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Parky: My Autobiography: A Full and Funny Life [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 400 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 238x162x38 mm, kaal: 700 g, 4 colour & mono picture sections
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2008
  • Kirjastus: Hodder & Stoughton
  • ISBN-10: 034096166X
  • ISBN-13: 9780340961667
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 400 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 238x162x38 mm, kaal: 700 g, 4 colour & mono picture sections
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2008
  • Kirjastus: Hodder & Stoughton
  • ISBN-10: 034096166X
  • ISBN-13: 9780340961667
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The Sunday Times Bestseller

All Michael Parkinson really wanted to do was play cricket for Yorkshire and England. However, he soon realised that to be paid to watch films, football and cricket would be the best way to spend life, so he became a journalist.

Television beckoned and for three decades Parkinson interviewed the movers and shakers of the late twentieth century, making his television programme the must-see event of the week. In singing with Bing Crosby, dancing with Billy Connolly, flirting with Miss Piggy and sparring with Muhammad Ali, Parkinson proved himself one of the most engaging and durable hosts in both Britain and Australia.

In Parky he recalls a full life with honesty, insight and humour.

Praise for Parky:

'Nothing less than riveting.' Mirror 'Joyous' Telegraph 'Wonderfully readable' Daily Mail 'One of the finest broadcasters of any era' Guardian

Arvustused

I recommend it heavily. It's a wonderful book * Melvyn Bragg * Parky's book is a joyous, breezy read, as much for the improbability of his early escapades as for his backstage anecdotes about the stars. It is also beautifully written * Daily Telegraph * The early chapters about his childhood and early career ... are disarmingly modest and offer a proper glimpse into another world * Independent * Crisp and detailed prose ... with an especially impressive account of a pre-second world war childhood in the north * Mark Lawson, Guardian * Funny and self-deprecating and just as laid-back as he is on camera * Boyd Tonkin, Independent * This autobiography is just like an extended edition of a brilliant Parkinson on television - engrossing and entertaining * Irish Times *

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The long-awaited autobiography of one of Britain's national icons.
Acknowledgements ix
Photographic Acknowledgements x
Preface - The Choice xi
Pit Village
1(8)
Jack's Lad
9(7)
Cudworth, Yorkshire and England
16(5)
The Noble Art of Beach Cricket
21(10)
Grammar School Sentence
31(7)
Junior Reporter
38(8)
All That Jazz
46(7)
Private Parkinson
53(11)
A Cricketing Guinea Pig
64(6)
Proper Journalists Begin at Suez
70(13)
Opening for Barnsley with Dickie Bird
83(7)
The Girl on the Upper Deck
90(7)
Watching Neville Cardus
97(6)
The Black Palace in Fleet Street
103(6)
Brendan Behan's False Teeth
109(6)
Our Man in the Congo
115(8)
Disenchantment
123(8)
Granadaland
131(8)
A Spot of Trouble in Zanzibar
139(12)
The Six Day War
151(10)
Paid to Watch Movies, Football and Cricket
161(9)
Talk Show Host
170(11)
Ali, the Greatest
181(11)
Ali in Autumn
192(9)
Emu and Meg Ryan
201(10)
Lighting Up For Bette Davis
211(11)
That's Showbiz
222(10)
Dust in the Crevices
232(13)
The Toughest Job in the World
245(10)
Why Do Actors Do It?
255(10)
With Love, Joy and Laughter
265(7)
Storm in a BBC Teacup
272(6)
Learning My ABC
278(11)
Two Baggy Greens
289(10)
The Famous Five
299(8)
From Elton John to Skinner Normanton
307(13)
Garden Shed Comeback
320(12)
Mandela's Country
332(8)
Time-slot wars
340(10)
The Engine of My Ambition
350(6)
Final Line-up
356(19)
Index 375
Born in Yorkshire, Michael Parkinson left school at sixteen with the ambition to play cricket for Yorkshire and England and to write about cricket for the Manchester Guardian. Although he didn't manage to fulfil the first half of his ambition, he has since become one of the most successful journalists of his generation. He wrote a sports column for The Sunday Times for fifteen years and has also written for the Telegraph. He is a legendary TV and radio presenter - his long-running chat show Parkinson was hugely popular for many years.