SPORTING PROFILES by Parkinson Michael

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This collection of profiles of today's sporting figures includes Fred Perry, Rory Underwood and George Best. It examines football, golf, cricket, rugby, tennis, rowing and motor racing, and features interviews with many famous names.

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SPORTING PROFILES by Parkinson Michael

This is a collection of profiles of many famous sporting figures of today. It includes Fred Perry, Jackie Stewart, George Best, Nick Faldo, Denis Compton, Steve Redgrave, Michael Atherton, Rory Underwood, Allan Border, David Lloyd and Laura Davis. It also features interviews with sporting celebrities. The sports looked at are football, golf, cricket, rugby, tennis, rowing and motor racing, and the book also examines the more serious side of sport, such as the problems facing teenage tennis superstars like Jennifer Caprati, who are deprived of their childhoods. The opposite approaches to captaincy shown by Mike Gatting and Mike Atherton are discussed, highlighting the differences to be found in the same sport.

Michael Parkinson was born in Cudworth, near Barnsley. He began his career as a journalist, but later moved to television where he worked for Granada on current affairs programmes before joining the BBC 24 hours team. In 1965 he began writing a weekly sports column for The Sunday Times. A passionate interest in film led to the publication of A Pictorial History of Westerns, his favourite film genre. His chat show Parkinson ran for 11 years, from 1971 until 1982 and he has interviewed almost everybody who was anybody with the exception of Frank Sinatra - a lasting regret. From 1979 to 1982 he also presented Parkinson for ABC and Channel 10 in Australia, and in the 1980s he was one of the founder members of TV AM.

From 1990-92 he presented the Michael Parkinson Show on LBC, a daily, live three hour radio show. From 1986-87 he presented Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 and from 1994-96 he presented Parkinson on Sport for Radio 5. In 1996 Michael launched a Sunday morning show, Parkinson's Sunday Supplement on Radio 2, with music and guests which is still on air today.

In 1990 Michael Parkinson joined the Daily Telegraph, writing a regular weekly column on sport. He has won numerous awards including, in 1995, Sports Feature Writer of the Year at the British Sport Journalism Awards. In 1998 he won awards for his work in three different branches of the media - a feat thought to be unique. He won a Sony Radio Award for Parkinson's Sunday Supplement, he was named Sports Writer of the Year at the Press Gazette British Press Awards and Media Personality of the Year by the Variety Club. In June 2000, Michael was awarded a CBE and Parkinson was named one of the top ten favourite British TV programmes of all time. A new series of Parkinson began on ITV in 2004 and continued till November 2007. He was awarded a knighthood for services to broadcasting in the 2008 New Year's honours list.

Happily married to his wife Mary for nearly fifty years, they have three sons, and liv

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ISBN 13 9781857934045
ISBN 10 1857934040
Title SPORTING PROFILES
Author Parkinson Michael
Condition Unavailable
Binding type Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1995-10-05
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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