Michael Parkinson
Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Parkinson, CBEis an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He is best known for presenting his long-running television talk show, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007, as well as other talk shows and programmes both in the UK and internationally. He is also known as a radio broadcaster. He has been described by The Guardian as "the great British talkshow host"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth28 March 1935
player piano
I'm very fond of piano players.
views musician jazz
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician
thinking would-be streets
I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.
thinking want awful
For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.
clever smart boys
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?
years pay feels
Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.
memories inspiration brass-bands
I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.
stars real fighting
When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.
halloween past house
No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
way chemistry
There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.