Is It Me? : An Autobiography

Wogan, Terry

ISBN 10: 0563534222 / ISBN 13: 9780563534228

Published by BBC Books, 2001

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Synopsis:

Terry Wogan is one of Britains best-loved radio and television celebrities witty, charming and relaxed and has undoubtedly captured the nations heart. Here, Terry tells his life story from his beginnings as a young Limerick boy to his incredible success as an enduring celebrity with shows such as Wogan and The Eurovision Song Contest. Is It Me? (now available in B-format pbk) is written in Terrys own inimitable style, with self-deprecating humour and a wry take on everyday life. The story is a delightfully observed, light-hearted journey through Terrys personal and professional lives. After reluctantly starting his career in banking, Terry escaped to make a sucessful break into broadcasting with RTE. Fronting Children in Need, Wogan and The Eurovision Song Contest and collecting millions of listeners to his morning BBC 2 radio show, Wake Up To Wogan, he is now the most prolific and popular presenter at the BBC. 'I am sure it's a challenging read' Sir David Frost 'I don't remember him' Jimmy Young

Review: From life with Ma and Da in County Limerick, with weekly packages of books, magazines and comics from his Auntie May filling his fertile brain with adventures and humour, Michael Terence Wogan reached the heights of broadcasting via the Royal Bank of Ireland and Radio Eirann and stayed there.

Displeasure in his working life seems minimal, though the BBC replacing him with the doomed early evening soap, Eldorado still chafes. Contented in family life with wife and three children, he speaks thoughtfully of its sad events: the death of his parents, and the loss of his firstborn.

On referring to the mystery that occasions success in show business he says, without rancour, "Nobody knows anything in our business which is what my friend Sir John Birt couldn't accept. An engineer by training he never grasped the essential imponderability of our game. He thought the inexactitude, unpredictability of public taste could be ironed out by reason, procedures, good management and focus groups--laudable but a waste of time."

Of his own competence he confesses, "I sit before the microphone every morning speechless, without an idea with which to bless myself". No such worries in this articulate, informative and most engaging reading. --Lyn Took

Bibliographic Details

Title: Is It Me? : An Autobiography
Publisher: BBC Books
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Unknown Binding
Condition: Used; Good