hello, welcome to bbc news now. we start here in the uk where tributes have been paid to the tv talk show host and journalist sir michael parkinson. his family said he died peacefully at home. he was 88. sir michael interviewed hundreds of the world s top stars of entertainment and sport including muhamed ali, orson wells and meg ryan. david sillito looks back at his life. don t you get fed up of each other? oh, yes, yes. i call him golden balls, you know, now. - did you ever say, you dirty rat? never. jimmy cagney. orson welles. jimmy stewart. these were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. the fact is that you re a crowd puller and frazier s not, is he? why is that? well, number one, he s ugly.
we re were your done a levels, what were your subjects and did you get the results politics, history and soakology and i politics, history and soakology and | -ot politics, history and soakology and i got what sociology and i got what i got what sociology and i got what i i got what sociology and i got what i wanted. hello, i m lucy hockings, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. we start here in the uk, where tributes have been paid to the tv talk show host and journalist sir michael parkinson. in a statement, his family said he died peacefully at home. he was 88. sir michael interviewed hundreds of the world s top stars of entertainment and sport including muhamed ali, orson wells and james cagney. david sillito looks back at his life. don t you get fed up of each other? oh, yes, yes. i call him golden- balls, you know, now. did you ever say, you dirty rat?
he brought two separate things together, there was like the showbiz interview, they had been around for years, where people came and then went away and the other was a probing interview. he had the journalistic background and the showbiz instinct and he brought them together. i m old enough to remember the 70s shows and you didn t know what would happen. even muhammad ali didn t know what was going to happen. he was promoting a soft drink in britain. they gave the entire show to him, an hour, one of the most riveting hours of television that you will ever see. extraordinary. these moments. and it was a time when there was fewer prs, fewer people saying what you could and couldn t ask, it was free form and couldn t ask, it was free form and sometimes the programme drifted past its schedule, so there was that
his interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. he has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. he cannot talk. and who told him he could sing? but of all those 2000 or so guests, one always haunted him. i interviewed everybody from henry kissinger to billy connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, all those people. and i m only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. he s not aggresive! rod hull and emu rather punctured the suave tv persona. i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a yorkshire miner. my generation was the first
hello and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news here in the uk where tributes have been paid to the tv talk show host and journalist sir michael parkinson. in a statement, his family said he died peacefully at home. he was 88. sir michael interviewed hundreds of the world s top stars of entertainment and sport including muhamed ali, orson wells and fred astair. the bbc director general tim davie called him the king of the chat show . david sillito looks back at his life. don t you get fed up of each other? oh, yes, yes. i call him golden- balls, you know, now. did you ever say, you dirty rat? never. jimmy cagney.