Michael Parkinson has announced that he plans to release archive programmes of his show so possibly here comes that elusive John Wayne interview plus Jimmy Cagney and James Stewart etc.
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He has interviewed 2,000 of the world's most famous people in a TV career spanning 26 years – and now Michael Parkinson plans to spend his retirement watching them all over again.
He will go back through his archive and "fillet" shows to create a major retrospective series.
Yet far from being a sign that the 72-year-old is clinging to past glories, he insists he "can't wait" for retirement. He plans to visit Australia and write and promote his autobiography, as well as find a way of repackaging interviews with the likes of Orson Welles, James Cagney, Fred Astaire, Peter Sellers and Muhammad Ali.