Terry Wogan

Sir Michael Terence "Terry" Wogan, KBE DL (born 3 August 1938) is an Irish radio and television broadcaster who has worked for the BBC in the United Kingdom for most of his career. Before he retired from his weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan on BBC Radio 2 in 2009, it had eight million regular listeners, making him the most listened-to radio broadcaster in Europe. Wogan began his career at Raidió Teilifís Éireann where he presented shows such as Jackpot in the 1960s. Wogan also got involved in the music career by releasing a few singles and one album in 1978 and was granted an honorary knighthood as an Irish citizen but after obtaining dual British-Irish citizenship in 2005, this was automatically converted to a full knighthood.

Links To Peel
Peel and Wogan both had shows that were next to each other on BBC Radio One in the early 70's, where they would chat to each other during intervals. Wogan was invited for Peel's wedding with Sheila in 1974, however the two started to distance each other through the years, when Peel claimed that Wogan became increasingly distant. On many occasions, Peel would make sarcastic comments on Wogan, such as one made on 07 August 1982:


 *  'By dint of skilful engineering and a measure, I must confess, of unscrupulousness, we've managed to keep Gloria Hunniford out of this particular programme, but the price we had to pay was Terry Wogan.'

Peel on his 07 December 1983 show criticised the music played on the charts and mentioned it was dismal and no different to Wogan's BBC Radio 2 show.

On the 20th anniversary of BBC Radio One in 1987, Wogan invited Peel and Tony Blackburn on his television show for a special edition of Wogan called Wogan: 20 Years of Radio 1 Special, where both talked about their work on the station.

As a fan of the Eurovision Song Contest, Peel made an appearance on A Song For Europe in 2003, where he talked about his love for the competition.