Editing Matthew Parris (section)

==Radio and television==
Parris is now a radio and television presenter, ''[[The Times]]'' columnist, and pundit.<ref name=T/> As an MP he took part in a ''[[World in Action]]'' documentary during 1984 requiring him to live in [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]] for a week on £26.80, the then state [[social security]] payment set for a single adult by the government he supported as a Conservative.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081022211931/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/402598 "British Film Industry: WORLD IN ACTION > FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR PARRIS"] Thames TV, 23 January 1984</ref><ref>[http://www.itv.com/ClassicTVshows/documentary/WorldinAction.html "ITV TV Classics – World In Action"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611150939/http://www.itv.com/ClassicTVshows/documentary/WorldinAction.html |date=11 June 2009 }} Published 4 May 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2009</ref> The experiment came to an embarrassing end when he ran out of money for the electricity meter. Twenty years later, in 2004, he attempted the experiment again for the documentary ''For the Benefit of Mr Parris, Revisited''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090926230259/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/785972 "British Film Industry: FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR PARRIS, REVISITED"] ITV1, 29 January 2004</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.libertybell.tv/content.aspx?page=56&sub=67 |title=Liberty Bell – For the Benefit of Mr Parris |publisher=Libertybell.tv |date=29 January 2004 |access-date=27 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717131630/http://www.libertybell.tv/content.aspx?page=56&sub=67 |archive-date=17 July 2011 }}</ref>

Parris resigned as an MP by applying for the Crown position of [[Steward of the Manor of Northstead]] and left Parliament specifically to take over from [[Brian Walden]] as host of [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s influential Sunday lunchtime current-affairs series ''[[Weekend World]]'' in 1986. The series, broadcast since 1977 with Walden at its helm, ran for two more years under Parris before being cancelled in 1988.

He presents [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Great Lives]]'' biography series, and has appeared on the satirical news programme ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' and presented ''[[After Dark (TV programme)|After Dark]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.openmedia.co.uk/after-dark-core-database-folder|title=After Dark: with presenters including Tony Wilson and Anthony Clare|website=openmedia.co.uk|access-date=20 January 2021|archive-date=27 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127200218/https://www.openmedia.co.uk/after-dark-core-database-folder|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2007, Parris presented two light-hearted but caustic documentaries for Radio 4 on politicians' use of cliché and jargon, entitled ''Not My Words, Mr Speaker''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgvj |title=BBC Radio 4 – Not My Words, Mr Speaker|publisher=BBC |date=19 September 2007 |access-date=15 October 2014}}</ref>

On 8 July 2011, on Radio 4's ''[[Any Questions?]]'', at the height of the furore surrounding the alleged illegal and corrupt activities of ''[[News of the World]]'' journalists, Parris eulogised the newspaper and gave an enthusiastic appreciation of what he considered the virtues and positive achievements of [[Rupert Murdoch]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b012942s |title=BBC Radio 4 – Any Questions? |publisher=BBC |date=8 July 2011 |access-date=18 February 2023}}</ref>

In December 2017 Parris appeared, in a cameo role, in the Anniversary edition of BBC's ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kcxdt|title=Royston Vasey Mon Amour, Anniversary Specials, The League of Gentlemen – BBC Two|publisher=BBC}}</ref>