Wonderful career. Wonderful man.

It’s only January and we’ve already lost three cultural icons. David Bowie, Alan Rickman and now Terry Wogan. I cannot remember a time when Wogan was not on TV or radio. He became a national treasure (before the phrase existed) on the Radio 2 Breakfast show in the 1970s, then in the 1980s presented Wogan, a live chat show, every weekday evening on BBC1. In a stroke of genius, Radio 2 brought him back to present the Breakfast Show from 1993 until 2009. I worked with him just once and he was exactly as you’d want him to be. Warm, kind and witty, the man a whole nation regarded as their friend. His fifty-year career was is proof that, very occasionally, nice talented people do achieve the success they so richly deserve. He even had a Top Five hit with this. Especially poignant when you consider who else did too.