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Michael Parkinson

27 August 2023

  • Michael Parkinson photographed last year at his home in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

    Like Michael Parkinson, I’ve found impostor syndrome hard to shake off

    Letter: Like the late TV presenter, Christine Kent grew up in a working-class family in a South Yorkshire mining village, and has experienced a similar struggle with self-confidence, even in her 80s

25 August 2023

  • Michael Parkinson in 2012

    Michael Parkinson suffered from ‘impostor syndrome’, son says

    Chatshow host also said to have felt ‘working-class guilt’ after growing up in a mining town and finding TV fame

21 August 2023

  • FILE: Sir Michael Parkinson dies aged 88 Sir Michael Parkinson Hosts The Australian Radio Conference<br>FILE: Sir Michael Parkinson dies aged 88 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 09: Television personality Sir Michael Parkinson poses at The Australian Radio Conference on October 9, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mike Flokis/Getty Images)

    Letter: Sir Michael Parkinson obituary

    Quentin Falk writes: Parky would generously keep me on in the studio to enjoy some shared time with his star guests

20 August 2023

  • Peter Hain

    Michael Parkinson was a radical anti-racist as well as a national treasure

    Peter Hain
    He and John Arlott led the press campaign against the sordid deal to exclude Basil D’Oliveira from playing for England in South Africa

18 August 2023

  • Sir Michael Parkinson death<br>File photo dated 24/02/2014 of chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson, who has died at the age of 88. Issue date: Thursday August 17, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story DEATH Parkinson. Photo credit should read: Parkinson Productions/PA Wire

    Brief letters
    Michael Parkinson was on the right side of history

    Brief letters: Celebrating Parkinson | Technology predictions | Benefits or bank holiday? | Dead nice delicacies | A-level jumping

17 August 2023

  • Fiona Sturges

    In an age of shallow celebrity interviews, a tribute to Michael Parkinson – master of the form

    Fiona Sturges
  • ‘The ultimate talkshow host’ … Michael Parkinson.

    ‘I still smile when I think of him and that pesky emu’: your favourite memories of Michael Parkinson

  • Television Presenter Michael Parkinson.<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock (3817316a) Television Presenter Michael Parkinson. Television Presenter Michael Parkinson.

    Sir Michael Parkinson obituary

  • Michael Parkinson and Meg Ryan

    Michael Parkinson’s most memorable TV moments – from Emu to Meg Ryan

  • A look back at the TV career of chatshow host Michael Parkinson – video

  • An all-time great: how Michael Parkinson changed British television

  • Share your tributes and memories of Michael Parkinson

  • Michael Parkinson – a life in pictures

  • Michael Parkinson, broadcaster and talkshow host, dies aged 88

January 2023

  • Black and white photo of a boy watching TV

    ‘Effectively a tool of Satan’: how the UK authorities were utterly terrified by TV

  • Francis Wilson, Debbie Rix, David Icke, Nick Ross, Selina Scott and Frank Bough

    ‘God knows how we got on air!’ 40 glorious, disastrous years of breakfast TV

December 2021

  • Wentworth Golf Course Aerial Shoot<br>VIRGINIA WATER, ENGLAND - MAY 14: A view of the the par 4, 1st hole with the clubhouse complex in the foreground on the recently renovated West Course at the Wentworth Club venue for the 2010 BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth on May 14, 2010 in Virginia Water, England. (Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images)

    The Audio Long Read
    Best long reads of 2021: The rich vs the very, very rich: the Wentworth golf club rebellion – podcast

    When a Chinese billionaire bought one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs in 2015, dentists and estate agents were confronted with the unsentimental force of globalised capital

August 2021

  • Parkinson at 50.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Parkinson’s finest chat show moments

    The veteran host looks back through 50 years of celebrity interviews in a new documentary. Plus: Bettany Hughes’ Treasures Of The World. Here’s what to watch this evening

July 2021

  • Michael Parkinson Press publicity portrait supplied by PR

    Sunday with Michael Parkinson: ‘If I move, it’s down to the cricket pitch’

    The television presenter tells Samantha Rea about his perfect lazy days: reading the papers, watching soap operas, listening to jazz

June 2021

  • Michael Parkinson

    Teenage kicks
    Michael Parkinson: ‘I dreamed of living with Ingrid Bergman near Barnsley FC’

    The chatshow presenter and jazz DJ recalls crushes on screen icons, disappointment on the cricket field – and the first time he heard Louis Armstrong
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