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
way chemistry
There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.
ask
It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.
help recognized students
Students recognized that this would help them; we didn't have to tell them.
bloody comedian good lovely
a bloody good comedian and a lovely man.
hope requests
It'll be good. You put in your requests and hope that one day he'll say yes.
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.
came fame man uneasy
He was very shy, a man uneasy with the fame that came with the job.
thinking would-be streets
I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.
men years married
Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.
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.