Whicker's World

Alan Whicker looks again at the reports he made for Tonight (1957) on his 1958 journey round the world.

Alan Whicker looks again at the reports he made for Tonight (1957) on his 1958 journey round the world.

Alan Whicker looks again at the reports he made for Tonight (1957) on his 1958 journey round the world.

Alan Whicker looks again at the reports he made for Tonight (1957) on his 1958 journey round the world.

Alan Whicker looks again at the reports he made for Tonight (1957) on his 1958 journey round the world.

Alan Whicker looks again at the reports he made for Tonight (1957) on his 1958 journey round the world.

In this edition, Alan Whicker meets Percy Shaw, the inventor of cats' eyes reflectors for roads, who, despite his wealth, lives a relatively simple life in Halifax, North Yorkshire.

Alan Whicker looks at British journalism in Fleet Street, and focuses on two very different newspapers; The Times and The Daily Mirror.

Alan Whicker talks to people in the "horror industry" to find out why we like being frightened. Among the interviewees are Hammer Horror star Christopher Lee and Dalek creator Terry Nation

Alan Whicker attends the 93rd running of the Kentucky Derby, with the Derby Festival in turmoil due to civil unrest.

Alan Whicker reports on the "love generation", the hippies in San Francisco and their counter-culture life.

Alan Whicker examines the beauty industry and how people stave off the ageing process with persistence, pain, money, and remarkable ingenuity.

Alan Whicker investigates the world of the small-time crook.

Alan Whicker examines what makes people laugh and talks to Bernie Winters, Ned Sherrin, Ted Rogers, Johnny Speight, Alfred Marks, and Charlie Chester among others.

Alan Whicker examines the pressure on people in the public eye which often causes the end of their marriages. Interviewees include novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, model Sandra Paul, Peter Scott, David Wynne-Morgan and Robin Douglas-Home.

Alan Whicker examines the success of the James Bond films, and reports from the set of the 007 movie You Only Live Twice (1967).

Alan Whicker looks at the private detective agency run by Tom Ponzi in Italy.

Alan Whicker goes behind the scenes of the film Grand Prix (1966), set in the world of motor racing in Monte Carlo and directed by John Frankenheimer..

Alan Whicker reports on anonymous societies and the work of individuals to help alcoholics, gamblers, neurotics, divorcées, potential suicides, drug addicts, etc.

Alan Whicker reports on alternative healing methods and the people who go to practitioners who offer Bee Cure, Spirit Operation, Radiesthesia, Witchcraft, Acupuncture, Osteopathy, Hypnotism, and Faith Healing.

A week before the Miss World contest, Alan Whicker talks to the contestants, asking about their their personal lives and ambitions, and their reasons for entering the contest.

In the last part of his series examining modern American trends, Alan Whicker looks at the problems faced by retired people who are fit and active.

Continuing his six-part examination of trends in modern America, Alan Whicker looks at the earning of top business executives and the demands made on them by society.

Continuing his series looking at modern American trends, Alan Whicker visits "The Greenhouse" in Texas, where American women pay up to $110 per day for treatments to make them slimmer and younger looking.

Alan Whicker reports from Haiti and interviews dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

Continuing his series looking at modern American trends, Alan Whicker examines the rise in the number of unmarried adults and the lives they lead.

Alan Whicker continues his look at modern American trends, this week focusing on American kids aged 7 - 11.

Alan Whicker reports on modern trends in American society, this week looking at Americans who are questioning the inevitability of death and ways to cheat it.

Alan Whicker visits Kissimmee, just before it was "pixiemated" by Walt Disney World. He tours the construction site, and talks to cast members.

Alan Whicker meets Desmond Guinness, founder of Ireland's Georgian Preservation Society, who is attempting to save Irish stately homes and Dublin's famous Georgian squares from decay and development schemes.

Alan Whicker meets Margaret Kelly, organizer of the Bluebell troupe of dancing girls, who talks about their costumes and their routines.

'Harry' Cipriani talks to Alan Whicker reminisces about some of the famous people - ranging from Ernest Hemingway to the Queen - who he has entertained in his bar in Venice.

Alan Whicker meets Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, a German businessman and head of the immensely wealthy Thurn und Taxis family who own more land in Germany than anyone else.

Alan Whicker meets a number of British emigrants to New Zealand, some of whom are content with their lives there and others who are longing to return to the U.K.

Alan Whicker looks at life on the volcanic island of Tanna in the South Pacific

Alan Whicker interviews various New Zealand women on the role of women in their society. He meets author Dame Ngaio Marsh, Women's Liberation leader Sue Kedgley, and a housewife, an editor and a female lorry driver.

Alan Whicker compares lifestyles on the Samoan Islands - American Samoa, a territory receiving 36 million dollars annually from the U.S., and Western Samoa, 65 miles away, which is one of the World's poorest nations.

Alan Whicker looks at New Zealand's venison industry, which exports three million tons of meat a year to Europe (mainly Germany) and the U.S.A.

Alan Whicker visits the Republic of Nauru, an island with an area of eight square miles situated in the Pacific Ocean, 26 miles south of the Equator.

Alan Whicker observes a $75,000 wedding in Las Vegas, from the first fitting of the bride's dress to the actual event in a candlelit casino.

Alan Whicker examines how Californians spend their leisure time. He watches people hang-gliding, goes to a womens American football match, and watches men and women in a nightly activity where skill lies in undressing and standing still.

Alan Whicker investigates a recent American phenomenon - the introduction of speedway racing for children as young as 3 years old, equipped with mini-bikes.

Alan Whicker meets Frances Klug who believes she speaks daily with the voice of God, and whose followers are building a £400 million Holy City. Whicker is ordained as a Doctor of Divinity by the President of the Universal Life Church.

Alan Whicker looks at one of the first and largest of the several hundred 'Jesus Communes' in California, the 'Christian Foundation' of Tony and Susan Alamo, where 500 young people daily await the end of the world.

Continuing his series in California, Alan Whicker examines the love of the car by the Californians.

Alan Whicker looks at the growing plastic surgery industry in California and meets surgeon Dr. Kurt Wagner and his wife Kathy, on whom he has performed several operations.

Alan Whicker attends a gay wedding at a church in San Diego and investigates the rise of the Gay Liberation movement in the U.S.A.

Alan Whicker visits Vienna, looking at its history and its present day.

Alan Whicker visits Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. He samples snake wine, goes to snake shops whose merchandise is reputed to cure ailments, eats delicacies such as sea slug and visits an acupuncture clinic.

Alan Whicker visits Honolulu in Hawaii.

Alan Whicker visits Vancouver in Canada.

Alan Whicker journey's to Houston, Texas - one of the most notorious cities for shootings in the United States.

Alan Whicker visits Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

Alan Whicker discovers the Ocker, a term describing the new-style aggressive Australian who cocks a snook at his British origins and the rest of the world.

In his series looking at Australia, Alan Whicker meets Leonard & Shirley Casley who, following an argument with the government, declared their farm in the outback to be an independent nation with its own stamps, currency and air force.

Alan Whicker meets people who emigrated to Australia, including an Englishman who runs Australia's oldest stately home and a British bishop, raised in a Welsh slum, whose diocese covers a quarter of Australia.

Alan Whicker visits the opal town of Coober Pedy in Australia's Central Desert where huge fortunes are made by digging for opals.

Alan Whicker meets migrants who have found success in Australia, including a golf coach from England, a Jerseyman who teaches Australians to enjoy losing money, and a racing driver whose fleet of double-decker buses have bars and saunas.

In his series looking at Australia, Alan Whicker meets wealthy mineral prospector Lang Hancock, and discusses his plans for opening up the north-west outback, dealing with bureaucracy, and his daughter Gina taking over from him.

In a series examining life in Australia, Alan Whicker looks at famous criminals who moved there, American forger Bob Baudin and 'Great Train Robber' Ronald Biggs, whose wife Charmian who talks about the robbery and the escape to Australia.

Alan Whicker meets Lula Parker Betenson, the 94 year old sister of Robert Leroy Parker (a.k.a. Butch Cassidy). He observes Mormon culture and goes to Las Vegas to meet The Osmonds.

Alan Whicker visits Salt Lake City, home of the Mormon religion Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Although polygamy is now officially banned by the Church, he discovers that it continues among Fundamentalists. He also meets the 82 year-old Mormon leader, Spencer Kimball.

Alan Whicker visits the city of Charleston and observes the very varied lifestyles of its residents, including that of America's only Voodoo colony.

Alan Whicker looks at the lifestyle of the wealthy residents of Palm Beach, Florida.

Alan Whicker visits Anchorage and investigates the controversial Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline. He meets the conservationists who are fighting against what they see as the exploitation of the state.

Alan Whicker visits the island of Penang during the Thaipusam festival, when pilgrims pierce themselves with giant spears. He meets former Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, and some British colonials still in living there.

In the second of a two-part edition, Alan Whicker visits the city of Bombay, meeting some of its wealthiest residents, including film stars and industrialists and inhabitants of the shanty slum areas.

In the first of a two-part edition, Alan Whicker visits the city of Bombay, meeting some of its wealthiest residents, including film stars and industrialists and inhabitants of the shanty slum areas.

Alan Whicker visits several of the Maharajahs of Rajasthan and watches a polo match played on bicycles

Alan Whicker visits the High Ranges of North Travancore in India and looks at the lives of the few remaining British tea planters.

Alan Whicker visits Kerala to see the martial art of Kalarippayat, celebrates Passover with an old Jewish community, attends a festival where elephants in gold armour engage in a battle of Umbrellas, and meets some Britons who live there.

Alan Whicker visits Rajasthan to examine Indian royal marriages. He meets the Maharajah of Jodphur and his wife, and rides their royal train. Whicker also meets the Princess of Alwar, a widow who is forbidden to remarry.

Alan Whicker examines the fear of violence that causes so many ordinary Americans to pack a gun, and goes to a school that teaches people how to shoot to kill.

Alan Whicker meets some of the 50,000 Britons who live in Los Angeles, including actors Patrick Macnee, Christopher Lee and Peter Sellers (in one of his last ever television interviews).

Alan Whicker revisits plastic surgeon Dr. Kurt Wagner and his wife Kathy, whom he first met in 1973.

lan Whicker visits Los Angeles and meets Britt Ekland and Sherry Lansing, goes to a birthday party for dogs and talks to starstruck teenagers and their pushy mothers anxious to see their offspring make it in show-business.

Alan Whicker looks at the recruitment drive in the San Francisco Police Department aimed at getting more officers from the Lesbian and Gay Community.

Alan Whicker looks at the rise in female police officers in the U.S. and talks to several women who joined the force and the prejudice they face from the public and their own male colleagues.

Looking back at the first decade of Whicker's World at the BBC, Alan Whicker recalls going on a drugs raid with axe-wielding Singapore police, and visiting the birthplace of the atom bomb at Los Alamos.

Alan Whicker continues looking back at the first decade of Whicker's World at the BBC. In this all-female edition, he recalls interviewing Geisha girls, glamour girls, and beauty queens, and the Duchess of Alba who had 68 titles.

Looking back at the first decade of Whicker's World at the BBC, Whicker recalls meeting a woman who claims she married the spirit of Bernard Shaw, as well as the Caribbean cult of the Pocomaniacs and the witchcraft of Guatemalan Indians.

Alan Whicker continues looking back at the first ten years of Whicker's World. In this edition he recalls his interviews with billionaire J. Paul Getty, Baroness Fiona Thyssen (now coping with a divorce), and a docker who won the pools.

Returning to the BBC with six programmes looking back at the first decade of Whicker's World, Alan Whicker recalls fox hunting with the Quorn, discussing civil rights with Cassius Clay, and an interview with bullfighter El Cordobés.

Four-part documentary in which Alan Whicker interviews his fellow passengers on a three-month cruise in the Pacific.

Four-part documentary in which Alan Whicker interviews his fellow passengers on a three-month cruise in the Pacific.

Four-part documentary in which Alan Whicker interviews his fellow passengers on a three-month cruise in the Pacific.

Four-part documentary in which Alan Whicker interviews his fellow passengers on a three-month cruise in the Pacific.

Alan Whicker continues his series about British expatriates living in America, and meets actress Joan Collins.

Alan Whicker talks to people from the arts and entertainment, including Wilton Morley (son of Robert Morley), film producer Phillip Emmanuel, Edmund Capon curator of the NSW Art Gallery, writer Tony Shaffer, and boxer Joe Bugner.

Alan Whicker visits Brits living in Australia, including Ray Wilmott who has his own fox hunt in New South Wales, wine critic Len Evans, and Dennis Gowing whose horse won the Melbourne Cup.

Alan Whicker looks at the stereotypical Australian male image with comments from Sally Hurley, Clare Jukka, Sue Becker (the BBC's fitness instructor from the 1970s), Jane Deknatel and Hazel Small.

Alan Whicker looks at industrial relations in Australia. He meets a top trade union official, and British millionaire Roger Smith, who is returning to England after 24 years because of restrictive Australian union practices.

In Australia's Northern Territory, Alan Whicker meets Sid & Barbara Smith who run a public house which serves Devonshire cream teas, and visits an Aborigine alcohol rehabilitation centre run by two British doctors, Dr Clare and Dr Neil.

Alan Whicker visits Brits living in Australia. In Sydney, he attends Lady Primrose Potter's fancy dress ball, meeting society columnist Diana "Bubbles" Fisher. He also visits a gay bar where he meets Jeff Hardy who used to work at Fortnums.

Alan Whicker visits Australia to meet Brits who have emigrated there. He journeys to Northern Queensland and meets a man who likes crocodiles, a garden gnome evangelist, and some gold-diggers in a ghost town.

Alan Whicker meets Brits who have emigrated to Australia. He visits Western Australia's vast outback, and also meets a former bus driver from Bolton who now mans one of the world's loneliest lighthouses.

Alan Whicker talks to Brits living in Australia, including Jane Makim (sister of Sarah, Duchess of York), Captain John Alliston and his wife Eleanor who writes under the alias of Minka Jones.

To celebrate Australia's bicentennial, Alan Whicker visit Brits who have emigrated there. He meets Dorrie Flatman from Liverpool who moved there in 1963 with three children and £45 and now owns a chain of brothels that has made her rich.

Alan Whicker talks to some of the many expatriates who live and work in Hong Kong.

Alan Whicker talks to some of the working, professional women of Hong Kong, both Chinese and European, about their work, roles and the attitudes towards them.

Alan Whicker examines Hong Kong's organised crime syndicate, The Triads, and meets a lawyer who used to prosecute them, a priest who befriended them, and a Traid "enforcer" who is now on the run from them.

Alan Whicker looks into the superstitions and belief in fortune tellers of many Hong Kong citizens.

Alan Whicker looks at drugs, crime and capital punishment in Hong Kong, and meets Christian missionary Jackie Pullinger who rescues drug addicts in the Walled City.

Alan Whicker looks at the treatment of the widows of the men killed when defending the colony in 1941, to a police chief about how illegal immigrants are treated on both sides of the border, and the immensely wealthy Kadoorie family.

Alan Whicker tours the waterfront on a craft owned by a Chinese man who reads The Times and smokes cigars, meets a businessman who serves caviar with a pearl shovel, and a woman who is a telecommunications tycoon who visits soothsayers.

Thirty years after his first visit there, Alan Whicker returns to Hong Kong and looks at its society and its political and economic structure.

Alan Whicker talks to Javier Mariscal, designer of the Olympic mascot, Frederico Correa, creator of the Olympic stadium in Barcelona, and architect Peter Hodgkinson.

Alan Whicker returns to Andalucia to celebrate the spring festival of Rocio, and also visits Expo '92 in Seville.

Alan Whicker meets various women of modern Spain, including a TV sex therapist and a divorce lawyer, and discusses how the status of women in Spain has changed in recent years.

Alan Whicker meets the Duke of Arion, an Olympic yachtsman who crewed for the King of Spain. He is also the biggest producer of tomatoes in Spain and owns a gin company.

Alan Whicker talks to some British expatriates who have settled permanently in Spain.

Alan Whicker goes to a lavish poolside party in Marbella and meets billionaire businessman Adnan Khashoggi. He also meets writer Peter Viertel, husband of actress Deborah Kerr.

Alan Whicker visits the villages of Andalucia.

In the first of eight programmes exploring Spain in the 1990s, Alan Whicker meets a priest who owns a chain of restaurants.

Alan Whicker covers preparations for Pavarotti's concert in March 1994 at Pangkor Laut Resort, a small rain forest island off the west coast of Malaysia. Whicker also meets Lord Lichfield who discusses the natural beauty of the area.

lan Whicker joins the inaugural run of the Eastern and Oriental Express, a 1200 mile train journey from Singapore to Bangkok. Fellow passengers include Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, the Earl of Snowden, Susannah York and Koo Stark.

In the second of his two-part report from South Africa's Lost City resort, Alan Whicker talks to guests Joan Collins, Jerry Hall, Jean-Michel Jarre and Ivana Trump.

Alan Whicker visits South Africa's Lost City, a resort created by millionaire Sol Kerzner and the venue for the 1992 Miss World contest with judges including Ivana Trump, Richard Branson, and Joan Collins.

Alan Whicker visits the Sultan of Brunei, considered to be the richest man in the world and credited with owning over 150 cars and receiving an income of £250,000 every hour.

Alan Whicker concludes his 34-day, 14-country tour with 87 other passengers. After the Iguazu Falls near the Brazil-Argentina border, the jet goes to Rio. Finally in New York, a celebration is held on the Waldorf's Starlight Roof.

Alan Whicker continues his package tour with 87 other passengers. After a champagne breakfast at Ayers Rock, Australia the jet travels to Sydney and across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand. It then lands at Tahiti and on to Easter Island.

Alan Whicker's package tour of the world reaches the Taj Mahal in India and then on to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the Great Wall of China, Xian, and Hong Kong.

Alan Whicker joins a 34-day holiday package around the world with 87 other passengers.