Terry Wogan: I make a mean martini

The broadcaster admits hes not much of a cook but can make a cocktail strong enough to trot a mouse across it

Terry Wogan was never much of a lunch guy during a broadcasting career that spanned half a century and continues, on a smaller scale, to this day. Colleagues, especially producers, would rock up at 10am, head out again at midday and not be seen for the rest of the day. But that was not his style at all. If he was doing a TV show in the evening, a big lunch would leave him somnolent; if hed just recorded his breakfast radio programme, then hed want to scamper home to Buckinghamshire.

The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family, he says. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. Its a cocktail and dinner. I know Im a tired old geezer, but there you are.