Terry Wogan 1938-2016: ‘I prefer not to think of the Grim Reaper’

“It’s a possibility when I lie on me deathbed that I’ll say a few prayers, just in case.”

With that usual twinkle in the eye, that was Terry Wogan’s response when I broached the topics of death and health with him.

He had just finished his morning BBC radio programme, having risen at 5.30am. And finding time for me and my notebook was not a bother on him. As we walked from the BBC building in Shepherd’s Bush to a nearby hotel, a man of the streets clutching a bottle of alcohol shouted: “Hi, Terry.”