Is it Me?: Terry Wogan - An Autobiography (BBC Radio Collection)

Wogan OBE, Sir Terry

ISBN 10: 0563477296 ISBN 13: 9780563477297

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Terry Wogan is one of the best known broadcasters in Britain, with a hugely successful career in both radio and television. Here, he brings to the reader a wry take on everyday life, mixed with a self-deprecating humour, as he describes his whole life, both personal and professional.

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Review

From life with Ma and Da in County Limerick, with weekly packages of books, magazines and comics from his Auntie May filling his fertile brain with adventures and humour, Michael Terence Wogan reached the heights of broadcasting via the Royal Bank of Ireland and Radio Eirann and stayed there.

Displeasure in his working life seems minimal, though the BBC replacing him with the doomed early evening soap, Eldorado still chafes. Contented in family life with wife and three children, he speaks thoughtfully of its sad events: the death of his parents, and the loss of his firstborn.

On referring to the mystery that occasions success in show business he says, without rancour, "Nobody knows anything in our business which is what my friend Sir John Birt couldn't accept. An engineer by training he never grasped the essential imponderability of our game. He thought the inexactitude, unpredictability of public taste could be ironed out by reason, procedures, good management and focus groups--laudable but a waste of time."

Of his own competence he confesses, "I sit before the microphone every morning speechless, without an idea with which to bless myself". No such worries in this articulate, informative and most engaging reading. --Lyn Took

About the Author

Terry Wogan moved to light entertainment as a disc jockey and host of TV quiz and variety shows after working in banking. In 1969 Terry stood in for BBC Radio's Jimmy Young, and later that year was given his own daily shows on BBC Radio 1 and 2. In 1972 he took over the prestigious morning show slot. Terry's extensive television credits include his live chat show series "Blankety Blank," "Come Dancing," "The Eurovision Song Contest," "Songs for Europe," and "Wogan ," to name but a few. In 1993 Terry rejoined BBC Radio 2 to present "Wake up to Wogan," the most listened to breakfast show in the UK. Her Majesty the Queen honored him with a knighthood in 2005.

About this edition

• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0563477296
• ISBN 13: 9780563477297
• Binding: Audio Cassette