Terry Wogan

Biography

Sir Michael Terence Wogan was a renowned Irish radio and television broadcaster who worked for the BBC in Britain for most of his career. He hosted the popular BBC Radio 2 weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan, drawing an estimated eight million listeners between 1993 and his semi-retirement in 2009. A leading media personality in Ireland and Britain, Wogan was celebrated as a "national treasure" for his work on television shows like Wogan, Children in Need, and the Eurovision Song Contest.