John Inverdale: I agree with Terry Wogan – people either like you or they don’t

John Inverdale’s great gift as a broadcaster is his manner, so breezy and laconic you feel you could be listening to him hold court over a beer at his beloved Esher Rugby Club. It was a skill he acquired from working alongside Terry Wogan, the master of building an audience through shared jokes and reference points, at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. “Terry used to say, ‘Be the same person at the bar as you are in front of the microphone.’ It was a real education. ‘People will like you or they won’