Cox is committed to protecting the environment. In 2009 she joined the 10:10 project in a bid to help her reduce her carbon footprint. She explained that, as she was brought up on a farm, she has no problem wearing extra layers instead of turning up the thermostat. Giving up meat was for her a different story, however, saying: "My dad is a beef farmer so he wouldn't be best pleased. I tried going veggie once, but it lasted about four hours." [41] I’ve now read quite a few of the books featured on Between The Covers. Most have them have been really good, but there are a few that have really stayed with me. Rate novels about family and friendship and get recommendations for your next great read. Help us complete the largest ever survey of English novels The first twenty years in the life of Boltonian radio/TV presenter and incipient national treasure Sara Cox. Rob says: I feel really privileged to be the person that gets to champion this book. It is set in the racially segregated south of America, and we see a trial, through the purity and complexity of a child's eye view, and the hero of the story, Atticus Finch.

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Sara Cox has used her experience presenting The Pottery Throw Down to produce this great book about a group of strangers brought together by a pottery class at their local community centre. I’m guessing this is the first of many autobiography’s as she’s obviously still young but there’s only so much about living on a farm I care to read about. A life, even early, as a model should have been touched on a lot more but the most disappointing aspect was the ending. Abrupt is the only adjective suitable. Griff says: “This is pure comfort and joy. I’ve read a lot of books about The Beatles but this is easily the most joyous read because it’s not just full of information about The Beatles … it also looks at the world around them.” Celebrity Wedding – Radio DJ Sara Cox Secretly Marries Boyfriend Ben Cyzer". andbag.com . Retrieved 24 June 2013.

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I enjoyed recognising the places she mentioned and laughed at her joke reference to Little Lever as a ‘charming little hamlet’ and of course ‘the village’. Cox was one of 52 celebrities contributing to a children's story entitled Once Upon a Time [49] to promote a new charity directory inquiries number 118 520. The book will be auctioned with the profits going to the NSPCC. Cox is also a named supporter of the animal charity PDSA, and has promoted the charity by being photographed [50] with her pet dog, Snoop, by the late Lord Lichfield. Thrown is the story of a group of strangers brought together by a beginners pottery class. They are a truly eclectic bunch and the story tells their own tale and then those where they become a group of friends and allies.

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Emma Cahusac, Commissioner for BBC Arts, says: “The first series of Between The Covers sparked a national conversation about books, so I’m delighted it’s returning with another fantastic line up. Continuing BBC Arts’ commitment to books programmes, the series features a broad selection of genres and styles, so there’s something for everyone to enjoy. I look forward to working my way through the reading list, and joining in the conversation on social media during each episode.” Cox commentated for the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest on BBC Three with fellow BBC Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills [23] at the 2011 Contest and 2012 Contest, and again in 2021 as a late stand-in for Rylan Clark. [24] Cox was replaced by Ana Matronic starting from the 2013 Contest. [25] On 29 October 2018, it was announced that Cox would succeed Simon Mayo as drivetime presenter on 14 January 2019. [18] Thrown' is billed as a 'laugh out loud' comedy, but I found the relationships between the women and their errant partners poignant - often tragic, and in one case disturbing.In each episode, Sara Cox and her guests review some of the most exciting new and recent book releases, as well as sharing their own reading secrets. I’ve seen other reviewers didn’t think Louise’s story was necessary but I disagree. One of the most poignant moments of the novel happens in her story arc. Cox was born Sarah Joanne Cox on 13 December 1974, but later dropped the use of the letter 'h' from her first name. [2] Her parents lived in the village of Little Lever near Bolton, Greater Manchester, where she grew up on her father's farm. [3] She was the youngest of five children. Her parents separated when she was six or seven, after which she moved with her mother and a sister to another house in the same village. [4] Cox attended Smithills High School until the age of 16, and left Canon Slade School after her A-levels to pursue a career in modelling. She appeared in the music video for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1993 single " Everyday", [5] and on a controversial promotional poster for the 1995 video game Wipeout. [6] Cox has also been an ambassador for Centrepoint—the UK's charity for homeless young people—since 2000, making her its longest serving celebrity supporter. [51] She takes part in the charity's flagship fundraising event, Sleep Out, every year, sleeping outside in a London location with around 800 other fundraisers. She also gives her time to Centrepoint for other events, messages of support and fundraising promotions. [ citation needed] She’s very much a mashup of Bette Midler and Betty from Coronation Street but my mum is convinced that Sheila is basically her.

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Sara Cox The first series of Between The Covers sparked a national conversation about books, so I’m delighted it’s returning with another fantastic line up. Continuing BBC Arts’ commitment to books programmes, the series features a broad selection of genres and styles, so there’s something for everyone to enjoy." — Emma Cahusac, Commissioner, BBC Arts Radio 2 DJ Sara Cox has come a long way since the 1990s when Channel 4’s The Girlie Show made her one of the original ladettes. In 2019, her memoir Till the Cows Come Home: A Lancashire Childhood became a critical and commercial success; now comes a debut novel, Thrown. Tapping knowledge gleaned while presenting The Great Pottery Throw Down and grappling with themes from loneliness to infertility, it’s a funny, touching story of four very different women who meet at a ceramics class on a housing estate near Manchester.

There's this fantastic moment where Mailer discovers that, at the hotel he's staying in, the balconies don't have rails. So in the middle of the night he decides he's going to climb onto this narrow balcony and walk out across this narrow ledge - go out through one window and come in through the other one. It's all about how we need to go to go right to the edge to feel truly alive, and it's so brilliantly written. Sara Cox and Scott Mills front Eurovision semi-finals exclusively on BBC Three". BBC Press Office. 21 April 2011 . Retrieved 10 May 2011. I listen to more audiobooks. I’m not really good with my own thoughts in a quiet room – I don’t know if it’s something I should be worried about. When I’m doing mundane things, I just want a little chat going on in my ear. Likable, largely middle-class men in their 50s are my thing at the moment. I’ve got Louis Theroux, Adam Buxton, David Mitchell and not remotely middle-class Bob Mortimer, whose And Away autobiography is great. In March 2010, Cox went on maternity leave for the third time, leaving her show in the hands of the newest Radio 1 presenter, Matt Edmondson. [11] She returned to the station on 9 August 2010 to cover for Fearne Cotton for three weeks. Cox made a self-confessed unexpected return to the breakfast show on 2 and 3 September 2010, as she sat in for the unwell Chris Moyles. [12] In March 2019 her book Till the Cows Come Home: A Lancashire Childhood, a memoir of growing up in 1980s Lancashire, was published by Coronet Books. [34]

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Sara Cox is Bolton born and bred and this is the story of her childhood with the book ending before she became the celebrity she is today. The characters were so fully formed and vividly described that they all came to life instantly for me and I felt completely invested in each of their stories. The pottery aspect was a very clever devise (and clearly the author has used her experience on the great pottery throw down to full advantage) and wove there stories all together seamlessly. I wish I was part of their class! Get this: my cleaner has organised them by colour. It’s not great and I’m too polite to say anything. I don’t know why I’m whispering – I don’t think she reads the Observer. On 21 October 2014, Cox guest presented a Children in Need episode of The Great British Sewing Bee. [26] Bittersweet tales of heartache and healing recommended by Peter Davison, Sarah Hadland, Cariad Lloyd and Sir Trevor McDonald

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So I love this book a lot. I read it by chance. It's nonfiction, but it has a real fiction-y feel. I think, for me, the big thing about this book was, it's the transformation of a woman... for herself, and then later for her children. And as a mother, I feel like so much of what I try to be is a good example to my kid, or I don't want to lose my temper in front of my kid, at a micro level. James Gill (10 August 2012). "Sara Cox to cover Fearne Cotton Radio 1 maternity leave". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 1 January 2013 . Retrieved 6 September 2012. I did figure out one character’s secret out straight away but it didn’t take away from my enjoyment of the novel and made me feel quite smug! Vaguely knew she had something to do with a farm, obviously she's from Lancashire. She's the decade before me as she's a 70s baby, so her childhood and especially her teenager hood seems very grown up to me, ha ha, as I was still very wee when she was off clubbing in Manchester to the Happy Mondays. Oh, and I can empathise with her head problem. At its core it is a book about justice, how we reach for justice, and, of course, what it means that children have an innate sense of what that justice is. They're born with it, and this describes that so beautifully and magically.