Terry Christian
| Terry Christian | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Terence Christian 8 May 1960 Old Trafford, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Broadcaster |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Terence "Terry" Christian (born 8 May 1960) is a multi-award winning TV, radio presenter and journalist whose credits include Channel 4's late night Youth Entertainment show The Word and ITV1 moral issues talk show It's My Life. He also presented two series of Turn On Terry with regular guest Anthony H Wilson and numerous other programmes for ITV, MTV, VH1, Channel 4 as well as a variety of different local and national radio programmes on stations including Radio 4, BBC6 Music, Talksport, Century Radio, Key 103, Signal and BBC's Radio Derby and Manchester.
Christian was born and grew up in Old Trafford with five brothers and sisters and Irish parents from Dublin: Daniel Christian and Margaret Christian (née Cullen) . He was educated at St. Alphonsus Primary School, Ayres Road, Old Trafford and St Bede's College, Manchester where one of his closest friends was John Maher who would later find some fame with Buzzcocks. His father was a Transport and General Workers' Union shop steward at Esso in Trafford Park. He attended Thames Polytechnic in London and has a Higher National Diploma in Applied Biology specialising in microbiology.
He first appeared on TV in 1981 with other unemployed youngsters from inner city areas of Manchester on Devil's Advocate, a Granada Television programme made for ITV and presented by Gus Macdonald. The show was made in reaction to the Scarman report which looked into the causes of that summer's riots in Moss Side in Manchester, Toxteth in Liverpool, Brixton in London, Handsworth in Birmingham and St Pauls in Bristol. Amongst others on Devil's Advocate was Johnny Marr of the Smiths. As a result of his appearances on the programme, Christian was offered his own radio show on BBC Radio Derby called Barbed Wireless.
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