Madame Arcati: Molly Parkin on Desert Island Discs

Sunday, May 08, 2011

Molly Parkin on Desert Island Discs

Portrait by Darren Coffield

If you missed Molly Parkin on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs this morning, here's a chance to catch up. She's described as the 'grande dame of Bohemian living' and talks vividly of her life.

Click here.

PS Following the show, her memoir Welcome To Mollywood rocketed up the Amazon Biography sales chart. Even Madame experienced a surge with over 4000 extra visitors to the various posts on Moll (see labels).

No comments:

Frenemies of Arcati

"I like Madame Arcati because she mixes spite with spunk, which is no simple task" - Gavin James Bower, novelist
"Madame Arcati is a great website" - Roger Lewis
"Madame Arcati ... is the current darling of the blogosphere and one of its best, sexiest reads ... " Mark Borkowski, PR and author
"Madame Arcati ... Britain's best and most outrageous blogger." The Social Shuttle, Australia
"I am your biggest fan." Amanda Eliasch, Fashion Editor of Genlux magazine, Los Angeles
"Madame Arcati - for frank, fearless gossip and insight." Maureen Rice, former editor of Psychologies
"Peruse M. Arcati's synapse-stiffening blog twice a week... to slow age-related thinning of the frontal cortex." Francis Wheen, Private Eye and anti-mumbo jumbo guru
"It's high time I bought you lunch. Send dates." India Knight, The Sunday Times
"I'm putting Madame Arcati on my favourites list." Cathy Galvin, deputy ed, Sunday Times Magazine
"Madame Arcati... is one of the most successful bloggers on the net." Frances Lynn, celebrated novelist, blogger and gossip writer
"I like Madame and her taste and she likes my shoes!" Suzanne Moore, The Mail on Sunday
"Madame Arcati is a ... fantasist". Mark Frith, ex-Heat editor, now acting ed of Time Out (London)
"Madame Arcati ... perhaps the most powerful blogger in Britain... " Crystal Gazer on the Jonathan King site
"Top blogger ... Madame Arcati ... " Rob McGibbon, Press Gazette
"Those two empresses of the blogosphere, Susan Hill and Madame Arcati ..." Duncan Fallowell, The New Statesman
"Madame Arcati has a reputation for providing reliable and awe-inspiring information ... " Celebrity Implant website
"Your fame precedes you - courtesy of Noel Coward." Patrick Jephson, former Private Secretary (Chief of Staff) to Diana, Princess of Wales
"A caustic media blogger." The New York Post
"Madame Arcati is our website of the week." Time Out, June 27, 2007. Click here
"Madame Arcati is great fun, sort of the News of the World getting off with
the TLS at a drag ball." Duncan Fallowell, Prospect magazine
"You're my special friend ... I recognise a kindred spirit." Molly Parkin
"You may be clever and you may (sometimes) be shrewd, but your mind is diseased. If you were a young man, you would be arrested. Take my advice - get help." Walter Ellis, a Times obituarist
"Madame Arcati is a ... blogosphere celeb" Shane Richmond, Daily Telegraph
"You sound like fun ...." Julie Burchill, email
"Madame Arcati's blog is one of the nastiest places I have ever seen on the net. Superficial, narrow-minded, spiteful, often slanderous... and utterly unreliable, because the blogger (and most of her/his so-called 'unimpeachable' sources) remain utterly anonymous." - An unfamous keyboarder
"I loved this... oh, and I thank YOU as well." J Randy Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson/Diana Ross biographer
"IF you like viciousness, the Madame Arcati blog is worth a butcher's.
Indeed, so contentious are her comments about Sunday Times deputy editor [sic] Nick Hellen that Axegrinder's Anadin-popping lawyer has refused me permission to repeat a single word of them. Sorry about that." Press Gazette
"Madame Arcati is brimming with smug self-satisfaction over her own smartness and wit. She's taking herself as seriously as a hen who's just laid an egg. She doesn't know that the only true humour is self-humour.Consequently, she irritates, but she doesn't entertain. Hence her numerous opponents.God, I hope I'll get the glory of the sidebar for this!" Famous Anon
"Who are you?" Bryan Appleyard
"I do realise Mme A is anonymous, superficial, often slanderous, and ultimately unreliable - this last is the way of anonymous phenomena dating back to the political pamphlets of the 17th century. I guess I thought those elements cancelled themselves out: once you've got slanderous (and outrageous) and unreliable, you're clearly not looking at it in the same way as, say, Andrew Sullivan. It becomes about itself. It's a construct." Ms Baroque
"[A] mischievous media/arts commentator and gossip-monger..." The Atlantic Online, Andrew Sullivan: The Daily Dish
"I'm a fan." Hugo Rifkind, The Times
"I do enjoy your column and hope you will come in all anonymity to my new play." Peter Maddock, playwright
"If you haven't yet noticed that Madame Arcati is worth reading regularly, you should." Grumpyoldbookman

Sunday, May 08, 2011

Molly Parkin on Desert Island Discs

No comments:

Michael Gross interview: his roguish book and the furious social empress of New York (click pic)

'Fuck her daddy!' - What sex is like with Hugh Hefner

Sheila Vogel-Coupe's sex movie: X Factor Katie Waissel's 81 year-old gran in performance

Madame Arcati interview 2 (part 2): Indecent Exposures. Click pic

Madame Arcati's first interview - click pic

Sheila Vogel-Coupe: Madame Arcati's woman of the year - click pic for more

Dr Brian Cox and the Wonder of his Solar Smile - click teeth, you can't miss them

Blog Archive

Madame Arcati: Now I am a thing

Twitter

'Why I wrote the world's first Kevin Spacey biography' - click Kev

Links

Copyright Notice

Jubilee - the 1977 Punk flick that foresaw Simon Cowell - click pic

Molly Parkin's 80th birthday party: the insider's report - click pic

Review: How To Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits by Duncan Fallowell. Click naked DF pic to read

Frenemies of Arcati