Michael Parkinson was a radical anti-racist as well as a national treasure
Overlooked in the blanket coverage of Michael Parkinson’s death are the radical views he expressed well before became a national treasure for his much-loved BBC celebrity interviews. His formative socialist years were in the Yorkshire town of Barnsley, the son of a miner. That, combined with his…
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