A Tribute to Sir Terry The One Show

Hello, it's coming up to 7 o'clock. What better time to celebrate

the man who spent 50 years entertaining us on

television and radio. Yes, this was Sir Terry Wogan's slot

and we're proud to be sharing it with him tonight, taking things

slowly, as he was wont to do, and revelling in his

work and his wit. Joining us are people who were lucky

enough to work with him - our friend Chris Evans,

who had the impossible task of taking over his radio show.

Graham Norton, another great talent who followed

in his footsteps on Eurovision. Alan Dedicoat and Lynne Bowles,

his on-air wingman and woman, who bantered away many

an early morning together. And later Sue Cook, who presented

Children in Need alongside Sir Terry for 11 years.

So welcome to you all. It's good to see you.

APPLAUSE. It's a shame on such a sad day, but what a collection of people

we have. I know, Chris, would have been absolutely knocked sideways by

the news yesterday morning. Where were you and when did you hear the

news of Sir Terry's passing this I woke up yesterday morning to a

message from our boss at Radio 2, Bob Shennan. It was a voice message.

Message. I was asleep and he said, can you please call me back

urgently, there's something you need to know. So I called him back and he

told me. It was a quarter past 8. And with that, so many memories must

flash before you. If there was one, we are going to be talking for an

hour about this, so don't feel the pressure, but if there was one vivid

memory that you have of Sir Terry what would it be? There are so many.

And today, the last 24 hours have taught me more about life than the

last 24 years. I knew Terry relatively well. Graham knew him

well, "Deadly" and Lynn better than we did. I met him 25 years ago-ish.

He took he under his wing. I didn't deserve it, I was an eejit as he

would have said. Wayward. When I was on Radio 1 he was on Radio 2. He

invited me to his studio to break the bread and then very quickly

after that he said look, we do wake up half the nation every morning,

why don't we get together one day and chat about that a bit? He

invited me to have a game of golf with him, which was brilliant to

play golf with Terry Wogan, the man who holds the record for the

longsest telesides putt. I went to his house. You know when you imagine

somebody's house and it is never how you want it to be, but this was

exactly, big gates, crunching gravel. Have you been? No. I

thought, I must play well today. But we weren't going to play golf

straight away because we were going to have lunch, and before lunch we

had a drink. A bottle of pink champagne. I thought, here we go.

Within an hour it had gone and Lady Helen had made a pre-prepared lunch,

because she was off to play bridge. We finished lunch at 2 or 3, at

which point I couldn't remember the game of golf, and we had another

game of golf. We got to the 11th hole out of 18. He said, I think

Christie, we had better wrap it up after this one. I said, yes, it is

getting rather dark, and he said no, we've got dinner booked at 8

o'clock. And it got to half ten and we had to be up to do our shows the

next day. I thought, we had better go now. I didn't want to call an

early night. He said, Christie, what's the matter now? I said, we've

got to get ready to do our show. He said, what time do you get up? I

said, half four. He said you are not on until half six. He said they

either like you or they don't. And that's the best thing I've -- heard

about broadcasting. The more you hear about him... He always had time

for people after the show, time for his pals, time for the team, and

time on the radio and on telly, like you said. That's why he could be so

funny, because he gave himself time to think about things and listen to

things and orchestrate and use that wit and vocabulary that he had. What

about you Graham? I love that Sir Terry Wogan was the one leaving you

astray. For me it was how funny he was. I remember him laughing like a

drain when he did the round-ups of what happened in Dallas the night

before, or the Janet and John stories. And the things you didn't

appreciate fully at the time. The way he used language, the words he

would use. We had never heard the word ginormous before he said it. He

was very well read Weirdly always prepared in that way, because he

knew where he wanted to take things and what have you, so he was

prepared in his own way even if at this time looked like he didn't want

to do a lot of prep. This is your The One Show, so if you have ever

met Sir Terry, please share your pictures. We would love to see them.

We'll show some later. As well as everything else Sir Terry made many

television documentaries. One of the most recent was when he toured the

UK in a black cab in search of the best British food. His driver was

Mason McQueen and he was out and about early this morning in search

of more memories of the great man. The first stop memory lane,ester and

your fondest memories of Sir Terry. The first night of the first

Children In Need, we were facing ten hours of live television. And

autocue broke. It could have been a disaster with anyone else, but of

course Terry, as you know, loved unscripted. He loved mistakes. We

just bantered. There was no feeling of fear on my part because I had

unflappable T Wogan next to me. When I first met him I came home and my

wife Sid, you're talking like Terry Wogan! I said, am I? A slight Irish

Liberal Democrat. I had been around him all day. He had this effect on

you. I remember he was a guest on Top Gear and you realised how sharp

he was, he was so funny. I wasn't going all out. You can say that

again! I don't normally get affected by this sort of news. You hear of a

celebrity's passing but this time it's been quite depressing. Tell us

all you know about Mr T? The mornings in the radio studio,

listening you would laugh, but off air you would end up helpless with

laughter sometimes. It is a fantastic day to start the day

either as a listener or a colleague. How many people get to laugh first

thing in the morning as part of their work? And we did. It was

fantastic fun. Whenever I think about it I just smile. Exactly, and

that's how he would want us now. I used to watch that programme,

Blankety Blank, the chequebook and pen. We didn't get television until

later on in our teenage years, so Blankety Blank was the big one

there. My mother lived for that show. You would be proud to be

seeing an Irishman making it over here and doing well. Everybody

seemed to love him. Are you a fan of Terry Wogan? Of course, I've been a

fan of his for years. I like Eurovision but I like tuning in to

hear what Terry says. This is my favourite bit because I was reared

on diddly d diction music. When somebody was silly or not good, the

to hear what serry would say about it. This will win. How are you? I'm

sad. It is like that isn't it, but he wouldn't want us to be sad,

Gabby. I know, I did my radio show yesterday and everyone said, how can

you do it? If Terry was there he would say, what do you think you're

doing? Just entertain. He didn't take it too serious did he? No, but

the only thing he took seriously was his love of his family. I think

everybody is talking about their wonderful memories of him, and

people who knew him and worked with him. But it is his family. My heart

is breaking for the family. He adored his family. They came first,

Helen and the kids came first. APPLAUSE. Do you know... So many

people are saying how they feel that we forget there's a family at the

core of it and are really going through it. Of course, and everybody

feels so much shock across the nation. You really can't imagine.

Alan, let's have a word about how you ended up working with Sir Terry.

You read the news, 15 years you did it? More than 15 years I gave to

that man. How did it start? We had a team of about ten and we wanted it

whittled down to a few so we could build up a relationship with him.

One of my favourite stories of great man is on one occasion I did get

invited to the house. And it is a lovely place, a nice gaffe. We were

going to the mad escy lovely place, a nice gaffe. We were

going to the mad -- Madejski stadium to watch rugby. Rugby. Rugby. My aim

is to hoover up the food generally, but I was standing in his lounge. It

was very lived in. I was looking down the garden on a wet, miserable

Saturday morning. Morning. I remember seeing this grey object at

the end of the garden. I said, what is the that there, is it a Wendy

house for the kids? He leaned over and said, it's Windsor Castle. And

it was! His house backs on to Windsor Castle. But it was by royal

appointment, because the Queen did listen. And Lynn, you joined up a

little bit later. I was about the last five years with you guys on

air. I had been five years behind the scenes but I think Terry was

never one to prepare. This is going to come through, I feel, in this

show. He knew the word rehearsal but didn't know how to put into it

operation. He said, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse and then pull

back. Forget the rehearsal. You do traffic and travel. Lots of people

will be excited to see new the flesh this evening. Who are obviously

crackers! But you worked closely with Terry. Closely with Chris and

Ken. Presumably there's a different atmosphere or vibe for each of the

three. Chris obviously horrendous every morning... Absolutely. You

don't know how much I suffer. How was Terry? Ken is obviously my radio

husband, but Sir Terry Wogan was just fantastic. He was the best guy

you could ever work with. He was kind and generous. He was generous

to a fault as a broadcaster. Not all broadcasters are. You will be

surprised to learn. But he, if I said the clever thing to get us to

finish a little skit, he would let me have it. He didn't need to top

me, because he just wanted everyone to have a good time. If that

finished it, fine, we would move on. Even that intonation that you have,

when you talk to him you can't help but get on to that flow and the way

he's. A beautiful voice. You never worried about him being a big star.

He was just a good bloke. I think that's, you forget this was the

first guy who presented in that way, that incredibly relaxed laid-back

way, the way everyone aspires to do now. I think he came up with that,

the idea of being that. It sounded like he was wearing a cardigan, not

a suit. He is the first and only person I've ever been star struck

with. I remember when I did an interview with him on Blue Peter. I

couldn't believe that it was him there. I thought, and he made me

feel so at ease. I thought, if I can get through this, I can talk to

anybody. He was so magical. He said I will stay to the end of your

filming, all the bits you need to do I'm here for you, don't worry. He

knew if he was relaxed the show was relaxed. Listeners and viewers,

there is nothing they like more than a relaxed conversation. It really

works and communicates. Graham is right, he originated that. He was

half a decade older than the Radio 1 lot when they started. So in '67 he

was five or six years older, almost a generation older. He was never

really a disc jockey. He was more of an observer really. He was

intelligent and disk jockeys aren't, they are simpletons the, so he made

us feel even more up to weed his wit. If we could have 10% of what he

had, we would be 100% better. At RTE he was an announcer and a teacher.

Terry once said, my opinion has the weight of a tonne of feathers but he

meant that to be taken with a huge pinch of salt. And nobody knew more

than him what made great radio. He started in 1967. At his peak Wake Up

To Wogan had 871 million dump Wake Up To Wogan had 8.7 million

listeners, although he said he only had one.

The most important programme on any radio network is the morning show,

the Breakfast Show, it identifies the network and it's at the time

when people are more susceptible or more receptive, if you like, to what

is going on. She's going to be singing live... Yeah... So you have

to reflect, I think, what they are actually looking at or what they are

listening to, or what they're involved with. Ten seconds, Terry...

You're better off listening to Radio Two. You don't hear that very often,

to you? Oh, sorry to talk to you while your mic is on and you're

eating. I love raidy owe because I can impose my own timing on it. And

because people think while they're listening to the radio, television

is, you know, the thinking is done for you. You can't really pause too

much, otherwise the director will take the camera off you. Keith's on

casters or Wordsworth's on wheels... Poetry in motion. A very Terry

Wogan... People tend to say to me, I prefer you on the radio, than I do

in the television -- on the television.

And that's because I think they're probably right, it's more my medium

than the television, the radio. Who wakes you up each morning when you'd

rather stay asleep... The radio Show I would say is the show for which I

have the most innate ability. I've never ever been frightened of a

microphone. I've been frightened of a camera.

And I've never doubted my ability to speak into a microphone. I've always

been able to do it. Television took an awful lot longer. And yes, it's

fun and a great challenge to do the big things particularly. But my

first love, my first job was radio. And that's the thing, I think,

they'll probably have to drag me away from the microphone when they

decide to elbow me. I shall cling to it. There'll be a lot of tears and

screaming. I'm gonna miss you. Thank you. Thank you for being my friend.

Wasn't that a moment! We have many of the TOGs in the awed yen tonight,

Terry's fan base of course, the glue that held many a radio show together

-- in the audience. Why are you so loyal to the man, who was it about

Terry that you loved? He was just such a wonderful, charming, gentle,

generous man with that wonderful voice that you could wake up to. If

we could just bottle what he had, we'd all be millionaires, but I

think I feel like a millionaire just for the privilege of having met and

known him. Gosh, what a fantastic thing to say. Nigel, what was it for

you then about Sir Terry? Just that he supported everything that we did

with the TOGs in fund-raising, a really generous man and a lovely man

to be in his company, funny and welcoming to everyone. After meeting

all of you tonight, you've radiated warmth, just a lovely warm group of

people. Christine, he inspired a lot of people, you included? He did. For

me, he lit up every morning. He lit up a room and I think he lit up all

our lives. Yes, truly inspiring. In terms of inspiration or something

specific, because you became a DJ? I did. When I retired nearly five

years ago, I'd always been musical, wanted to learn the processes,

thought I would be doing it in a room quietly, went off and did some

courses, got the equipment, build-up play list, got a tutor, and then the

TOGs, thanks to Norman and Helen at one of our conventions I was going

to every year said "would you dDJ for us"? Can you imagine, I've never

performed, and the day I was doing my performance, I was sitting next

to Terry at lunch which was such an honour. Terry said, be yourself,

just relax. He got up and was thanking all the TOGs and then said

"Dizzy Twilight is going to be your DJ". That is perfect for a DJ isn't

it? Well, it was in there but I was very honoured indeed so what an

inspiration. We have four other people who're quite good on the raid

yes over there. Lovely to see the TOGs because one

of the elements that kind of fired the imagination of so many listeners

as well, but the was the thing because Sir Terry was just magical

at being able to create a fantasy world with all the characters that

went along with it being radio and it lent itself to the imagination so

much more so what was it like for you guys to be working in this

imaginary fantasy world? Here is a great example of that, every 5th

November we had the silent fireworks...

LAUGHTER It's bad enough doing fireworks on

the radio, but silent! ? Because we didn't want to alarm animals and

children which is absolutely the right thing to do. Brilliant. So you

would have a Roman candle. Beautiful! And that would go on

throughout the whole programme. Shall we let another one off, yes.

Oh! Just fantastic. And there was a company that supplied empty

fireworks to have in the studio so that we could have it make sense

then. There was a real irony to him as well. What do you think he'd make

of all of this, Graham? All of this admiration that everybody is seeing

at the moment? Very self-deprecating? He was a little

bit but he did know how good he was. In interviews when he was pinned

down to talk about what he did, he did get it, there was a kind of

self-analysis that went on where he understood, but I'm sure he'd be

very embarrassed and nonplussed by this. It's a weird thing, it seemed

right that we'd gather to sing his praises and I still can't quite

believe that he's not here, we are talking about him without him. On

the front of every newspaper, like somebody from the Royal Family, you

know, all that sort of stuff. It feels right, this, that he's on the

papers as well? I'm sure he knew about the love. We've talked a lot

about radio but his television career included Blankety Blank and

for 28 years, the Eurovision Song Contest, but, it was a show simply

called Wogan by brought him regularly into our homes at this

very time of night. Rarely a dull moment, particularly when certain

female guests sat opposite him. It was a show that went out three

nights a week live. You're on, you're on... With a live audience.

With anyone who's anyone dropping in, the good, the bad, the you ugly.

They called it Wogan -- the good, the bad, the ugly. Nicholas Cage,

Robert de Niro... Terry, erm... Is it Terry? Yes, it is. Don't touch

me! It was a risk not many people will take. At the time, many advised

me not to take the risk. Welcome to the beginning of what I hope will be

a long and happy relationship. You are live, aren't you? Yeah... Proof

if it were needed. I wanted to make the interview sparkle. I still think

that's the way to do it. I still think you have to have somebody

who's able to joust and exchange. There is this kind of obsession with

trying to look younger than you are. You're speaking about the West

Coast, a sweeping generality. I'm not a sweeping generality. Certainly

not! I've heard great things about you from Victoria Principal, she's

crazy about you. Do you like her? Yes. OK! . Do you like her? I'm not

going to say no if you don't say no. I like who have you like. Didn't you

find her a little trampy? You haven't read the book have you? No.

Then how can you sit here and have this conversation? With the greatest

difficulty! There were women who were so astoundingly beautiful, you

cannot do anything but react to them. You were voted the third

sexiest lady in the history of the universe. How did you fell about

that? It's completely changed my life. What will you do as you get

older? I'll do a talk show, I imagine. That's all muscle. I don't

know. Do you know what you started when you refused to touch me with a

barge pole, everybody touches my knees ever since.

I had a very low threshold of embarrassment and I have. You know,

the blush of shame easily mantles my cheek. Were you a virgin when you

got married? APPLAUSE

Weren't we all? ! It's like life, it's going to have its highs and its

lows. You haven't paid any attention to

what I've been saying... They don't make any concession to the fact that

you're a woman. Why should they, I don't make any concession to the

fact that they are men. LAUGHTER

# Time flies # Why can't I

# Wanna set the night on fire # Shine a little light on me... #

APPLAUSE So entertaining to look back on

those clips. Although we all knew he was a giant in broadcasting,

absolutely brilliant at what he did, he did like to do it in his very own

way, no doubt in that. Chris how was it for you because you did produce

him on Terry and Gabby for a while? I tried but it wasn't really like

that. We had the show which ran after his daily radio show for a

year, it started at ten and Terry finished at half nine so he had the

whip across there. His energy levels were amazing, after you come off the

radio, you are deflated for a while, a lot of adrenaline's gone through

your system and you've been focussing a lot. He'd come over,

nice to everybody again, first thing, my assistant now, the frothy

coffee man, he started on that show as a runner and he remembers Terry

every morning coming up to him, you know, the lowest of the low, with

the greatest respect to everybody in TV and going over to him and making

a big fuss of him. He said he made a fuss of him. The more insignificant

everybody else thought you were, the more significant he made you feel,

that kind of thing, do you know what I mean? We had to write Terry's

scripts, you know, the most ah tick loot man on TV without scripts, so

we spent ages writing these scripts. They looked like auto prompts and

Terry, I mean, he was the King -- articulate man. He was the King of

autocue, he could find intonation on it because he'd never read it

beforehand, you know that, and he'd read it perfectly and make it sound

miles better than you ever wrote it. But we had production meetings which

he was very much averse to, because it's like Woody Allen, he eyes the

Best Actors then lets them out, he doesn't tell them how to act

otherwise why would he hire them? We had to have a production meeting for

everyone else on the show, including Gabby and the director. We sat Terry

down, gave him a cup of tea and assembled around him and had this

meeting sort of without him realising. Under the guise of tea

and biscuits? Yes, hoping that some of it might go in, not that it

mattered. One day we put some philosophy on it because he studied

that as a student, so we put something in there to do with

meditation. Before he got to the lines, he'd already read ahead and

this is on telly, then he starts giggling and says, we have some of

this on the way for you and it's like what? ! How did you read it

that far ahead, he remembered what it was and there was no point in

toying with him. The best thing to do with him was make a show as good

as you could before he arrived then leave him to it. That used to happen

with Janet and John, he'd read further ahead, that's why he started

sniggering before anyone could sense what was going to happen. We were in

fits of laughter. He had the greatest laugh in broadcasting. He

did. Set everybody off. He and Peter Alice. Like dastardly and Mutley.

Utterly infectious. If you were driving around the country and

looked in other cars, you could see who was listening to Wogan.

You'd see other people laughing and thinking, you're all listening, yes.

We think you are going to like this next film, Graham, because things

didn't always go to planment some of Sir Terry's guests were reluctant,

confused and even a little bit squiffy.

It can often be quite embarrassing where the people you have just

spoken to refuse to leave the stage. LAUGHTER. I would prefer to do these

things live, prefer to do it warts and all with the untidy edges

shoexct television doesn't have to be honed and polished to a fine

gloss. When the bomb went off I didn't feel anything, I felt I was

swallowing a lot of heat. Hang on, I think somebody has let something off

here. Actors have to be given lines, so I you sometimes have a problem on

chat shows. Do you ever do this stuff in America? Never. Are you

glad to do this one? No. You walked out there like many actorst do on

talk shows with your eyes blank, thinking, I've Government to ad-lib

for about 16 minutes. Does it intimidate you, this type of thing?

No, it's fine. You seem to play an awful lot of those energetic and

slightly loony roles. This is true. Does this reflect your own sunny

personality? Yes. You love doing talk shows don't you? It's terrific.

CHEERING. You just interviewed what was put in front of you, which is a

bit like school dinners. When are you going to get off cooking and

talk about any new book? Whenever you like. Let's do it now. The Duke

of Edinburgh... I thought we were going to talk about carriage

driving. I know you are enormously popular in England and I'm thrilled

to be on your show. I came on this show to sell a book. If I'm talking

to somebody and we get into an embarrassing situation, I want to

get away. It will cost you a Bentley. Do you drive a Bentley? I

don't drive anything, I got banned. You were celebrating some kind of

anniversary. Am I? What am I celebrating. It says on the card

there you are. George Best. And it is at this point I know that George

is out of his mind with drink. You keep bring these managers in and

I've got no idea what they are talking about... They talk a load

of... Please. Is this live? Very, well almost. Although he hasn't got

a drink with him and another he isn't drinking any more, he is

getting progressively drunker as the interview goes on. He panics. Can

you see it in my eyes? Evil has been in control of the control of the

planet. It was the dominating force. Was a shock to discover this at 38?

Actually when I see that again I'm embarrassed about it. David Icke

believes what he believes, however we may think of it. I'm delight

there had is so much laughter in the audience tonight. They are laughing

at you, not with you. Fine. I shouldn't have done that. I'm not

proud of that. I always knew when an interview went well and when it

didn't. You couldn't dwell on it. You had better change to a different

subject. If you mean do I behave in Question Time like I do in private

with four or five friends, the answer is yes. Why didn't I ask it

in that way in the first place? What do the cards say? I don't mind when

they say, what's that mean? You are giving me the wind-up.

APPLAUSE. Wow! Of course, we understand the kind of, the joy of

live. It makes me feel a lot from because offing that. Bruce Willis

seems run of the mill now. The thing is that was live, out there on his

own with a guest. You know what he feels like there Graham. When you

observe his technique and watching him through the years, what did you

learn from him as an interviewer? What is amazing is nothing really

fazes him. You can tell he wishes it was going better, but there's a kind

of carelessness, OK don't talk, or insult me. He rolled with the

punches and that goes back to how incredibly relaxed he was at any

time. And also about the lack of preparation. You can only do that if

you are quite fluid. That's what he was able to do. We very to talk

about the Eurovision handover. His acerbic comments bake infamous.

Brilliant. You you took on the mantle. Lots of people have

commentated on the Eurovision Song Contest over the years but he turned

it into a job. Prior to that it had been nothing. For 0 years he

absolutely made it his own and it will always be his. I've said this

before, when I'm doing Eurovision Terry's voice is in my head. The

first time I sat there in Moscow, when the Eurovision theme came up, I

thought, oh, I've got to speak, I've got to say, welcome to viewers in

the United Kingdom. It was extraordinary. When he had enough of

Eurovision, when he had fallen out of love with it, they asked me, but

I didn't want to do it unless he said it was OK. So messages went

back and forth. Anyway, it came back yes, he is very happy that you do

it. I don't know whether that was true, but I didn't care, because I

wanted to do the job. So I went, OK, I'm sure he said that. Anyway, a

couple of days before I went to Moscow, my phone rang and it was

Terry. It was so unnecessary. He didn't need to do that. It was an

incredibly sweet thing to do. He found my number and called really

just to say good luck, that he would be watching. The only advice he gave

me was not to have a drink before song number nine. So every year,

Terry is in my head the whole way through, but we always think of

Terry at song nine when we pull out the cork. This year will be so

bittersweet, because everyone will be thinking about Terry so much. Can

you shout out, song nine everyone! Absolutely, we will. Sir Terry could

be fairly scathing about his TV career at times but one show he

would never take the Mickey out of was Children In Need. Another night

that will never be the same again, but with him at the helm it became a

TV institution which changed thousands of lives. He raised ?790

million. Now it's time to pay tribute to a very wonderful and warm

human being. But enough of me. If there was a good ship Children In

Need, Sir ter Irish would be the carved figurehead at the front of

it. Sir Terry has presented Children In Need for over 30 years. That's

over 200 hours of live TV, and pure professionalism. Sir Terry Wogan is

quintessentially Children In Need. When you think of Children In Need

you think of Terry. The second I started on the that show he took me

under his wing and guided me through the chaos. He has the smoothest

voice I think I've ever heard. Imagine a sweet with Terry Wogan

running all the way through it. Sir Terry Wogan is the linchpin in

Pudsey's nappy. He's got great energy. You never see him waving

overnight. Hello, I'm gabry Roslin No, I've really lost Terry Wogan. He

might be having a tipple on the side. As far as I know, Terry Wogan

only ever drunk water. This is Terry Wogan, who wants ?250 for his tie?

The show must go on. The old pros bore everyone to death. He gets

dealt curve balls all night. Pretty Smyth, eh? WHITE

dealt curve balls all night. Pretty Smyth, eh? -- pretty smooth, eh? If

you've been watching from the start, and even I haven't been watching

from the start. He is a great host for the evening. He will rock on the

balls of his feet and go, oh, or... Just caught a glimpse of myself on

the television. How have you been able to watch this? Tonight we can

all make it count, really count, for the children. He's passionate about

the charity, about what it stands for. Keep the donations coming in,

please. I hate to nag but we've got to do better this year. All that

fine work that contributed to him becoming Sir Terry. We are glad that

you're here, but show us the money. It's Terry's show. Children In Need

is Terry and Terry is Children In Need. Isn't that heart-warming,

everybody? He's a legend. He's a legend. A legend. Deepest respect

for that man. I've always loved him. He is a national treasure. It is

just great to say, I worked with Terry Wogan. And just hope, when the

day comes when I'm notable to react quickly, when I trip over my feet, I

hope that somebody's going to take me aside and say, time you were

gone. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your efforts. But in the

meantime, I'm going TOG on doing it for as long as I can. It is all very

strange. But I love you. APPLAUSE. ?790 million. He was such

a big part of raising. We are joined by Sue Cook, who presented Children

In Need with Sir Terry. It was 1984 your first year. It was the first

year it was seven hours long, until 2 in the morning. What were your

memories of that year? Of course I was terrified. That goes without

saying. Terry was really calm as usual. We had a run-through the

night before, which Terry didn't come to.

LAUGHTER. It was a loose phrase. We had a script that thick and it had

TBA on every page. We didn't really know what was going to happen over

seven years. Terry didn't rehearse anything. He would stay in bed all

day and come into the studio at 6 o'clock. But we had 20 million

viewers that day, everybody was watching. Very frightening. I know

from experience, he sat here, Sir Terry, instead of Matt on a couple

of occasions and his timings were anybody's guess. But it was hard to

get a word in edge ways. Impossible. They gave me omnibus talk-back,

where you have the earpiece with everything. We had at least six or

eight regions around the UK all doing their little bits. The live

inserts and so on. We needed to know what was going to come up next, what

had broken down. I had seven people's voices in my ear. Terry

sensibly had just one voice, the director. So it was my job as Mrs

Sensible from the current aaffairs department to introduce the films

and make sure that Terry shut his mouth when the news was coming up.

He just wouldn't. I ended up putting my hand over his face. Once I went

and sat on his lap to shut him up. Whenever the going got tough, he wee

is it there and go, Sue. LAUGHTER. He wasn't that generous

then! It was a baptism of fire. But of course everybody has been talking

about how much a great talker he is, but I word with him on the board of

trustees of Children In Need and what struck me was how much of a

good listener he is and how he can react to what he is hearing. That's

the key to Terry. So passion it at his heart of Children In Need. He

would give everything with his time and his generosity. I know you have

worked closely with him on that front.

Yes. Terry thought this business was nonsense. He focussed on it and he

did a very good job but he still thought at the end of the day it was

silly, he thought the world in general was silly, and that was one

of the secrets of his success. But the thing he did take very seriously

was Children In Need. And again, the smaller you were, the more he put

the magnifying glass over you and, if you needed help, you know, that's

what it was all about with Terry because of certain challenges and

situations he came across in his own life. That was the joy of the radio

show because there was this underlying real sort of joy for life

because life is so fragile and, you know, that was all part of that

sophisticated veneer that came across very simply in the mornings.

But actually it was so complicated and what he was brilliant at was

disstilling it all and giving you, giving us the fruits of all that

internal labour and conflict and then he'd just go "and here it is".

Brilliant that he took on board the experiences he had and allowing us

to share. He lived in the UK most his life but he lived in Limerick

and grew up there. Ciara Doherty is there for us now. How is the news

being reported over there in Ireland? There's a genuine

outpouring of sadness here in Ireland. Notwithstanding the fact

that our general election is due to be called tomorrow, every newspaper,

every television station and radio programme has been dominated by Sir

Terry's passing. On Ireland AM, we were inundated with calls and texts

from viewers who wanted to express their sadness. They also wanted to

talk about the pride they had for this Irish immigrant who'd gone to

the UK and had been so successful. They talked about the fact that he

left at the time of the Troubles in the '70s and '80s when English/Irish

relations were fractious and it was a difficult time to be an Irish

person in the UK. Because he had such a platform and so many loyal

listeners and because he was so loved by UK audiences, he perhaps

played a part in changing people's preconceived notions of what an

Irish person really was. In Limerick where he was born and grew up,

there's been two books of condolences open today and people

have queued all day to sign the books. There's talk of erecting a

permanent memorial to Sir Terry in Limerick. Those who signed the book

today, including a 78-year-old man, the first person this morning to

sign the book, spoke of him as an ambassador, a real asset to Ireland

and they said that, that self-deprecating sense of humour you

talk about, the ability to tell a story and spin a good yarn, we like

to think those are quite unique Irish qualities. He embodied all

those, embraced all those, so while we were more than happy to share him

with you in the UK because he was that person, we really felt that he

owned him here in Ireland and we were so glad and so proud today to

call him one of our own. He'll be fondly remembered and very, very

sadly missed. Back to you in London. Thank you, Ciara. Graham, of course,

he was a trailblazer for Irish talent for you yourself? He made it

possible at a time when Irish people left to come here and work in the

buildings or whatever, here was this man, there was Eamonn Andrews and

him and Terry took off. He had that thing about how the Irish accent was

classless. He was the first person who it was spoken about it being an

advantage. He made it possible for anyone with a regional accent really

didn't he? ! Come on Wales! Terry reconnected with his Homeland

and here he is reminiscing about his upbringing.

# Wake up to Wogan on Radio Two. " This is the day I've been dreading,

the inevitable morning when you and I come to the parting of the ways.

After 40 years of talking to myself and to you, the loyal listeners, I

gave up the day job and now I'm heading off to rediscover the

country that made me. We are about to arrive in Limerick.

This is where I was born, where I lived until I was 15. I'm coming

home. Apart from being my birthplace,

Limerick's other claim to fame is that it lies on the mighty sham, the

longest river in the British Isles, running, as it does, all the way up

to the border with Northern Ireland. I cycled back-and-forth over the

bridge every day travelling from home to school and back again and

now, as a Freeman of the City, I can drive a herd of sheep over the self-

same bridge. This was the school, Crescent

College, run by the Jesuits. The building is still standing. Hope the

same can be said of my old school friends!

Look, look at the boys, look. I thought you would be there with open

arms. Jim Sexton, Bobby mull Rooney and Mike Lehy. -- Mulrooney. The

building is still used as a school so I hope it's not changed too much.

I haven't been through these doors in 60 years. The school was run on a

diet of rugby and punishment and this stair case takes me back to the

person that dished out the punishment. Am I right in thinking

that snitch Magnier used to stand up at the top there -- Snitch

McLoughlin. He was Jerry McLoughlin, he was a northerner. A man of severe

aspect. He was. He was very strict and, as you rightly say, we were all

in a certain terror of him. Remember you got a docket when you were

punished for not knowing something. I had the whole morning or afternoon

to think about it. He was the executioner. This is where you used

to go to get your hands knocked off. My Streams could be heard all the

way down O'Connell Street. We are coming down O'Connell Street. See

that thing on the corner... That's the store. The old grocery store.

It's now a clothing store. If you look carefully at this rare old

photograph you will see Leverett's on the far right. He used to carve

the ham about here. He was handling the exotic food stuffs and he was an

expert in the cooking of meats and hams and my dear mother, God rest

her soul, was the great destroyer of meat. She did the incineration

technique of cooking. Aunty May used to say, Rose couldn't boil water.

That's my mother Rose. That's right. The moment I've been waiting for,

Elm Park is where Brian and I were born, where we spent our childhood,

and for the first time since we left Limerick over half a century ago, we

are going home. 18 Elm Park, Limerick, eh. Michael

Wogan used to sing in this bathroom every evening as he shaved, like

Valentines Gone By and he used to deafen everybody within a radius of

100 metres. But he always shaved the night before. Meticulous man. I

learned the Floral Dance because, in this very bathroom, he used to sing

it here. That's right. Baritone

extraordinaire. # All together in the Floral

Dance... # After driving nearly 2,000

kilometres around the old em-Alled isle, I'm back in Dublin -- emerald

isle. We Wogans moved here from Limerick. 12 years later, I made

Helen Joyce the happiest woman on the planet by marrying her.

My life, if you ask me about my life and the meaning of my life, it's

been absolutely wonderful. I've had the most wonderful time, I've had a

lovely family, I've had a lovely wife, I've had success in the

material world, I've done something I wanted to do, I've had an ideal

life. So I can only tell you what it means to me which is happiness.

APPLAUSE As we said, our thoughts are with

Sir Terry's family and his son Mark's sent a letter to you that he

wants you to read. Everybody's reaction has been amazing and lovely

today, if you could deliver the following words on our behalf, we'd

be most appreciative. I and the rest of the family would like to keep our

grief private for now. We as a family though are overwhelmed and

grateful for the love and support displayed for our loving husband,

father and grand matter. He would have been embarrass bid the fuss but

we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you.

We are going to finish with a little bit of music. Sir Terry wasn't just

a broadcaster, he was also very briefly a pop star. It's true. In

1978 after entering listeners with his own rendition of the Floral

Dance, he released the track by popular demand and even appeared on

Top of the Pops. Yes. He released the single with the Brighouse and

Rastrick band who're going to play us out very shortly, they are behind

us. Derek is here. He's been reunited. So pleased you're here

because the last time you did this was 1978 for this is your life?

That's correct. We'll let you get prepped, keep your hands warm

because it's about to happen very shortly. That's about all for

tonight, thank you to Graham, Chris, Alan Sue and Lynn and our thoughts

are with Alan, Mark, Katherine, Terry's children and Helen his wife.

Tomorrow we'll be live from Hebden Bridge where the flooded shoulder of

mutton pub will be our studio for the night. Two thoughts from Sir

Terry, time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. And his

Golden rule of broadcasting was, get on your toes, keep your wits about

you, say good night politely when it's over, go home and enjoy your

dinner. On that night, playing us out, it's the Brighouse and Rastrick

band with the Floral Dance. Good night.

Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90 second update.

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