One of the most satisfying moments of the New Year has been the announcement of a knighthood for Michael Parkinson, and the most satisfied recipient of the news must have been Sir Michael himself. After years of denouncing it, he will have been delighted to see that at last the honours system has got things right.
And about time too. A man of Sir Michael's standing - or rather, a man of his sitting and listening to other more famous people - deserves all he can get from the rest of us. He needs the credit, the approbation, as well as the huge amounts of money.
My personal experience of working with Sir Michael - no, make that working for Sir Michael - came when I was asked to write him a script. It was back in the late Nineties, and Sir Michael was hosting a BBC awards show, based on the fact that Television Centre in Wood Lane had been open for  |
Rewriting the script
