While working as a cue-card underling in the 1980s, Christopher Winn struck up a friendship with broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan
‘Almost legible.’ Those were the first words Sir Terry Wogan addressed to me and they came as something of a relief. It was 1985. We were in the greenroom of the BBC television theatre on Shepherd’s Bush Green and I had just completed my first live broadcast of his thrice-weekly TV chat show, as cue-card underling. My task was to write up the questions on large boards and hold them up in his eyeline. Their being legible, if only almost, was fundamental to the job. ...
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