Michael Parker, 'ah yes the coalman from down Kirk Lane', that's how countless numbers of people know him but there is so much more to this well-spoken gentleman.
It is true that the family business was a major part of Michael's life but then again so was the theatre and his National Service. You wouldn't think that the man unloading a freight train truck full of coal by hand onto the back of a lorry could also be a budding thespian treading the boards in the theatre.
This was only the second recorded interview I had done but I am very pleased to say that we managed to capture the little devil that lives inside Michael Parker.
