Sir Michael Parkinson, CBE, is one of the greatest journalists and most influential entertainers of our time.
On Screen
Parkinson show 1971 -1982 and 1998 – 2007
Interviewees include Muhammad Ali, Orsen Wells, Meg Ryan, Ian Thorpe, Elton John, Paul McCarthy, Kevin Spacey, Will Smith, John Wayne, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, Tony Blair, David Beckham, Madonna, Sir Michael Caine, Joanna Lumley, Billy Connoll, Dame Edna Everage and many more.
Off Screen
President of the Sports Journalists’ Association of Great Britain since 2005.
Devoted patron and supporter of multiple charitable causes including the Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society, Children with AIDS, Comic Relief, Hauser Bears, National Osteoporosis Society, Sport Relief and
Honours and Awards
In 1998, Michael won awards for his work in three different branches of the media – a tremendously unique accomplishment – by winning a Sony Radio Award for Parkinson’s Sunday Supplement as well as being named Sports Writer of the Year at the Press Gazette British Press Awards and Media Personality of the Year by the Variety Club.
Radio Times crowned Michael the UK’s ‘King of Chat’ in 2003.
4 x BAFTA, The National Television Award for Most Popular Talk Show
Parkinson voted Top Ten in British Film Institute poll of the Hundred Greatest Television Programmes of all time.
Conferred a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000, and a Knights Bachelor in 2008, for services to Broadcasting.
