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Why Leeds United's late Jack Charlton and Barnsley-born Michael Parkinson make me nostalgic - Anthony Clavane


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Strangely, of all those moments, the one which made me feel most nostalgic was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it clip from the early 1970s.
“I’m a destroyer, a batterer, a fouler,” he tells the chat show host.
The audience applaud. “What are you all clapping for?” he responds, with that unmistakable glint in his eye.
The chat show host was, of course, Michael Parkinson. Another affable, plain-speaking, tell-it-how-it-is, working-class-made-good northerner.
Both men were born into mining backgrounds in 1935 and both sprang to fame in an age of increasing social mobility.
As Parkinson’s son Mike said in an interview last year: “He came from a working-class background – he left school with two O levels. And to drive himself by his own ability through national newspapers, full of Oxbridge graduates, and get into television. He was part of that generation that kicked over the barricades.” ....

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Hello, boomers' radio. How did you end up in the culture wars?


Hello, boomers’ radio. How did you end up in the culture wars?
Alex Clark
It was a rain-sodden Friday night at the end of another week of lockdown ennui and anxiety; what could be more soothing than pottering about, aperitif on the go, listening to some decent tunes? And hark! A brand new radio station to ring the changes, one promising not merely a schedule brimming with aural treats but one carefully curated to reflect the tastes, the sensibilities and the vitality of an entire generation.
Boom Radio, launched last week on Valentine’s Day, set its stall out in uncompromising fashion, with a poem, an Ode to Boomers that is part mild grievance (“You are the original influencer”, it insists, there when “music was fearless and came from the heart”, when live performances were more than “‘an experience’ to film on your phone”) and part rallying cry to the postwar babies who, it says, changed the world and are still running “at full s ....

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