it, Richard.

I'm not proud.

It's not good.

Well, fortunately, my parents had a very lackadaisical, mildly indolent attitude to parenting.

So mostly they didn't go or ask me what I'd been up to.

On one occasion, for reasons I can't recall, maybe there were free drinks.

I don't know what happened.

They went to a parent-teacher association meeting.

Couldn't find a teacher who knew me.

So...

The game was up.

Apparently it was not enough to just turn up every day and hang out at the local theatre.

And so slightly despairing, because I was 14 by then, they sent me inexplicably to boarding school in England.

My mother's from England.

My grandparents were still alive then, living in England.

And I think my English grandmother had a say in this because I went to the school that her best friend's kids had gone to.

I say school.