Whicker's World (1959)
Whicker's World is an award-winning British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker. Originally a segment on the BBC's Tonight programme in 1958, Whicker's World became a fully-fledged television series in its own right in the 1960s. The series was first shown by the BBC until 1968, and then by ITV from 1969 to 1983, when it was produced by Yorkshire Television, in which Whicker himself was a shareholder. The series returned to the BBC in 1984, and to ITV again in 1992.
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- 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Hong Kong: A Fundamental Need for Insecurity1990-04-06Alan Whicker talks to some of the many expatriates who live and work in Hong Kong.
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