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Dickie Bird's final phone call to his close friend of 74 years - Sir Michael Parkinson
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13:21Now PlayingDickie Bird, a close friend of Sir Michael Parkinson since they were 14 year olds in Barnsley, says that he spoke to him yesterday - and that he "knew there was something wrong with him".
The pair reminisced on growing up in Yorkshire as the sons of coal miners, and how their fathers "would have been very, very proud of us" as they both shed a few tears and cracked a few jokes.
Comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner recalled Sir Michael's career as a journalist, where his geniality, self of humour and "Yorkshire grit" made him the greatest interviewer of all time, he told Sky News.
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