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Sir terry wogan s 10 best running gags, from janet and john to eurovision. Sir terry wogan reads a brilliant janet and john story. Sir terry wogan reads janet and john story on bbc radio 2. Terry was married to his wife helen for over 50 years. When janet and john go to the big department store, janet says, im going to. Further volumes appeared later, and the series became a sales success in the 1950s and 60s, both in the uk and in new zealand. The commercial is now obsolete, but the downloads are now available until. I personally learned to read via the pedantic pages of janet and john books.

A key point of the janet and john stories is the way that terry wogan was. Terry wogan the eurovision king never mind the buzzcocks. The original janet and john books, written by rona munro, helped parents of the 1950s and 1960s to teach their children to read. Sir terry wogans 10 best running gags, from janet and. The complete radio 2 janet and john marsh stories as told by terry wogan by kevin joslin 20091015 by kevin joslin 1 jan 1753 4. Terry wogan reads janet and john the post office youtube. Sir terry wogans 10 best running gags, from janet and john to. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Janet and john is a series of early reading books for children, originally published in the uk by. I will never be able to read these books the same way again. By the 1970s, the books were considered outdated, and.

The radio broadcaster terry wogan regularly satirised the books during the 1990s on his bbc radio 2 show wake up to wogan by reading out. The radio 2 janet and john stories by paul walters, terry wogan. The janet and john narrations are mirthful mimics of the tempo of early reader school system books called janet and john from at least the early 1960s. Janet and john the radio stories edited entry h2g2. Together, they had four children and five grandchildren, and. Children forced to listen to the show on the way to school were known as tygs.

I personally learned to read via the pedantic pages of janet and john books through which the use of various verbs abd adverbs were steucturedly introduced. If you would like a copy of the book the hitchhikers guide to the. The janet and john readings, which started after wogan returned to hosting the breakfast show on radio 2 in 1993, come from a long tradition of british innuendo. Terry wogan had millions of listeners in hysterics with his innuendofilled version of the janet and john childrens stories. Janet and john is a series of early reading books for children, originally published in the uk by james nisbet and co in four volumes in 194950, and one of the first to make use of the look and say approach.