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Thread #123699   Message #2727245
Posted By: Betsy
20-Sep-09 - 09:03 AM
Thread Name: Terry Wogan plays folk!
Subject: RE: Terry Wogan plays folk!
Christy Moore was on Wogan's TV shows at time or two - I believe they both came through the ranks of Irish banking (would you believe?) , but whether the same bank I know not.
Wogan knew his place in the BBC and his listener-base and didn't seem take unreasonable risks to allienate the majority of his listeners, who basically just wanted easy listening popular music, but I can imagine that he was asked on occasions by his closer friends , why don't you put a bit of the ould Irish in your programme . I can't think where I was working, but it was one of those places where lots of people had portable radios,and Wogan was the preferred listening. He insisted on playing (it seemed on a daily basis for months), a song something of the like "Do you want your ould lobby washing down" , which drove me fucking nuts.