Like Father, Like Son: A family story [Paperback] Parkinson, Michael

Michael Parkinson turns the lens on himself — and his father — in this memoir about inheritance, masculinity, and the working-class North. The legendary broadcaster grew up in a Yorkshire mining village, son of a cricketer-turned-miner who valued graft, sport, and silence over sentiment. Parkinson examines how that upbringing shaped him, how he both followed and fled his father's path, and what it means to be a son trying to understand a man who rarely spoke his feelings. It's tender without being mawkish, honest about class and ambition, and quietly moving in its excavation of what gets passed down — the good, the complicated, the unspoken. For anyone wrestling with what they inherited from a parent, or curious about post-war Yorkshire life told by one of Britain's finest interviewers.