Terry Wogan



Profile:
Full name: Michael Terence Wogan (Sir)

Area of interest: Contemporary life, culture and issues

Journals/Organisation: The Sunday Telegraph

Email: Contact Wogan (BBC)

Personal website: http://www.terrywogan.com

Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/terrywogan | Radio2 Wogan

Blog: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/terry-wogan

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Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/terry_wogan



Biography:
About:

Education: The Jesuit school of Crescent College, Limerick, Éire; Belvedere College, Dublin, Éire

Career: Radio; TV (Widipedia); Screenonline profile (BFI) Current position/role: Columnist


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Other roles/Main role: Radio and TV broadcaster

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Viewpoints/Insight: Top of the morning, Terry, The Daily Telegraph, 2006; Personal life (Wikipedia)

Broadcast media:

Video: IMDb

Controversy/Criticism: The lunatics have taken over the corporation, says Wogan in attack on BBC

Awards/Honours: Wikipedia reference

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Books & Debate:

 * Is It Me? (BBC Books, 2000) OCLC 44397565
 * Mustn't grumble: the autobiography (London: Orion Books, 2006) OCLC 71890030

Latest work: Wogan's Year (London: Orion, 2007) OCLC 153557050

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The Sunday Telegaph:
Column name:

Remit/Info: Contemporary life, culture and issues with a satirical slant

Section: Features / Comment

Role: Columnist

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Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/terrywogan

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Sunday

Regularity: Weekly

Column format:

Average length: 350/400 words



Articles:

 * Wimbledon watchers who whinge about Sharapova should get a grip - The days of 'Bunny’ Austin and Suzanne Lenglen are long gone - 29th June 2014
 * The days are drawing in, winter's on its way - When did we last have a barbecue? Maybe it’s just as well, hamburgers and sausages will see you off - 22nd June 2014
 * Research shows you pretty much whatever you want - If you read while you’re sitting, you’ll fairly burn off the calories - 8th June 2014
 * Why I visit Aberdeen with a bag on my head - The Scottish delicacy tasted like a mouthful of North Sea - 1st June 2014
 * Why the mood in Italy is downbeat - The Italians are right to be morose. They’ve got another numpty to lead them to doom - 25th May 2014
 * Names are nothing to get worked up about - Many's the Elvis, Madonna and Kylie growing to maturity all over Britain - 18th May 2014
 * France adheres to its customs, no matter what - A nation clings to its rituals while the economy shambles into a utopian future - 11th May 2014
 * Where everybody knows your name - Although proud to be associated with various gentlemen’s, golf and rugby clubs, I’m not much of a club man - 4th May 2014
 * Foreign predators are everywhere at hand - We have enough to worry us these days without the animal kingdom getting its own back - 27th April 2014
 * It might well not be a happy Easter for everyone - In my experience, wishing listeners a fine morning all too often provoked vituperation from those on whom it was sleeting down - 20th April 2014
 * Ireland's president at Windsor Castle - Famous faces swam in and out of view, princes and dukes abounded - 13th April 2014
 * The benign dictatorship of the old-fashioned bank manager - The Royal Bank of Ireland, where I served my time, was not for the faint-hearted - 6th April 2014
 * Taking comfort in the little things - In a world of change, we need to protect the few constants left - such as daffodils and snails - 30th March 2014
 * We can't kick the health advice habit - Experts keep changing their minds on what's good for us - but we're living longer anyway - 23rd March 2014
 * A racing certainty someone heard the word 'hooer' - Terry Wogan recalls presenting a radio show in the sleet at Cheltenham race course - 16th March 2014
 * Floods survival guide: live in a city or buy a submarine - Builders and planners have learnt no lessons from the floods and gales so we must adapt - 9th March 2014
 * Sochi Olympics meant nothing to me but I loved it - Who thought it would be good sport to lay two men on top of each other - 2nd March 2014
 * Sorry seems to be the most overused word - There’s more to good manners than lip service - 23rd February 2014
 * The leaping goldfish and other animal tales - Britain is bursting with animal lovers, sadly deluded about the true nature of their pets - 16th February 2014
 * Now they say asprin may do more harm than good - and it's not the first about-turn - 9th February 2014
 * Let us hope the harbingers of climate-change doom are wrong - You could say I spent my youth surrounded by water - 2nd February 2014
 * Reincarnation appears to be the watchword for 2014 - Birds of a Feather, Open All Hours, Only Fools and Horses - what next, On the Buses - 26th January 2014
 * A sale is not a sale any more - The big stores behave as if it’s January all year round, so it’s high time someone took the wind out of their sales - 12th January 2014
 * Do these new year exercise crazes ever work? - Forget about signing up to gym classes, because you know it'll be a failure - 5th January 2014
 * Christmas is over, New Year's Eve is coming - party on! - I’ll bet Bob Cratchit got first go at the skin when they cooked the starling, before Scrooge stuck his oar in - 29th December 2013
 * Christmas is all about the children - nearly - Christmas has become more expensive because that's the way we want it - 22nd December 2013
 * The worst words of the year - There has been no shortage of grating words and phrases - 15th December 2013
 * The festive deadline approaches - Surely you’re not taking the chance again this year that the Chinese/Indian takeaway will be open on Christmas Day - 8th December 2013
 * Ignore the scowls and turn towards the smiles - For everyone who likes you, there’s another who can’t bear the sight of you - 1st December 2013
 * You've done Children in Need proud again - It’s been a hectic few months in our efforts on behalf of Britain’s poor and disabled children - 17th November 2013
 * I'm too old for trick or treating - We may hate the ridiculous boom in baking, but we don’t fear it. Well, perhaps we’re a little afraid of Mary Berry - 10th November 2013
 * No one wants to say the king has no clothes - The greater the advances in medical knowledge, the more some want to revert to the cures of Druids and faith healers - 3rd November 2013
 * Baffled by newspaper stories - Monday's headlines are a concern for those of us clinging to sanity - 27th October 2013
 * Confusion reigns in the modern age of information - Twenty-four hours a day we're bombarded with news, but how much do we really know - 20th October 2013
 * It's not called the Lake District for nothing - On all sides are drystone walls, black sheep with white faces, white sheep with black faces, and winding lanes - 12th October 2013
 * Finding time for Downton - How is one supposed to do important stuff at such a busy time of year - 6th October 2013
 * 'Mellow fruitfulness', my hat - Is it too early to be throwing chestnuts on an open fire? No! I’ve just seen an advert for Christmas hampers - 28th September 2013
 * 'Bang Bang' wouldn't have lasted long in New York - Thankfully, trigger-happy cops were thin on the ground in the Dublin of my youth - 22nd September 2013
 * A feast of fine music and British exuberance - Promenaders in the Albert Hall miss the whimsical moments that are the vital ingredients of Proms in the Park - 15th September 2013
 * Pyjamas to work and baked-bean baths - My greatest broadcasting privilege is to have been with Children in Need since the off - 8th September 2013
 * Since when did God do elections? - The Almighty is a Lib Dem? The Old Testament chap was as far removed from Liberal principles of personal freedom and self-determination as you can get - 1st September 2013
 * Thank goodness for sport - Silly season news can leave a man feeling confused - 25th August 2013
 * Jam today, and tomorrow - All the signs are that we are going to be up to our shoulder pads in bottled fruit - 18th August 2013
 * I'll bet Genghis Khan used to make the yurt rock with laughter - Research shows that many of those seeking friendship and more online are lying through their teeth. It's enough to try your GSOH - 11th August 2013
 * Food for thought - So much for the ground-breaking discovery of 'Homo habilis’, who got us out of the trees by dint of the cooking pot and made 'sapiens’ of us all - 4th August 2013
 * Sponsor a brave stroller, or ramble around of your own accord - Terry’s Old Geezers (and Gals) have raised millions, unsung, for Children in Need - 27th July 2013
 * I know as much about snails as I do about swallows and frogs - Even the buzzards have ceased drifting high in the sky, and sit moodily on the telegraph wires, too stunned by the heat - 21st July 2013
 * Rod Stewart is quite right about our deplorable dress sense - Most of us have no idea what we really look like. What else can explain the sights that assail the eye on the street - 14th July 2013
 * Sporting triumphs and disasters - To sit in the best seats, with sardine sandwiches for tea, is nirvana itself - 7th July 2013
 * The omen's aren't good for a barbecue summer - And spare me the sour redcurrants - 30th June
 * Small voices that go unheard - Peaceful protest may have worked for India and Gandhi, but it has little effect down the country lanes - 23rd June 2013
 * Work those muscles, George - A stiff workout with the barbells might well repay Mr Osborne and quell those doubters - 16th June 2013
 * Rainy holidays aren't so bad - We must count our blessings. It’s not so long ago that there were no holidays, even rain-soaked ones - 9th June 2013
 * The best French cooking I’ve ever eaten has been here in Britain - It appears that French children no longer have any idea what they are eating - 2nd June 2013
 * The time it all went silent on the airwaves - Strangers looked at me oddly, afterwards, as you would a vampire or one of the undead - 26th May 2013
 * Keep your eyes on the past or you won't see where you're going - I recently came across two thoughtful critiques of my early TV work, done just after the Relief of Mafeking - 19th May 2013
 * They must be having us on - Driverless cars bowling along at 40mph, Sherpas in fisticuffs with the climbers on Everest, an American pilot lost in Vietnam – whatever next - 12th May 2013
 * In France the world keeps turning - no matter what the weather brings - Some predict that global warming will shrivel the vines of Bordeaux - 5th May 2013
 * Margaret Thatcher funeral: Before time clouds the images - My memory is of a noble and sad day - 28th April 2013
 * There's no shortage of vivacity at a proper Irish wedding - It seems like only yesterday that the 'Luckiest Woman in Ireland' walked down the aisle - 21st April 2013
 * This isn't news, it's inconsequential trivia - Academics always think they have discovered something the rest of us knew already - 14th April 2013
 * I don’t pretend to understand animals, any more than they understand me - The other week, I found myself sharing a sofa with a dog on live television, in a discussion of the week’s affairs - 7th April 2013
 * Please spare us from 'You know what?' - Nobody knows better than I do how easy it is to gabble on television and radio, to lean on a familiar phrase when searching for the 'mot juste’ - 30th March 2013
 * Thrift has replaced baking as the new rock ' n' roll - The clarion call for belt-tightening has failed to chime with the public - 24th March 2013
 * Nobody in authority will take the blame - It’s not the fault of the road-builders or district councils, it’s the road itself that has let us down. Bad road! - 17th March 2013
 * I remember the days when banking was simple - I can’t help but wonder if Messrs Goldman, Sachs, Merrill and Lynch had the same rigorous apprenticeship - 3rd March 2013
 * Horsing around with food statistics - If you can find a sausage that is not the butcher’s sweepings and doesn’t leave horsehair in your teeth, eat away - 24th February 2013
 * We didn't have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. That's how we roll - Unlike the Oscars, the Oldie of the Year prize winners are picked by judges of intellect and discernment, and me - 17th February 2013
 * It's the little things that drive you to drink - And the big ones hardly ever happen - 10th February 2013
 * Bad weather? Time for never-ending sport on telly - Tennis and golf have been transformed into year-round sports by television - 3rd February 2013
 * At least the snow didn't catch us unawares - The weather brings out the best, and worst, in us - 27th January 2013
 * Eating is just about survival for some - It’s time to face up to reality and stop talking nonsense about diets - 20th January 2013
 * January is as black as your hat - Don't fall to pieces just because it’s gone a bit gloomy - 13th january 2013
 * The mellowing that comes with age isn't coming - The declining years leave me doubtful of the things I was sure about in my youth - 6th January 2013
 * At New Year's Eve, dress for the best but expect the worst - For a good night, avoid the type of party thrown by the Jontys and Jillys of this world - 29th December 2012
 * Talking turkey at Christmas - I suggested that instead of turkey, we might enjoy a couple of ducks. The children, with one voice, threatened to leave home - 23rd December 2012
 * The good citizens of Bugarach have a lot to thank the ancient Mayans for - A little place in France is the place to be when the world ends, which is good news for local hostelries - 16th December 2012
 * Spare us from warmed-up turkey fit only for the bin - The British are too reluctant to complain about bad restaurant food - 9th December 2012
 * The real miracles of Christmas - This is the time of year that puts the blessed union of pensioners at risk - 2nd December 2012
 * I've been a 'veteran' since my early forties - It's laughable to call people in their sixties 'elderly' - 25th November 2012
 * Children in Need doesn't lose sight of the real poverty in Britain - Pudsey the bear strikes a chord in viewers' hearts - 18th November 2012
 * Learning the lessons of Ponzi - It’s not just dear old-fashioned Lord Grantham who believes there is a goose somewhere, laying golden eggs - 11th November 2012
 * Deliveries lead to a bit of a ding-dong - An interesting new approach by the courier companies is not to approach at all - 3rd November 2012
 * When animal magic wears thin - Animals simply don’t respond to me any more than inanimate objects do. Even rodents show me no respect - 27th October 2012
 * Telling a man he can’t dance is like telling him he’s a bad driver - We should treasure the 'Strictly Come Dancing' loser Johnny Ball as having the true Corinthian spirit - 21st October 2012
 * It’s the book signings that separate the wheat from the chaff - As Terry Wogan signed one of his books for an eager buyer, he heard a passing customer inquire of an assistant: 'Who is that?’ - 14th October 2012
 * And what time do you call this, Rory McIlroy? - The Ryder Cup golfer was in Chicago for at least four days before giving a thought to where time’s winged chariot had taken him - 7th October 2012
 * Vanity, vanity, all is vanity - None of us can tell how we really appear to others - 30th September 2012
 * As the Duchess of Cambridge now knows, privacy is not an option - If, like the Duchess of Cambridge, you are in the public eye, you no longer have the freedom to behave as you want - 23rd September 2012
 * Why the Proms in the Park topped a glorious year - Will the good intentions and resolutions slowly dissipate with the passing years - 16th September 2012
 * What's wrong with organic food? - Some 'research' can be taken with a pinch of salt - 9th September 2012
 * Glorying from afar in a nation's pride - Britain invented team games, but it is in individual heroism that she stands alone - 2nd September 2012
 * Are too many cooks spoiling our broth? - These days, you can't throw a stone in a country road without hitting a television chef - 26th August 2012
 * Fowl play in deepest France - It's hard to understand what all the shouting is about when it comes to France’s favourite bird - 19th August 2012
 * Nothing beats the drama of live sport - 12th August 2012
 * It's the month when France takes a powder - We've hardly got a toe in August and it's loony tunes already - 5th August 2012
 * London 2012 Olympics: These Games will bring glory - Now it's London's turn to light up the world - 29th July 2012
 * Why I don't complain about the rain - The happy memories of our youth are made brighter in the afterglow - 22nd July 2012
 * Who would deny the sardine its comeback? - Kindly friends have been bringing me gifts - 15th July 2012
 * Let's have much more opera on the beach - Garsington has proved a hit when beamed to the sands of Skegness - 8th July 2012
 * The forgotten wonder of a tinned sardine - Teatime in the Royal Box is the only place in the world where they still serve sardine sandwiches - 1st July 2012
 * In France, I hate to admit, they do it better - But can anything be a patch on the proceedings at Southfork in the revived series of Dallas? - 24th June 2012
 * This drought is all your fault - stop using the lavatory, shower and bath - It would be foolish to think we should build more reservoirs, pipelines and to stop leaks from water mains - 17th June 2012
 * Thoughts on the Queen’s Great Occasion - A chilled British country garden soup would probably have worked better on a warmer June evening - 10th June 2012
 * This little French town makes its prosperous way with parties - For festivals, the place is given over to ragamuffins and strolling players - 3rd June 2012
 * Everybody who knows no better thinks of François Hollande as a beige bureaucrat - Mitterrand and Chirac were never game for a laugh, and De Gaulle was positively morose - 26th May 2012
 * Well, blow me, if it's not the wrong kind of wind - Let's just blame the airport chaos on the elements - 20th May 2012
 * The Turner Prize is a funny old game - Now is the time of the year when loonier adherents burst through the common old bonds of painting and sculpture and run amok - 6th May 2012
 * Time to appoint a Chief Rainmaker - We should learn the lessons of history - 29th April 2012
 * Is obesity really the curse of modern Britain? - Our cavemen ancestors ate nothing but wild berries and fruit, got lots of exercise running away from wild animals and never saw the other side of 35 - 22nd April 2012
 * Eating slithery things in south west France - The French have never been as picky as us about what they put in their mouths - 15th April 2012
 * Like the Prime Minister, I too have suffered at the hands of a pie - It left me unable to tell Miss Bristol from Miss Oldham - 8th April 2012
 * Dig out the rusty bicycle, or you're going to be confined to barracks - The panic-buying of petrol and diesel is sure to be followed by the equally panicked stockpiling of baked beans, frozen pizzas and other essentials - 1st April 2012
 * Who'd want to be Chancellor? Or Archbishop of Canterbury? - The top jobs are all poisoned chalices - 25th March 2012
 * How can anyone say that eating red meat will give you cancer? - If you give up red meat and alcohol you may not live any longer. It will just seem like it - 18th March 2012
 * Wogan's World: in praise of the older woman - Seeing Meryl Streep receive her Oscar for The Iron Lady brought back a little memory of the great lady herself - 11th March 2012
 * New research - or the same old story? - The latest 'new research’ indicates that brewing tea in a cup can kill you - 4th March 2012
 * The oddities of Britain's kindly weather - It is strange that Britain, on whom it rains steadily throughout the year, apparently won’t have any water by March - 26th February 2012
 * You can't beat a good moan about the weather - The recent mild spell has been an awful let-down - 22nd February 2012
 * Why nothing seems to be working these days - Clutching at straws has replaced rational thought in economic thinking - 19th February 2012
 * The French don’t really see the funny side of things - Paris involved an overcrowded car, a van full of gendarmes, and a Gallic sense of humour failure - 12th February 2012
 * It’s not for numpties on the back page to comment on serious events like the cricket - Fame and so-called celebrity get you as many brickbats as applause - 5th February 2012
 * Only in the Australian Open does play take place in the early hours to avoid the sun - Melbourne is the tournament that most frequently keeps me from slipping into the arms of Morpheus - 29th January 2012
 * Britain’s Corinthian spirit got lost in translation - The sporting gesture is something the British have tried to teach the world - 15th January 2012
 * A few resolutions for a truly happy New Year - Mervyn King should give the Voice of Doom a rest - and no more 'big asks', if you please - 8th January 2012
 * I don't miss the early starts on the radio, but I do miss the people - and the food - Many’s the BBC newsreader, announcer, presenter, engineer and producer that I kept from starvation’s door - 1st January 2012
 * Look on the bright side this Christmas - Forget Europe - could someone do something about those celebrity chefs mucking up a perfectly good turkey - 18th December 2011
 * It seems I don't even need to know Albert Wogan to claim his cash - A letter from a stranger promises untold wealth - 11th December 2011
 * Tales from the riverbank - with the Da - He would have been shocked to find rejects like eel, pollack and mullet on ritzy menus - 4th December 2011
 * A forest was felled to mark the departure of Russell Grant from Strictly Come Dancing - But you'd search the tabloids in vain for mention of a record-breaking Children in Need appeal - 27th November
 * The Bunga Bungler isn't the only victim of 'deliberate misunderstanding' - At this time of year, the gaffes seem to arrive like the leaves falling from the trees - 13th November 2011
 * How I staged the greatest fireworks displays never seen - Fireworks on radio are magical, cheap, and don't frighten the cat - 6th November 2011
 * Spare us from the wrath of the trick-or-treaters - Nothing more embarrassing than a little fellow shouting through your letterbox: 'We know you’re in there!’ - 30th October 2011
 * Why do they keep trotting out this Looney idea about Shakespeare? - A Gateshead schoolteacher's bizarre conspiracy theory has now become the basis for an entire Hollywood blockbuster - 24th October 2011
 * Giving birth isn't art, it's life - Performance artist Marni Kotak's next 'work' will be the birth of her child. The words 'Emperor' and 'clothes' spring to mind - 16th October 2011
 * This plan for a fat tax is belly credible - The Government should get the nation of its economic backside before worrying about our waistlines - 9th October 2011
 * Pasta, roast beef or chicken tikka - which is Britain's favourite food? - The new survey showing that Italian is our favourite food should be treated with caution - 2nd October 2011
 * Paying more tax will get us nowhere very fast - Warren Buffet wants to contribute more, but working for charity seems a better way of making a difference - 18th September 2011
 * I made it through Escargadon, although the shelling was incessant - In this mighty engagement, a mere 300 humans faced a horde of 20,000 snails - 11th September 2011
 * The obesity scare raises its weighty head again - Ignore the doomsayers, and eat what you darn well please - 4th September 2011
 * Celebrity Big Brother, was Sally Bercow really striking a blow for women everywhere?'' - The appearance of the Speaker's wife on reality TV was an utterly unreal affair - 28th August 2011
 * infuriating watching 'experts' tell us how to suck eggs'' - Pontificating about what caused the riots is all very well, but do we have the will to change the lives of the disadvantaged? - 21st August 2011
 * was so good I even took a job on it'' - The end of Concorde took the glamour out of flying. - 14th August 2011
 * No one has the foggiest idea who I am'' - Finding out what the public really think of you is quite an eye-opener - 7th August 2011
 * sort of chump pays £75,000 for a bottle of wine and then doesn't drink it?'' - It doesn't take a genius to work out what to do with the world's most expensive bottle of wine - 31st July 2011
 * hacking: what we'll remember when the dust has settled'' - The Murdoch scandal has given us revelation after revelation, but it's the foam pie and Wendi's punch that will live on - 24th July 2011
 * news for the health police - being fat could save your life'' - Expert health advice brings us nothing but confusion - 10th July 2011
 * has got their favourite Wodehouseism'' - Once you start talking about Wodehouse, the urge to quote him becomes almost unstoppable - 3rd July 2011
 * just how many of us are round the twist?'' - A surprising number of the population are downright lunatics - 26th June 2011
 * old Wogan: two floods in the same week'' - Life doesn't get easier as you get older - especially when the roof falls in - 19th June 2011
 * relentless diet of bad news'' - but for the cockeyed optimist, there are breaks in the cloud - 12th June 2011
 * the coverage, you’d think Sepp Blatter, not Ratko Mladic, was the mass murderer'' - England will never be forgiven for inventing the game, and thinking that it owns its soul – which explains the refusal to back the FA's attempt to postpone Fifa's election - 5th June 2011
 * that selfless hero of free speech'' - How dare the French keep the truth of their politicians’ peccadilloes from the Man on the Boulevard - 29th May 2011
 * three cups of coffee a day make a woman's breasts shrink?'' - Diet, fitness and health have become an obsession - now If only the advice we are given wasn't so contradictory - 22nd May 2011
 * Italians had a way with the Eurovision Song Contest that bordered on carelessness'' - Terry Wogan on the evening of eccentric delight that has wormed its way into our hearts - 15th May 2011
 * like the royal wedding, the AV referendum was a Wogan-free zone'' - 8th May 2011
 * wedding: a splendid occasion, but where was my invitation?'' - You'd think that being Prince William's great-grandmother's favourite broadcaster would count for something - 1st May 2011
 * Cameron should smarten up his act'' - Knowing when to get dressed up is a valuable skill - but it's an increasingly rare one - 24th April 2011
 * Kate not be granted some peace?'' - I still had the remains of post-holiday wellbeing until I made the cardinal error of driving into London - 17th April 2011
 * I placed Phuket under something of a cloud'' - It hasn't stopped raining in Thailand for weeks, and it's my fault - 10th April 2011
 * celebrate the royal wedding with fun and gaiety'' - The BBC has been accused of 'dumbing down' its commentary for the royal wedding. That's just what it needs - 3rd April 2011
 * world: If you need cheering up, there's always mashed potato'' - Keeping the spirits up has not been easy this week - 27th March 2011
 * perils of St Patrick's Day at Cheltenham'' - One reason why the Irish love Cheltenham is because they can behave in a manner they’d never get away with at home - 20th March 2011
 * do the beaches and the bush of Africa have an Italian beneath every umbrella?'' - Terry Wogan enjoys an unusual holiday in Kenya - 13th March 2011
 * don't take us back to Dallas'' - TV bosses should leave JR and Sue Ellen to enjoy their retirement - 20th February 2011
 * Meryl Streep capture the Margaret Thatcher I knew?'' - Ahead of the new film on the Iron Lady, Terry Wogan recalls his own encounters with Margaret Thatcher - 13th February 2011
 * clubs have been spending like Irish bankers'' - Last week's transfer fees make the bankers' bonuses look positively miserly - 6th February 2011
 * entitled to their own opinion'' - In the last week it might have been better if some people had kept their opinions to themselves - 30th January 2011
 * Irish will rise again'' - Ireland's people have a history that puts the present into perspective - 23rd January 2011
 * and television are not jobs for life'' - As Miriam O'Reilly knows, being a TV presenter is a risky old game - 16th January 2011
 * Frenchman's home is his castle - with drawbridge pulled firmly up'' - The French guard their land and their privacy fiercely - 9th January 2011
 * Come Dancing might be gone, but Delia's lurking in the wings'' - The end of Christmas means it's business as usual on the TV schedules - 1st January 2011
 * a Christmas glutton to a doting grandpa'' - Terry Wogan isn't quite the man he was around the turkey and the trimmings - 26th December 2010
 * year after retiring, I've got less free time than ever'' - Terry Wogan thought giving up his BBC radio show would give him more time for grouting - not so... - 19th December 2010
 * Christmas, let's have a moratorium on turkey'' - Terry Wogan offers a plan to improve the festive season - 5th December 2010
 * aren't I hosting Strictly? The truth can now be told...'' - Terry Wogan, former host of Come Dancing, reveals why he wasn't beckoned back to the ballroom - 28th November 2010
 * is part of the package when you're on TV'' - The row over Countryfile ignores the reality of the industry - 21st November 2010
 * in Need needs your support'' - Terry Wogan gets out the annual begging bowl - 14th November 2010
 * X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing show the problem with public opinion'' - Terry Wogan on the difficulties of trusting the people's judgment - 7th November 2010
 * health scares that pass like the wind'' - We are constantly in a state of mild panic about our survival - 31st October 2010
 * could do with some fantasy'' - When there’s little else apart from 'reality’ on TV, leave us our dreams at least - 24th October 2010
 * rekindles my love of sport'' - After my scathing column on the death of sportsmanship, a rugby game has set me straight - 17th October
 * great has been lost in the world of sport'' - The Ryder Cup apart, the scandals that haunt the sporting world paint a depressing picture - 10th October 2010
 * want to be a celebrity?'' - Terry Wogan explains why he won't be flying out to the I'm A Celebrity jungle, or tapping his toes on Strictly Come Dancing - 3rd October 2010
 * an airport is like being a double agent slipping across Checkpoint Charlie'' - The air of suppressed panic in the traveller's bosom has been only grown in recent years - 26th September 2010
 * do we listen to these comedians?'' - Stephen Fry’s opinions are revered in a way that those of, say, Michael Winner, can never be - 19th September 2010
 * retirement a thing of the past?'' - As the French strike over their pensions, Terry Wogan ponders our strange attitude towards retirement - 11th September 2010
 * in a name?'' - Naming a baby is an awesome responsibility - so steer clear of Panatella and Santorini - 5th September 2010
 * World: I've often pondered what to eat before I die'' - I’m always disappointed by the final breakfast choice of the condemned man: a burger and fries. Junk. I’d insist on an ‘Ulster fry’ - 29th August 2010
 * not let a man walk his owls?'' - Walking weird pets is a time-honoured British tradition - 22nd August 2010
 * diamonds: no one's interested in Charles Taylor, it's the Naomi Campbell Show'' - If it weren't for the supermodel sideshow, the world's press wouldn't be interested in this trial - 15th August 2010
 * role in controlling the planet's weather'' - It's not for nothing that I'm known as The Rainmaker - 8th August 2010
 * up for the motorist'' - Last week I saw a cyclist spit in a motorist's face. There's a metaphor for you - 1st August 2010
 * everybody else is having a whale of a time, the musicians look as if they're playing at a funeral'' - Terry Wogan continues his journey around the coast of Ireland - 18th July 2010
 * soft rain beats steadily down'' - They say our childhood memories are only of the sunny days. Not if you were born in Limerick - 11th July 2010
 * Cup 2010: In two years' time, the insanity will begin again'' - The memory of England's abject failure will fade, and the hype and nonsense will return - 3rd July 2010
 * Osborne should be praying that England wins the World Cup'' - If England bring the World Cup home, the Government might get a bit of breathing space - 13th June 2010
 * at by bullfrogs'' - Terry Wogan savours the nightlife in deepest France - 9th June 2010
 * world: Notes from Rome'' - Terry Wogan recalls his experiences from the Eternal City in Italy - 30th May 2010
 * no hunger for politics in rural France'' - Wogan's World: In deepest Gascony, weeks are given over to celebrating the snail, oyster, prune and duck.'If it moves, eat it is the philosophy - 23rd May 2010
 * to George and his raincoat'' - If I never see George Alagiah standing outside No 10 again, it'll be too soon - 16th May 2010
 * Election 2010: Plenty to see if not to enjoy'' - This election made no one happy, including the TV pundits who covered it - 8th May 2010
 * yellow is the new black'' - Nick Clegg's sunny tie has set the fashion world alight - 3rd May 2010
 * by television is not a good idea'' - A three-man head-to-head is a contradiction - 25th April 2010
 * likes a smart alec, so I'll do my gloating quietly'' - The swine flu panic has subsided - just as Terry Wogan predicted - 11th April 2010
 * heard of a three-man head-to-head?'' - The early stages of the election campaign have been disappointing - 4th April 2010
 * easy to be an oaf about art'' - I don't want to be the sort of person who says "I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like" - 28th March 2010
 * political debates will be a question of image'' - The confrontation, just like Kennedy/Nixon, will be won and lost on image and appearance - 7th March 2010
 * back Jose Mourinho!'' - The Special One would have turned the John Terry saga into a proper circus - 28th February 2010
 * 2 did the impossible - so why tell it to stop?'' - Ordering the station to abandon younger listeners is a mistake - 21st February 2010
 * love is worth going dutch on a Big Mac'' - White knights are in short supply, but we still crave romance come Valentine's Day - 13th February 2010
 * a week to be a WAG!'' - When I saw the 'Terry' headlines, I thought they'd finally got something on me - 7th February 2010
 * used to be proud to be a banker'' - When I joined the profession, we bankers were poor but honest folk - 31st January 2010
 * flu? Sorry, I'm right as rain'' - I haven't got swine flu, but I do have something to get off my chest... - 24th January 2010
 * blame the Met Office - blame the weathermen'' - Things have never been the same since Bert Ford hung up his mackintosh - 17th January 2010
 * thoughts from abroad...'' - Even in Gascony, it's possible to feel sorry for those trapped by the snow - 10th January 2010
 * the women who bear the real pain of retirement'' - If you want to know how I'm faring since my retirement, don't ask my wife - 3rd January 2010
 * final fond farewell'' - As Terry Wogan bows out of his beloved breakfast show, the Togmeister recalls his most cherished radio ramblings - 20th December 2009
 * Terry Wogan ponders French swimwear'' - Divided as we are by a narrow body of water, and given our interlinked histories, it's a constant source of wonder just how divided the British are from the French - 29th August 2009
 * Wogan fears for BBC'' - Sir Terry Wogan has warned that the BBC is suffering a crisis of confidence which has left it in a "vulnerable position" - 11th April 2009
 * than teaching happiness, schools should equip pupils with the three Rs - helping them to earn a few bob and maybe some happiness too'' - 14th December 2008
 * with Democracy, the price of Health and Safety is eternal vigilance, and examples of local councils' insane strictures roll in'' - 7th December 2008
 * Sergeant, Somalian pirates and sparrows'' - 23rd November 2008
 * YOU a responsible pet owner?'' - Hats off to our leaders for New Guidelines for Pet Owners. Hurrah! Just what the country needs: anthropomorphism - 9th November 2008
 * every news bulletin has to open like Armageddon is just around the corner?'' - 2nd November 2008
 * that would beggar a sheik'' - Gamely staring recession and inflation in the face as we are, it's refreshing to be bombarded with suggestions for Christmas gifts - 19th October 2008
 * for Alistair Darling'' - 12th October 2008
 * the media to get glum'' - 5th October 2008
 * election fever, plus diva'' - John McCain looks unwell - 28th September 2008
 * Of all the nations of the known world, the Brits are the least likely to have a go at the wrongdoer...'' - 7th September 2008
 * extraordinary architectural triumph of the athletics stadium known as the "Bird's Nest", how can we better that? And what catchy, typically British name shall we call it?'' - 31st August 2008
 * myself struck down by some benighted bacillus last week, there was little for it but to lay back on the jewel-encrusted ottoman with the reviving dish of Lobsang Souchong, and let Team GB's triumphant Olympics wash over me...'' - 24th August 2008
 * Hilton for President '' - 17th August 2008
 * good news that our caring Government is to offer us more choice as to where we would like to pop our clogs brought an overwhelming surge of gratitude from the grateful citizenry...'' - 20th July 2008
 * separated from the United States by more than just the Herring Pond'' - 13th July 2008


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