Sir Terry Wogan
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2012
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan.
His career has spanned more than five decades and includes the chat show Wogan, the Eurovision Song Contest, the quiz Blankety Blank and for many years being the host of Radio 2's breakfast show.
He says: "You have to create a kind of little club - you are not talking to an audience, you are talking to one person - and they are only half listening anyway. It's a mistake to think that everyone is clinging to your every word."
Producer: Corinna Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Kirstie Young. Thank you for downloading this podcast of Desert Island Disks from BBC Radio 4. |
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| 0:17.0 | Radio 4. My castaway this week is Sir Terry Wogan, a pillar of broadcasting he has for |
| 0:39.2 | more than 40 years made an art and a platinum-plated career out of just chatting. |
| 0:44.7 | The man who put the wit in wittering, he's been our companion through thousands of on-air |
| 0:49.2 | hours. In early mornings with his hit Radio 2 show on prime time TV with his chat show |
| 0:55.2 | Wogan the Eurovision song contest and blankety blank and not least as the beating |
| 1:00.8 | heart of the multi-million pound fundraising |
| 1:03.3 | extravaganza that is children in need. |
| 1:05.8 | He's done it all with an easy warmth, |
| 1:08.5 | rye self mockery, and the ability that every broadcaster craves a deep connection with his audience. |
| 1:15.0 | Typically downplaying his talent, he says, |
| 1:18.0 | my whole life has been about making it up as I go along. |
| 1:22.0 | Happy New Year, Sir Terry. Thank you, that's very kind. I hardly |
| 1:25.7 | recognize myself from your description. I'm enormously flattering. Oh, I'm glad I came to |
| 1:32.2 | the desert. Yes, I'm glad you came too. You were part of the Radio 2 breakfast show of course at the center of it for more than 25 years. |
| 1:39.0 | Two years since you've given it up. Is it a space that's been hard to fill? |
| 1:44.0 | No, as I've often said, I'm a very shallow person, so I can move from one thing to another without |
| 1:51.9 | thinking too much about it. I miss the interplay with my |
| 1:56.4 | listeners because every morning I would come in I'd have about three, four hundred, five hundred |
| 2:01.0 | emails and really they were my material I've never rehearsed for anything and so I |
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