Sandi Toksvig also appears at 15:30 for Hitler's Canary (Hilter's Kanarie)

Born in Copenhagen and educated in Cambridge, where she embarked on her career in comedy, Sandi Toksvig was one of the original 'Comedy Store Players' in London. She has appeared as a panellist on UK shows such as Call My Bluff, Whose Line Is It Anyways?, Mock The Week and Have I Got News For You, and is currently presenter of BBC Radio 4 travel programme Excess Baggage She regularly writes columns for Good Housekeeping and The Sunday Telegraph and is author of several fiction and non-fiction books for both children and adults. Toksvig will present her latest rip-roaringly funny read, Melted into Air.

Melted into Air
Frances Angel, drunk and disgruntled, arrives in Italy to attend the I Zingari Art School, leaving behind her dazzling career as a successful theatrical impresario and returning to a distant and painful past. She falls in with an eclectic group of performance artists, ex soldiers and a housewife who really just wants to paint something to match her settee. In the village a scale replica of the La Scala opera house becomes the setting for the great drama of Frances's past to be played out on the world's smallest stage. Frances expected to find some answers but what she didn't expect was romance and quite so much farce...

Language: English

Further information:

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage/