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Sara Patricia Pascoe (born 22 May 1981) is an English actress, comedian, presenter and writer. She has appeared on television programmes including 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Taskmaster for Channel 4 and QI for BBC Two. Early life Pascoe was born to Gail (née Newmarch) and Derek Pascoe, a musician. Her great-grandmother was Rosa Newmarch, a poet and writer on music. Born in Dagenham, Greater London, Pascoe grew up in nearby Romford. Her parents divorced when she was young and she was raised by her mother. She attended Eastbury Comprehensive School in Barking. She later attended Gaynes School in Upminster. When she was 16 she became pregnant, and had an abortion on her 17th birthday, an experience detailed in her memoir, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body. For a short while, Pascoe aspired to study philosophy at the University of Cambridge, motivated by both her enjoyment of the novel Sophie's World and her desire to join Footlights, the university's dramatic club. However, she read English at the University of Sussex, where she met and became friends with Cariad Lloyd. After graduation she worked as an actor and supplemented her income with temporary work, but found work "hard to come by" and declared herself bankrupt. Career Before her comedy career, Pascoe was a tour guide in London. Pascoe has appeared in many television programmes and panel shows, including Stand Up for the Week, The Thick of It, Mock the Week, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Campus, Being Human, Twenty Twelve, QI, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie to You, Hypothetical, and W1A as well as all-female sketch show Girl Friday (part of Channel 4's Comedy Showcase), which she co-wrote. Pascoe began performing stand up comedy in 2007. In the following year she was a runner-up in the Funny Women award in 2008 with Rachel Stubbings. Katherine Ryan won the award that year. In August 2010, she performed her first show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sara Pascoe Vs Her Ego. In 2012, she appeared in episode 11 of the Comedian's Comedian Podcast hosted by Stuart Goldsmith, and in Live at the Apollo. She appeared on the BBC TV panel show QI in 2013. In 2014, she performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and toured the UK for the first time with the show Sara Pascoe Vs History. The show was nominated for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award 2014 for Best Comedy Show. In October 2014, she appeared in Never Mind the Buzzcocks and stood in line at the identity parade round as a former dancer and back-up singer for the entertainer (and Robbie Williams's father) Pete Conway. Also that month, she appeared on the topical panel quiz Have I Got News for You as a panellist and in one of the sketches of the Channel 4 charity night Stand Up to Cancer. In 2015, she appeared as a panellist on two Radio 4 programmes, the science discussion programme The Infinite Monkey Cage in February, and the comedy quiz programme The Unbelievable Truth in September. In 2016, along with numerous other celebrities, Pascoe toured the UK to support Jeremy Corbyn's bid to become prime minister. She has written two books. The first, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, was published in 2016. Her second book, Sex Power Money, was published in 2019, which explores (mostly heterosexual) sexual relations, with particular focuses on male sexuality and on sex work. It is informed by evolutionary biology and social research, and by her own experiences and feelings. She also hosts a related podcast of the same name, in which she interviews people who have experience around sex work, stripping and porn. In 2016, she went on tour again with the show Animal. She participated in series 3 of the comedy challenge show, Taskmaster, which was broadcast on Dave in October and November 2016. She has appeared in all three of Frankie Boyle's Autopsy BBC programmes (2014–2016), discussing political issues, and from 2017 until 2020 has been a regular guest on his topical series Frankie Boyle's New World Order. She also performed a half-hour stand-up set in episode 1 of series 2 of Live from the BBC in 2017. On 27 October 2017, she appeared in an episode of the British travel documentary series Travel Man on Channel 4. In February 2018, she started a BBC Radio 4 series called Modern Monkey. In April 2018, she appeared as a panellist in two episodes of the BBC Radio 4 panel show Just A Minute. In May 2018, she starred in a BBC comedy short entitled "Sara Pascoe vs Monogamy". In 2019 she was announced as the host of Dave series Comedians Giving Lectures, in which comedians deliver a stand-up presentation in the guise of a lecture. In February 2020, Dave announced that they were commissioning two further series, with series 2 scheduled to be filmed and broadcast in 2020 and series 3 in 2021. However, the Covid-19 pandemic caused the project to be delayed, and both series were filmed at the National Gallery in London in summer 2021. Series 2 was broadcast in November 2021 and Series 3 in April 2022. In March 2019, she appeared in Travelling Blind with Amar Latif on BBC2. In April 2019, a live recording of Pascoe's LadsLadsLads tour at the London Palladium was shown on BBC Two. In November 2020 she hosted An Evening With Yuval Noah Harari, a livestream book launch held by How to Academy and Penguin Books. Pascoe's six-part comedy series Out of Her Mind premiered on BBC Two in October 2020. Exploring "heartbreak, family and how to survive them", the series is loosely based on her own life, with Pascoe playing a version of herself. Co-stars include Juliet Stevenson and Cariad Lloyd. Pascoe's three-part BBC Two series called Last Woman on Earth with Sara Pascoe premiered on 27 December 2020. In May 2022, the series was recommissioned for a second series, which premiered on 9 April 2023. She is the host of a panel show Guessable broadcast on Comedy Central UK from October 2020. On 16 September 2021, it was announced that Pascoe would host the eighth series of The Great British Sewing Bee, replacing Joe Lycett. Other television appearances In 2017, Pascoe was one of four contestants on series 7, episode 8 of The Celebrity Chase, progressing to the episode's Final Chase. Pascoe was one of the four competitors on a Christmas edition of The Great British Sewing Bee broadcast on Boxing Day 2020 on BBC 1. Her fellow competitors were Denise Van Outen, Shirley Ballas and Ranj Singh. Personal life Pascoe lives in Crouch End, north London. From 2013 to late 2016, she dated the comedian John Robins. Her reflections on that relationship and its aftermath were the basis of her 2017 show LadsLadsLads at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2020, she married fellow comedian Steen Raskopoulos. In November 2021, she announced that she was pregnant. In February 2022, Pascoe gave birth to her first child, announcing it on Valentine's Day. In May 2023, she announced that she was expecting her second child, via IVF. She is vegan. Biblio.... Discover the Sara Read popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Sara Read books.
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Younger
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DECEIVED
Sara CravenThe prodigal lover…Lydie had grown up too close to Marius Benedict to remain immune to her stepcousin's fatal charm. But Marius had merely seduced and abandoned her, leaving town u...
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Softly and Tenderly
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Skipping a Beat
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Radar Girls
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Jesus Calling for Graduates, with Scripture References
Sarah YoungLearn what Jesus has to say to you during this major life transition. During times of transition and unknown next steps, it is more important than ever to cling to the promises of ...
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One Night with His Virgin Mistress
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Escape to the French Farmhouse
Jo Thomas'You smell the lavender, you feel the sun on your face, this book is pure joy!' Katie Fforde'Uplifting and full of warmth, this novel is the next best thing to jetting off to Franc...
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The Last Time I Died
Joe Nelms“One of the most compelling novels in recent memory” (Booklist) by a bright light in irreverent and compelling fiction: Joe Nelms, author of Formerly Fingerman. Christian Franco is...
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Book of Colours
Robyn CadwalladerFrom Robyn Cadwallader, author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Anchoress, comes a deeply profound and moving novel of the importance of creativity and the power of conne...
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The Santangeli Marriage
Sara CravenOrphan Marisa was raised by the wealthy Santangeli family. Their only demand was that she marry their son….Italian billionaire and renowned playboy Lorenzo Santangeli is expecting ...
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Montana Mistress
Sara OrwigStruggling hotel owner Laurel Tolson had had enough of wealthy, arrogant men who thought their money could buy anything and anyone. But then tycoon Chase Bennett swept into her lit...
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The Marriage Game
Sara Desai“This novel has all the funny banter and sexy feels you could want in a romantic comedy.”–NPRA high stakes wager pits an aspiring entrepreneur against a ruthless CEO in this sexy r...
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Circus of Wonders
Elizabeth MacnealFrom the #1 internationally bestselling author of the “lush, evocative Gothic” (The New York Times Book Review) The Doll Factory comes an atmospheric and spectacular novel about a ...
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The Summer That Changed Us
Cathy BramleyThe joyful and escapist Sunday Times bestseller about three women searching for friendship in a beautiful seaside town 'An emotional tale of friendship. This is Cathy at her very ...
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Love Lifted Me
Sara Evans“Touching and emotive . . . sizzles with passion . . . a beautiful story of hope tackling betrayal and love manning up to win the game.” USAToday.comThe third and final book in the...
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Death in Vineyard Waters
Philip CraigMartha’s Vineyard Mysteries now a movie series on Hallmark Channel starring Jesse Metcalfe!J.W. Jackson returns in another unputdownable mystery as he searches for answers on a bel...
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The Year We Fell Apart
Emily MartinIn the tradition of Sarah Dessen, this powerful debut novel is a compelling portrait of a young girl coping with her mother’s cancer as she figures out how to learn fromand fixher ...
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The Opposite of Me
Sarah PekkanenA "fresh, funny, and satisfying" (New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner) about the complicated bonds of sisterhood.Twentynineyearold Lindsey Rose has, for as long as sh...
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Bride of Desire
Sara CravenTwo years ago, Allie fled an unhappy marriage for France, where she met irresistible Remy de Brizat. But they were driven apart when he discovered her secret. Allie was distraught...
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Stirring Attraction
Sara Jane StoneA sexy, suspenseful standalone in the Second Shot Series . . .When Dominic Fairmore left Oregon to be all he could be as an Army Ranger, he always knew he’d come back to claim Lily...
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The Runaway Bride
Felicity YorkOnly the boldest of ladies risks her heart and her reputation . . .THE FIRST BOOK IN THE STATELY SCANDALS SERIES1826. At first sight, Ellen Turner does not seem the type to elope w...
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Forced to Marry Bundle
Sara Craven, Daphne Clair, Christina Hollis & Margaret MayoThey've been forced to the altar...but go willingly to the bedroom! Discover four seductive and dramatic stories of marriage of convenience, revenge, blackmail and ultimately love ...
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A Texan in Her Bed
Sara OrwigUSA TODAY bestselling author Sara Orwig returns to Verity, Texas… All Wyatt Milan wants is a quiet life. That's why the billionaire rancher became sheriff of the sleepy town o...
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Innocent on Her Wedding Night
Sara CravenLaine waited for her handsome new husband, Daniel Flynn, to come to her on their wedding night…knowing that their marriage was a sham. Daniel didn't love herhe was just fulfilling ...
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Pregnant by the Playboy Tycoon
Anne OliverThere's always been a simmering sexual tension between Annie Duffield and gorgeous businessman Steve Anderson. Until now Annie has always kept her frosty barriers firmly in place, ...
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The House Between Tides
Sarah MaineAn atmospheric debut novel about a woman who discovers the centuryold remains of a murder victim on her family’s Scottish estate, plunging her into an investigation of its mysterio...
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Other Birds
Sarah Addison AllenThe New York Times BestsellerFrom the acclaimed author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale of lost souls, lonely strangers, secrets that shape us, and how the right flock can...
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The Perfect Neighbors
Sarah PekkanenThe New York Times bestselling coauthor of the “creepycrawly tale” (The New York Times Book Review) An Anonymous Girl and The Wife Between Us questions just how well we really know...
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Sara va alla scuola materna
Pauline OudSara e la sua mamma arrivano alla scuola materna. ‘Ciao, mamma!’ saluta Sara, correndo subito via. Sara, infatti, ha visto i suoi amici Lisa e Giulio. E un bambino che non conosce ...
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Marriage at a Distance
Sara CravenJoanna had been an inexperienced 18yearold when she'd married Gabriel Verne. She'd loved her new husband but had been devastated to discover that he'd simply married her out of dut...
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What Fresh Hell
Lucy Vine'Totally relatable and hilarious one of the best books I've read' Heat'Laughoutloud funny. Truly, the Bridget Jones for our generation' Louise O'NeillWhat do you get if you cros...
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Smokescreen Marriage
Sara CravenKate's marriage to Michalis Theodakis is in the pastin all but name. She knows he married her only to cover up his affair with his mistress, so how dare he expect her to play the d...
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A Beautiful Place to Die
Philip CraigMartha’s Vineyard Mysteries now a movie series on Hallmark Channel starring Jesse Metcalfe!Excop J.W. Jackson searches for answers after a mysterious and deadly boat explosion on M...
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Sara Big Hair
Annie Brown & Fern BrownSara is excited. The Queen is coming to town. When Sara stands at the back of the crowd all she sees is the Queen’s great big gold crown. And Sara wants one! Sara decides to make h...
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The Sweet By and By
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Vineyard Deceit
Philip CraigIn this addition to the Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series, an ill tide carries desperate men with murder on their minds to the idyllic island, suddenly threatening everything J.W. l...
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Jesus Calling Magazine Issue 9
Sarah YoungFor the first time ever, The Jesus Calling Magazine features Jesus Calling's New York Times bestselling author Sarah Young with an exclusive interview about her life, her writings,...