RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted January 31, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2016 Quite shocked to hear this announced this morning. More details will emerge during the day. RIP Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giles Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Goo Heavens.... Very sorry to hear this. He's been a huge part of our lives for so long, and such a lovely character. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 It's getting hard keeping up with the Obits lately. He will be missed, he had such a genial laid back Irish raconteuring style. RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted January 31, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2016 This is dreadful news, the man that made Eurovision worth watching on account of his commentary (how many other music shows are only worth watching for the commentary?!) and was the voice many of us woke up to for a long time along with his other activities. I stopped listening to Radio 2's breakfast show when he moved on, to compare the ego driven asinine drivel of his replacement with Terry Wogan's show was depressing. RIP Terry, you'll be missed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyram Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 So shocked when I saw the title of this thread I had to check the BBC news website to make sure it was true. He was such a good, easy going presenter on tv and radio and always seemed do likeable. Children in need will never be the same again. RIP Sir Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold griffgriff Posted January 31, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2016 Cancer again... something more needs to be done. RIP Terry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew s Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 A sad loss to radio and tv broadcasting. RIP Sir Terry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 I've done some chortling...never looked good though, a bloke on his own in a car laughing inanely...over the years listening to sketches such as 'Janet & John' on his Radio 2 show. Well done Terry, you gave a lot of pleasure to many....your charity work was inspirational too. R.I.P. Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted January 31, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2016 RIP Terry. I wasn't a great fan, but certainly his time on TV and radio through the last six five decades means he's yet another major presence around my life gone. Re cancer and something needing to be done, there have been and still are lots of advances going on, but if it isn't caught soon enough then it's hard to treat. Some kind of advance in (very) early detection is probably one of the main things needed now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted January 31, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2016 An icon to broadcasting to my generation.Very witty and amiable and also very good at his jobs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeoford Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 This is such sad, sad news. I can't believe it. As a 50 odd year old, he was my morning staple listening throughout my 1970s school years and then I listened to him when travelling to work throughout the 90s/2000s. His gentle fun, mocking (mainly of himself) and Janet & John literally had me crying laughing. Such a fantastic person and radio presenter. Breakfast radio has been lost since you left. You are a true great Terry I feel so, so sad today but thank you. Dave S Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wherry Lines Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 A sad day indeed. I grew up listening to Sir Terry. Indeed, he was the inspiration behind me studying radio broadcasting at university nearly 10 years ago. Rest in peace, Sir Terry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 I wasn't a tremendous fan but I would always listen if he happened to be on. The sheer durability of his relaxed, gently mocking style speaks for itself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Very sad news. RIP Terry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Very sad news, I almost thought it was a hoax when it popped up on a newsfeed page this morning. Happy memories of hearing his dulcet tones wafting out of my Gran's old radiogram in the early '70s, right through the 'who shot JR?' laughter of the early '80s and beyond.... the term 'national treasure' is very much overused these days but our Tel was worthy of the name and then some. Have a laugh on us Tel while you're up there with Jimmy Young! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nile_Griffith Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 A real loss. Someone who rather like one of my hero's the late Ronnie Barker, could use the english language to inform and entertain with almost effortless ease. Not sure that there are many left like him with the talent and skill to do the same. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pacific231G Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 This is very sad news. I was never a fan of his radio show but came across him professionally a few times and it was very obvious that he was the same warm and decent human being all the time, not just when he was performing. One incident that really stuck in my mind was back in the early 1980s when I was directing an extended filmed interview with him for BBC South. We'd come up to London and were using a small TV studio in the basement of Broadcasting House after he'd come off-air from his radio programme. About half way through, the assistant cameraman managed to drop one of the exposed film tins which of course came open so was ruined. That meant re-filming a whole section of the interview and there was some time pressure but where certain other "stars" who I won't name would have made their irritation abundantly clear, Terry Wogan was far more concerned to reassure the hapless assistant who was obviously feeling pretty bad. Another sad loss RIP Sir Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Having gravitated from Radio Caroline to Radio 1, I moved to Radio 2 long-term as be-suits my age and Terry Wogan's voice was a way of life in a morning while I worked. 'Mulligans Tyre's' had been played several times before I realised it was Mul-of-Mintyre. The inner chuckle used to make my ribs ache. Rest in peace Sir Terry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted January 31, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2016 My old school once treated a handful of pupils to tickets to sit in the studio of the Wogan chat show during 1986-1987 as a reward for outstanding contributions to school life. It was a deaf school I went to so barely any of these "lucky" people were able to hear well enough to follow the show! My old school's idea of a treat! Condolences to Sir Terry's family. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Oh no! Not the grand Togmeister himself... Happy to admit that I was never happier listening to his genial wit on the Radio 2 breakfast show in my formative years (when alternative stations would have been regarded as more 'cool'). From sparring with Jimmy Young through to the corpsing on 'Janet & John'. And would Children in Need have raised quite so much over the years without him expertly treading the fine line between compassion and humour? Very sad day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ressaldar Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Sad news indeed. I used to look forward to the banter between Terry and Ray Moore in the hand over between their programmes at 07.30 whilst driving up to Chiswick from Farnham each morning - certainly made the traffic jams bearable. RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted January 31, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2016 It is very, very sad news indeed about Sir Tel. I found him hilarious in Terry & Masons Great Food Trip All a bit too quick! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Road Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Spouted absolute rubbish on his radio show but got us all up in the morning and off to work on time . Rip Terry . One I can actually say I did miss when he retired from radio two . M b Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 I never liked his TV chat show and that kind of coloured my view of him as a presenter but I always thought him a thoroughly decent guy, very genial and genuine, and his Eurovision presentation style hit just the right note. Another one who was with us for much of our lives. RIP Sir Terry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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