‘Parky’ to return in new series

Press, 12 May 1982, Page 22

‘Parky’ to return in new series

The popular television interviewer. Michael Parkinson. will return on Saturday night in a new series from the 8.8. C. "Parky’s” guests will be actress Ingrid Bergman. actor Telly Savalas. singer Robin Sarstedt and General Sir John Hackett.

A Swedish leading actress who went to Hollywood in 1938 and stayed to become am international star. Ingrid Bergman, also has several stage and television appearances to her credit. In 1948 her affair with Roberto Rossellini. the Italian film director, caused a return to Europe where she has since appeared in a number of Swedish films.

“Who loves ya baby?” became a world-wide catch-

phrase when the television series "Kojak" was at the height of its popularity a few years ago. It was perhaps the performance of the baldheaded. lollypop-sucking 1 Telly Savalas in the title role that made the series such an international success.

Author of the best-selling book. “The Third World War." General Sir John Hackett. G.C.8.. C.8.E.. D.S.O. and Bar. M.C.. M.A.. B. Litt., LL.D., is known in Britain as the foremost sol-dier-scholar of his time. Born in Australia in 1910 of Norman-Irish stock. John Hackett might have been a don if the imminence of Hitler's war had not attracted him. after reading history at Oxford, into a

family cavalry regiment. That war brought him three wounds and three decorations for gallantry, the last of both when he commanded one of two parachute brigades at Arnhem, in a military career that saw; him deputy chief of the General Staff and ended with his command of the Northern Army Group in N.A.T.O. as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine. A now-famous letter to “The Times" on the need to strengthen N.A.T.O. might have ended his career rather, sooner if he had not got around British rules about corresponding with the press, (if only just) by writing as N.A.T.O. general. 'i