Attenborough,who was then controller of the channel, responded to Wogan’s application explaining the station already had an Irish presenterTerry Wogan may have gone on to become one of the most recognised voices on British radio, and but his career could have got off to a very different start whether another BBC legend hadn’t been set off by the young broadcaster’s Irish accent.
Letters from the BBC archive dug up by the Radio Times reveal that Sir David Attenborough turned down a request from Wogan for a job on BBC2 in 1965 because the channel,which had only been running for a year, already had a presenter who was “also from Dublin”.
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Source: theguardian.com