Current & Future Projects
We are sorry to inform you that due to the Coronavirus, all 2020 dates have been rescheduled for 2021. All tickets previously purchased for cancelled dates can be refunded by contacting the theatre directly. Sir Michael sends his apologies, but unfortunately this is out of his control. He wishes you all well and Sir Michael and Mike Parkinson hope to see you all at the rearranged 2021 dates which are now listed below.
Yorkshire Tea
At Yorkshire tea, they’ve always done things proper. So when a vacancy appeared for new staff, they always try to find the very best talent – from the people who source their tea to their very experienced new Head of Interviews.
2021 Come and join us for An Evening With Sir Michael Parkinson
We celebrate the life and career of a man who in over 50 years in the business, has interviewed over 2000 of the most important cultural figures of the 20th and 21st centuries and won awards for journalism, radio and television broadcasting.
In conversation with his son Mike and showing highlights from the Parkinson archive, An Evening with Sir Michael Parkinson is a unique opportunity to get an intimate, entertaining and informative look at his remarkable journey from a pit village in Yorkshire to the top of those famous stairs whilst reliving the best moments from a show that for many defined their Saturday night.
Please see below all reschedule dates and venues. Tickets will go on sale very shortly.
Date: Warrington Parr Hall. Saturday 10th April 2021 19:30
Venue: Warrington Parr Hall
Address:
Contact: 01925 442 345
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3a3oDUT
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Date: Albert Halls. Sunday 11th April 2021. 19:30
Venue: Albert Halls, Bolton
Address:
Contact: 01204 333 888
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2HWa6OU
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Date: Middlesborough Town Hall. Friday 16th April 2021. 19:30
Venue: Middlesborough Town Hall.
Address:
Contact: 01642 729 729
Tickets: boxoffice@middlesborough.gov.uk
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Date: Corn Exchange. Friday 30th April 2021. 19:30
Venue: Ipswich Corn Exchange
Address:
Contact: 01473 433 465
Tickets: Released shortly
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Date: Darlington Hippodrome. Saturday 2nd October 2021. 19:30
Venue: Darlington Hippodrome
Address:
Contact: 01325 405 405
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2HX2AmV
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Date: Opera House. Sunday 3rd October 2021. 19:30
Venue: Buxton Opera House
Address:
Contact: 01298 72190
Tickets: Released shortly
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Date: Corn Exchange. Sunday 10th October 2021. 19:30
Venue: Exeter Corn Exchange
Address:
Contact: 01392 665 866
Tickets: Released shortly
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Date: Kendal. Wednesday 20th October 2021. 19:30
Venue: Kendal Leisure Centre
Address:
Contact: 01539 729 777
Tickets: Released shortly
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Date: Yarm School. Friday 22nd October 2021. 19:30
Venue: Yarm School, Yarm
Address:
Contact: 01642 786 023
Tickets: admin@yarmschool.org
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Date: King’s Hall. Monday 25th October 2021. 19:30
Venue: King’s Hall, Iikley.
Address:
Contact: 01943 436 224
Tickets: Released shortly
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Date: Harrogate Theatre. Tuesday 26th October. 19:30
Venue: Harrogate Theatre
Address:
Contact: 01423 502 116
Tickets: Released shortly
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Date: Grand Theatre. Thursday 28th October 2021. 19:30
Venue: Lancaster Grand Theatre
Address:
Contact: 01524 64695
Tickets: Released shortly
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Date: Millennium Centre. Thursday 11th November 2021. 19:30
Venue: Wales Millennium Centre
Address:
Contact: 029 2063 6464
Tickets: https://bit.ly/381XArE
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Date: Waterfront Hall. Saturday 13th November 2021. 19:30
Venue: Waterfront Hall, Belfast
Address:
Contact: 028 9033 4400
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2w64Ntk
George Best: A Memoir
Book released by Hodder & Stoughton @HodderBooks November 2016
George Best: A Memoir
Michael Parkinson and George Best faced one another countless times in interviews. Their conversations were mutually respectful, even intimate, yet always brimming with searching questions and revealing answers.
The great Manchester United and Northern Ireland attacker – one of the few sports personalities to merit the term ‘iconic’ – was almost always candid, lucid and self-effacing. Alcoholism had him in its grip from an early age, affecting the love affairs that fed the tabloid headlines, but there was far more to Best than booze and birds.
In George Best: A Memoir, Michael Parkinson draws upon decades of award-winning journalistic experience to re-evaluate a remarkable footballer and a damaged friend. The book weaves together recollections of when the ‘the fifth Beatle’ ensured it was Manchester, not London or Liverpool, which made the Sixties swing; of Best enjoying a carefree kickabout with the Parkinsons’ children in the family garden; and selected transcripts from their endlessly fascinating interviews.
‘Where did it all go wrong?’ is the punchline to a famous Best story. George Best: A Memoir provides Michael Parkinson’s considered response to the question while bringing fresh insight into the footballing genius that made Best one of the immortals and the self-destructive side of his character.
This is a unique eyewitness account of what many regard as the best Parkinson interviews ever.