Sandi Toksvig

I want you to hear you say the name of the person and then ask them for the glass of water.

And he was right.

treat service people watch how a politician treats a waiter a taxi driver a cleaner a flight attendant that'll tell you so much about who they are and their personality this is the same thing isn't it yeah it's exactly the same thing and when my father passed which was you know horrendous uh time in my life at his funeral our local postman and the prime minister sat next to each other in the front row of the church and i thought yeah that's that's he got that right your mom was british how did she meet your dad

So when Danish radio, as we still call it, we still call Danish television, Danish radio.

When Danish radio started, so it was their equivalent of the BBC, in order to do the trainings that hadn't happened before, they sent my dad as one of the first trainees to the BBC.

And my mom, who doesn't ever get as much credit as my dad, and she should...

She was one of the first female studio managers at the BBC.

It was unheard of to have a woman in – imagine a woman putting the news on.

Extraordinary idea.

And so she literally met him through the glass.

People who are not familiar with radio studios won't know that the sort of controls are on the other side of a large piece of glass to the person who's broadcasting.

And she put him on air.

So they –

I don't know if the glass steamed up.

I don't like to think about it too much, Richard.

It's my parents.

Do you know what I'm saying?

They liked each other.

Yes, absolutely.

I had a great aunt who was a milkmaid all her life.