Sandi Toksvig

We didn't know anybody else.

It was a secret.

We couldn't tell our friends.

We couldn't tell the family.

So that moment when you fall in love, which should be so thrilling and exciting, you know, I was 19.

was marred by the secrecy.

I'm so proud of young people now being who they want to be.

I'm so proud of the new language.

I'm so proud of what they're all doing.

Because to go back to those horrible, dark, shadowed days would be horrific and is positively dangerous for people's mental health.

Well, it's so ridiculous because the college I was at, Girton College, was founded as far as I can work out by a lesbian couple, but everybody seemed to have forgotten that.

But anyway, so she came up to see me.

She had graduated, but when I was very ill, she came up one weekend to look after me.

I was really still very weak and very unwell.

And she came up to look after me and they found out and decided that they would discuss at board level whether I should be, what Cambridge called, be sent down, be thrown out.

Even though there were girls up and down the corridor who had boys living full time, but that was fine.

We were fine with that.

And she'd only come up for the weekend to check on me.

Anyway, after three weeks discussion, I don't know, I can't imagine what the discussion was like.

They decided I could stay because of my excellent academic record.