- Born
- Birth nameTerence Christian
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Terry Christian was born on May 8, 1960 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Membrane (1983), Deadtime (2012) and Cutting It (2002).
- Distinctive Mancunian accent
- He was the winner of the Sony Radio Award in the Best Specialist Music category in 1985 and 1986 for his show on BBC Radio Derby called Barbed Wireless.
- He was dubbed the "low budget voice" of television by Jonathan Ross.
- He is a big fan of The Smiths and Echo & The Bunnymen.
- He claims that he was turned down for a job presenting on BBC Radio 1 because he sounded too much like Andy Kershaw.
- He had a regular column on youth issues and politics for the Derby Evening Telegraph between 1983-1987.
- I mean, everybody goes on about how great The Tube (1982) was. All I remember about it was hours and hours of people like fucking Phil Collins.
- [on the 1980s] I thought the music was a bit rubbish. I liked The Smiths. I thought New Order were good. A few good bands, some good jazz-funk around. Other than that, all I ever think of is devastation and Margaret Thatcher. The only reason we didn't have a revolution was because of the fashions. You know, pixie boots. You can't storm the Winter Palace in them. And those big shoulders, you'd never get through the doors would you?
- [on Echo & The Bunnymen] Good band. At one time they could have been as big as U2.
- My mum, God rest her soul, was a massive Freddie Mercury fan, and every now and then she'd ask me the same question, she'd say "Was he gay?", and I'd say "Yes, mum, he was", and then she'd go "Mind you, he was a funny looking ****, weren't he?" as if to say he was too ugly to get a woman. I'm just saying how my mum saw it. She thought he had a lovely singing voice though.
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