Rest In Peace Michael Parkinson

Michael Parkinson, the broadcaster best known for hosting the talkshow Parkinson from 1971 to 2007, has died aged 88.

A statement from his family says: “After a brief illness Sir Michael Parkinson passed away peacefully at home last night in the company of his family.”

“The family request that they are given privacy and time to grieve.”

Parkinson began his career in print journalism, working for local papers based near his hometown of Barnsley before becoming a feature writer at the Manchester Guardian and then at the Daily Express in London.

After a stint in the Army, seeing active service in Egypt during the Suez Crisis as a British Army press liaison officer, Parkinson moved into television. He worked for Granada Television in the 1960s as a current affairs reporter and presented the station’s late-night film review programme, Cinema, from 1969.

(From The Guardian)
 
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