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“So it got me thinking, what was it about this man that made him unforgettable in my life.
“That was the starting point of the book, and then I became ill, I had gallstones removed. But when I came out of the hospital, I came back to work with Mike and he had struck something which I had not really thought about.
“He had re-organised the book and made it more compelling. It kept changing shape, and in the end, we had a book that was not like a normal biography but it’s about a family.
“It’s about a remarkable man, my father, but it’s more than that, it’s about family life,” he added.
Like Father, Like Son: A Family Story by Michael Parkinson and Mike Parkinson is available now (Hodder & Stoughton, Hardback, £20)
