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 that actually challenged the assumption that if you re born into a mining family, you followed your dad s footsteps down to the pit. his escape was journalism, which took him to granada tv. ladies and gentlemen, miss shirley maclaine. and then, in 1971, the parkinson show. i hope i can get away with this, it s a beauty. it was a programme that could transfor
since she started. she has built an incredible culture in the camp and is incredibly calm. that translates through to the players and she is a brilliant tactician is well. we have seen how she s moved formations from one to another and initially transformed this team in the tournament. in the premier league, michael olise s move to chelsea looked like a done deal, but it turns out he ll be staying in south london. the winger has signed a new four year deal with crystal palace just two days on from chelsea reportedly activating olise s release clause of £35 million. the frenchmanjoined from reading on a five year deal in 2021, but was in chelsea s youth system before leaving aged 1a. meanwhile, arsenal manager mikel arteta insists he doesn t have a number one goalkeeper for the new season. aaron ramsdale has been the club s first choice, but they signed david raya from brentford this week on a season long loan. is there a number one? in any position. is there a number one?
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? number one, he s ugly. 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, to all those people. and i m only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. it s not a question. 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 that actually challenged the assumption that if you are born into a mining family, you followed your dad s foo
good evening. one of the biggest names in british television, sir michael parkinson, has died at the age of 88. in a career spanning seven decades, he interviewed some of the world s greatest stars on his tv chat show, including the legendary boxer muhammad ali, sir eltonjohn and george michael. and damejudi dench. the bbc s director general tim davie described sir michael as truly one of a kind and 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. 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. his interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. he has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. he cannot talk. and who told him he could sin