Miles Kington
Biography
Miles Kington (1941 - 2008) was a British journalist and broadcaster. He wrote a daily humorous column for thirty years, first for the Times and then for Independent, prior to which he was on the staff of Punch for fifteen years.
At Punch he started the popular “Let’s Parler Franglais” column which furnished four Penguin paperbacks and many middle-class loos. He left Punch in 1980 to go to Peru to make one of the BBC’s “Great Railway Journeys” programmes and after several other films, and was nicely embarked on a TV career until he turned down the invitation to present “Around The World In Eighty Days” and was never asked back.
Over the years he fitted in his daily column around translating books from the French, reviewing jazz, playing double bass, publishing humour collections and making many Radio 4 programmes. In 2006 he published a humorous mock autobiography, Someone Like Me, in which everything was made up, though it fooled many people, including his publishers.
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