. _ jane horrocks and i were king lear's daughters.he said. _ "well, i don't have any daughters to leave anything to," and presented me with this beautiful necklace. wow. isn't it beautiful? it really is. _ isn't it gorgeous? it looks elizabethan. it probably was, actually. so, i wear it for good luck. she's been a light in my life. a marvellous mixture, actually, of fragility and toughness... ..and courage. and i must go. no. let me go alone. sir michael parkinson brought many lives well—lived into our living rooms. good evening and welcome. growing up, i would have always watched obviously match of the day on the saturday night and the precursor to that was... was always the parky show. # hello, parky # 0h, hello, parky # it's so nice... # a proud yorkshireman, his love of cinema and sport shone brightly throughout his years as the nation's most watched chat show host. # because it's absurd, parky. # we used to watch that show together, you know, in the good old days when families used to watch shows together. that was one of them. s