Whicker's World S16E02 · Hong Kong: My Great Grandfather Had Six Wives...

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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.

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1. 1 1. Hong Kong: When You Lose Power You Don't Go and Grow Raspberries... You Get Hanged1990-02-16Thirty years after his first visit there, Alan Whicker returns to Hong Kong and looks at its society and its political and economic structure.
2. 2 2. Hong Kong: My Great Grandfather Had Six Wives...1990-02-23Alan 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 wh
3. 3 3. Hong Kong: Face Had to Be Provided for Both Sides...1990-03-02Alan 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 t
4. 4 4. Hong Kong: Jesus Makes You Fat!1990-03-09Alan 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.
5. 5 5. Hong Kong: The Psychological Protection of Mr Lo and His Magic Compass1990-03-16Alan Whicker looks into the superstitions and belief in fortune tellers of many Hong Kong citizens.
6. 6 6. Hong Kong: I Didn't Chop Their Important Organs1990-03-23Alan 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
7. 7 7. Hong Kong: I Don't Think You'll Find Many Doormats Here1990-03-30Alan 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.
8. 8 8. Hong Kong: A Fundamental Need for Insecurity1990-04-06Alan Whicker talks to some of the many expatriates who live and work in Hong Kong.