Terry Waite - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Waite was the subject of a song by the British post-punk group, The Fall, in 1986, entitled Terry Waite Sez.
  • Before he was taken hostage, the satirical programme, Spitting Image, featured a puppet of Waite returning from his foreign trips laden with duty-free goods which he would bring surreptitiously to an eagerly waiting Robert Runcie.
  • The term Terry is synonymous with the method of cutting a straight line into the back of someone’s hair on the nape of the neck. This is due to the rhyming slang Terry Waite - Straight.
  • Robin Soans used an interview with Waite as a character for his verbatim-style play Talking to Terrorists. The interview is used as the dialogue for the character, Archbishop's Envoy.
  • Chris Ryans book, Strike Back, centred the first part of the book's plot around an SAS raid on a site where Terry Waite was being held in an attempt to free him and the two other hostages.

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