Wogan's twelve
By: Terry Wogan
Publisher: Orion; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780752888439; 9780752891446
Subjects: Diaries; Radio broadcasters; Television personalities
Description: "If it's a detailed description of our young hero's daily doings you're after, I'm afraid this diary or tome (not 'tomb', as one of my listeners called an earlier literary effort) is not for you." "'Detail' requires thought and preparation, and as anybody who has ever heard me on the radio will all too readily tell you, it's not my strong suit. Planning, rehearsal, meticulous attention to every little undotted 'i' or uncrossed 't' are anathema to me. With nary a thought in my head, I open the microphone at 7.30 every morning on BBC Radio 2 and it's devil take the hindmost until we're past the post at half past nine." "Mind you, I do have a little help from my friends the TOGs. Terry's Old Geezers and Gals keep me just this side of sanity with their wit and wisdom, and you'll find plenty of their meanderings here. Along with a few random apercus of my own, as I mark the days of a passing year which, like every other year lately, is passing far too quickly for my liking ..."--Jacket.