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Legendary chat show host Michael Parkinson, 87, made a rare appearance on BBC Breakfast today as he admitted he didn't recognise himself from his days on TV

More 30,000 frightened viewers complained about the terrifying show when it was first broadcast 30 years ago

PHILADELPHIA — Two of the guns used in the shooting outside Roxborough High School last month, which left a 14-year-old dead and four teens injured, later ended up in the hands of a Philadelphia sheriff's deputy who then illegally resold the weapons to a federal informant, according to a court…

The Pythons fly, Doctor Who stumbles, Match of the Day shows a game of one half, The War Game is pulled – and was Dad’s Army a metaphor for military impotence during the cold war?

The two atomic bomb tests at Emu Field in outback SA are perhaps less notorious than those that followed at Maralinga, but the 1953 detonations were accompanied by some extraordinary incidents.

Producer behind popular TV programmes on serious social issues, and documentaries with David Frost and Jonathan Dimbleby

Tens of thousands of complaints were made against the BBC show, starring Michael Parkinson and Sarah Greene, that has never been repeated in full on TV since it first aired

Actor has also previously railed against the term ‘beauty’

Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe explained on the Australian show This is your Life, why he decided to come as gay during an interview with Sir Michael Parkinson back in 2014

Next week marks a year since Liverpool was dramatically deleted from UNESCO's world heritage list, but fears the city would then 'fall off a cliff' have failed to materialise

Fans are unlikely to care that there’s hardly enough new material to justify a re-release of this 2017 documentary – Michael was just too good