For the rest of his career. But at Least Myjudgment was right. Very down to earth, very straightforward, very grounded, a wonderful marriage, lovely family. Part of him couldnt believe what what had happened to him. And the other half enjoyed it. And but he never lost sight of his roots, which were pretty well delineated by him on many programmes. Live now to Gloria Hunniford, presenter of Rip Off Britain on bbc one, as well as a myriad of other programmes through the years. Gloria, you knew Michael Parkinson for many of those years. What are your thoughts right now . My thoughts toda are your thoughts right now . My thoughts today are just your thoughts right now . My thoughts today are just sadness, your thoughts right now . My thoughts today are just sadness, because your thoughts right now . My thoughts today are just sadness, because in your thoughts right now . My thoughts today are just sadness, because in a l today are just sadness, because in a weird, naive way, i thought mich
Foundation. he is always caring about people and one step ahead, as to how he would help. itjust demonstrates, not only his talent for a chat show, but his talent for music. we had a great show on radio two on sundays and the luxury he had, because i didn t have the luxury, we had to go by a preset list of music, michael got to choose his music for sunday morning, and he championed people like jamie collum, because he said that that boy was really talented. he championed other people. when you talk to dickie bird about cricket, the extreme passion for cricket was there. and he was a good yorkshireman on top of that. he was an all rounder and he was interested in people. if i have time, i will tell you one other thing. when i say we use to meet in sohoin thing. when i say we use to meet in soho in london every monday, it was only to watch movies. i was doing a chat show at the same time, and we had to watch the film of the person we were interviewing. this time he said to me, who have y