The new edition of Radio Times features, on its cover, the promise that no fewer than six stars have been assembled to “recall Parky’s finest hours”. Understandably this made for a very slim feature, hence the number of photos shoehorned into the text. Sadly absent, however, is the hitherto undiscovered snapshot reproduced below, of the man playing the part of a miserable old grouch who hates everything new and can’t abide being told what to do by anybody under the age of 75 – a role, for the Thames Ditton community centre pantomime production of A Christmas Carol, he took to unsurprisingly easily.
