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
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a bloody good comedian and a lovely man.
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He was hugely talented and had a regard for the written word. He had a writer's judgement about what did and didn't work. He was not invented by television. He was the finished article when he appeared on television.
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It'll be good. You put in your requests and hope that one day he'll say yes.
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He's our biggest repository of useless knowledge. National Icon, National Treasure, and National Dustbin.
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If the music industry has decided I'm influential, then that's their business, ... They tell me that's the case, but I think it would ruin an innocent mind if I were aware of that.
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Students recognized that this would help them; we didn't have to tell them.
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I've been trying to get sober for the last four years, and I keep falling off and I keep getting back on,
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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.
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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.
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In my view a jazz musician is a great musician
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I'm very fond of piano players.