Book description
Written in a style familiar to his millions of listeners, rich with
warmth and irony, MUSTN'T GRUMBLE is Terry's definitive autobiography.
Not only does he introduce the reader to post-Emergency Ireland, his
chain-smoking maiden aunts, his quick-witted mother and hard-working
father and the (not so) Christian Fathers who tried to knock his hands
off, he explains how he's managed to avoid a hard day's work from
childhood to knighthood, and entertained a few million people along the way.
Terry talks in full about his past 35 years with the BBC: his hugely
popular Radio 2 show, his TV shows WOGAN (NOW & THEN) and BLANKETY
BLANK, the Eurovision Song Contest, working on the BBC's Children in
Need programmes, and where he learnt to breakdance so brilliantly. It is
the autobiography his fans - and TOGs - have been waiting for: fresh,
honest, a real craic and completely the same ... but different. Sir
Terry Wogan KBE was born in Limerick. After leaving college he went into
banking and five years later joined RTE as a newsreader/announcer. 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 and it's been downhill since then. Terry's
extensive television credits include his live chat show series WOGAN,
THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST, COME DANCING and BLANKETY BLANK, to name
but a few. In 1993 Terry rejoined Radio 2 to present WAKE UP TO WOGAN,
the most listened to breakfast show in the UK. In a moment of weakness,
the Queen honoured him with a knighthood in 2005. He is married to the
sainted Lady Helen, the present Mrs Wogan, and has two sons and a
daughter.
