PARKY ON PARKY: Sir Michael Parkinson's son Mike pays tribute to late chat show king with charity show for Barnsley Civic

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Yorkshire’s late chat show king Sir Michael Parkinson will be back interviewing global superstars in a special hometown charity tribute show featuring  TV clips hosted by his son, Mike. Parky On Parky will celebrate the life and career of the iconic Barnsley broadcaster and national treasure in a fundraiser for the Barnsley Civic at the town centre venue on Friday, April 25, as Mike explains here in this excusive chat with Graham Walker. BUY TICKETS: Tickets for this show start at £22.50 and are available at https://barnsleycivic.co.uk/event/parky-on-parky/, by calling 01226 327000 or visiting the Barnsley Civic, Eldon Street box office, open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm. Mike, who worked with his father for over 20 years, until his death in 2023, has agreed to donate all ticket sales to support the venue’s creative health and well-being work in Barnsley’s communities. Cudworth born Sir Micheal was a proud patron and supporter of Barnsley Civic, a registered charity, and had appeared at the venue in his ‘an audience with’ shows.  Parky on Parky will give fans a funny, thoughtful and often surprising insight into what made Sir Michael tick both as a man, a journalist and the doyen of television interviewers. Mike said: “In 2015 my dad and I did a show together at Barnsley Civic and he so enjoyed the experience that he made a promise to return to do another show to raise money for this lovely venue. But our busy schedule and latterly his ill health means that 10 years later I am coming back, sadly without my dad, but safe in the knowledge that he would want me to fulfil his promise.”

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00:00The 25th of April at the Barnsley Civic I'm doing a show called Parky on Parky

00:07and this show is a version, it's my version, of the show I used to do with my

00:13father a long time actually because we used to write a lot of books together

00:18and collaborate on projects and we used to use a show where I was in

00:21conversation with him with clips from his archive talking about his

00:26life and career and when he became ill and and he was not able to do it anymore

00:32we began to talk about what what he would like to happen to his archive and

00:37his memory and his his legacy which we'd worked together for 20 odd years to

00:41build up and one of the things he wanted me to do was he wanted me to keep the

00:46spirit of the show alive but he also wanted me to fulfill a promise to the

00:50Barnsley Civic which he made in 2015 when we did the show to promote a book about

00:55Muhammad Ali and he said to them then that he would come back and do the show

01:00to purely raise funds for the building and he never got a chance to do it so he

01:05said one of the things I have to do is not only keep this show alive but to also

01:10fulfill that promise which is what I'm doing on the 25th of April and every

01:15single ticket all the money is going to go to the Barnsley Civic which is basically

01:21the wish fulfillment of my father's wish and so you'll learn about his life you'll

01:25learn about his career you'll see incredible archive from his his Parkinson's

01:31show but you'll also get a perspective from me as his son and also as his

01:35producer and his business partner there is a sense of it being a memorial I think

01:40that in August it'll be two years since he died what I'm allowed to do now I

01:45think is properly celebrate the man it is an element where I'm working through grief

01:50he's not really gone is he because in a sense he's in me he's 50% of me so when

01:57I'm standing on stage he's still there I think that that's what happens I think

02:02every son grows into his father and I know he got better in everything as he got

02:06older he got he got more relaxed in himself more happy with himself a better

02:10interviewer a better everything and I just hope that happens to me

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