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Terry Wogan

October 2022

  • ‘I know nothing’ … Fawlty Towers.

    100 years of the BBC: decade by decade
    Mastermind’s Gestapo origins, immortal sitcoms and the birth of reality TV: 100 years of the BBC, part six

    From ‘Basil!’ to ‘lovely jubbly’, welcome to the age of the classic sitcom – and the dawn of a new genre where nothing was off the table apart from ‘making love and going to the lavatory’

September 2019

  • From left: Michael Jackson and Britney, Warren Beatty, John Travolta, and Adele

    ‘Adele Dazeem’ and the 2017 Oscars: five ultimate awards show blunders

    Here are some of the best-worst moments involving opening envelopes

May 2018

  • Rude health … Carry on Doctor with Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Williams.

    Get your hands off my double entendres! Is the smutty pun now under attack?

    It is Britain’s favourite type of humour, the go-to gag for everyone from Carry On stars to Bake Off hosts. But are fnarr fnarr jokes just another example of male sexual entitlement?

September 2017

  • Terry Wogan At Radio 2 in 1976.

    Wogan compares BBC to the British empire in unearthed interview

    In recordings released to celebrate 50th anniversary of Radio 1, 2, 3 and 4, Wogan says BBC never quite captured spirit of pirate radio
  • Terry Wogan

    Terry Wogan voted greatest BBC radio presenter

    John Peel and Sue MacGregor second and third in Radio Times poll of leading figures in broadcasting
  • Gameshot host and assistant

    From Jim Davidson to Brucie: gameshow hosts rated and slated

    As Len Goodman and Noel Edmonds are currently proving with Partners in Rhyme and Cheap Cheap Cheap, it’s exceptionally hard to be a good gameshow host. Here are some of the best – and worst – quizmasters

January 2017

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    Desert Island Discs: 75 defining moments from 75 years of castaways

    The show’s first guest was marooned three quarters of a century ago this month. Here are the moments that made Desert Island Discs a radio classic

December 2016

  • Oludolapo Osinbajo, the wife of the vice-president of Nigeria, hugs one of 21 Chibok girls released by Boko Haram.

    It wasn't all bad: good news in 2016
    2016's best bits: October to December

  • terry wogan at home in 2014

    The Observer's obituaries of 2016
    Terry Wogan remembered by Simon Mayo

November 2016

  • Ricky Gervais sings as David Brent for Children in Need.

    BBC Children in Need raises a record £46.6m

    Telethon features Ricky Gervais, Eddie Redmayne, a Great British Bake Off sketch and tributes to Terry Wogan

September 2016

  • Veteran broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan died of cancer aged 77 in January.

    Stars pay tribute to Terry Wogan at Westminster Abbey thanksgiving

    Service features performances from Katie Melua and Peter Gabriel, and tributes from BBC chief Tony Hall and DJ Chris Evans

August 2016

  • Blankety Blank Christmas special

    TV and radio blog
    Blankety Blank is back – let's hope it doesn't get the Keith Lemon treatment

    The gameshow is returning to ITV. Again. But will anyone manage to match the effortless elegance of Terry Wogan as its new host?

May 2016

  • Terry Wogan

    Terry Wogan service of thanksgiving 50 years after his radio debut

    BBC to mark golden anniversary of 27 September 1966 – day broadcaster began his career on Light Programme

April 2016

  • Prince, Alan Rickman and David Bowie composite

    Prince, Rickman, Bowie... famous faces we have said goodbye to in 2016

  • Sir Terry Wogan

    Terry Wogan 'totally spoiled' Eurovision, says contest producer

February 2016

  • Tim Peake takes a selfie in space.

    Reports of my death
    Clive James: ‘My granddaughter’s school was connected by video to the International Space Station'

    Now when she and I ask each other questions, both of us pause before answering. It’s a space conversation
  • Terry Wogan, who wrote to David Attenborough in 1965 asking for a job.

    Terry Wogan turned down for BBC2 job in 1965 by David Attenborough

    Attenborough, who was then controller of the channel, responded to Wogan’s application explaining the station already had an Irish presenter

    • The week in radio: Desert Island Discs; The Compass; Chris Evans; The Archers

    • A neuroscientist explains
      Pillow talk: waking up with Wogan

    • It’s Wogan v Bowie in the battle of the obits now – but death wasn’t always such big news

      Ian Jack
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