Michael Parkinson, Kenneth Williams, Maggie Smith and Sir John Betjeman
This upload is a companion video to the Parkinson special of 1973, featuring an extended debate between Kenneth Williams and union leader Jimmy Reid, with a little help from the audience. That programme can be found here; During this segment preceding the debate episode, Parky and Kenneth Williams got into a brief, heated exchange over the conduct of the trade union movement, and social and political ideologies more generally. Although by today s standards there wasn t too much in it, it garnered such a reaction that Kenneth was invited back to debate with union leader Jimmy Reid for a special show. In this case, both Parkinson and Kenneth Williams showed their professionalism, in that neither allowed things to escalate, and KW himself defused any tension with a brilliantly over the top, I ve never been so insulted Otherwise it s an interesting combination of guests, with Sir John appearing to have
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