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Alan Donald Whicker CBE (2 August 1921 – 12 July 2013) was a British journalist and television presenter and broadcaster. His career spanned almost 60 years, during which time he presented the documentary television programme Whicker's World for over 30 years. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for services to broadcasting.
Whicker was born to British parents in Cairo, Egypt, in 1921. When he was three years old, his father Charles became seriously ill and the family moved to Richmond in Surrey, where he and his mother remained after the death of his father. He attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School where he excelled at cross-country running and, after leaving school at 16 during the Second World War, he was commissioned as an officer in the Devonshire Regiment of the British Army. He then joined the British Army's Film and Photo Unit in Italy in 1943, filming at Anzio and meeting such influential figures as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. He was also responsible for taking into custody British traitor John Amery.
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Alan Whicker's passion for Hong Kong, which endured until his death. From his "Journey of a Lifetime" series, 2009.
UK TV 2004 Part 1 of 2 Alan Whicker presents the story of his war spent mostly in Italy in 1943-45. As a young officer in charge of a film unit, he takes us through modern-day Italy in colour, as he recovers his wartime tracks, with black-and-white film and still footage of the Italian Campaign, some of which he took himself.
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 François Duvalier (14 April 1907 -- 21 April 1971), also known as 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, was the President of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971. He opposed a military coup d'état in 1950, and was elected president in 1957 on a populist and black nat...
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (also Strössner or Strößner; November 3, 1912 -- August 16, 2006) was a Paraguayan military officer who served as President of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989. He ascended to the position after leading an army coup in 1954. His 35-year long rule, marked by an uninterrupted period of repression in his country, was the longest unbroken rule by one individual in the history of South America. His rule is ranked 14th-longest among other non-royal national leaders since 1870, and made him one of the world's longest-serving non-Communist heads of state. Alan Donald Whicker CBE (4 August 1921 -- 12 July 2013) was a British journalist and television presenter and broadcaster. His career spanned almost 60 years, during which time he presented the documentary television progra...
the finest documentary I've yet seen on the san Francisco music scene of the sixties.....whicker was there with his camera crew taking it all in...crashpads/community living/lsd taking/music/Avalon ballroom/chet helms/various movers and shakers/haight-ashbury /the grateful dead house and much much more.......enjoy!..p.s.i have edited out the grateful dead sequences due to copyright problems!....
"Whicker's World" from 13 Dec 1971 Alan Whicker interviews Harold Robbins, one of the most successful novelists of the 20th Century, and looks at his lifestyle in New York and the south of France
A tropical island inhabited by a bunch of Alan Whicker look-alike interviewers
Whicker's World Classic Full Documentary - Penang, Malaysia 1976 Whicker arrives in Penang for the islands spectacular Thalpusam festival, Where entranced pilgrims pierce themselves with giant spikes. He also meets a Scottish doctor still living in the style of the British Raj
Most amusing.
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On the last ever episode of Anderson On The Box, Gerry Anderson meets legendary broadcaster Alan Whicker
"Whicker's World" from 13 Dec 1971 Alan Whicker interviews Harold Robbins, one of the most successful novelists of the 20th Century, and looks at his lifestyle in New York and the south of France
Whicker's World is an award-winning British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker. Whicker's World is an award-winning British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker.
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 François Duvalier (14 April 1907 -- 21 April 1971), also known as 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, was the President of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971. He opposed a military coup d'état in 1950, and was elected president in 1957 on a populist and black nat...
First broadcast on BBC 1 on 25 March 1967, this 53 minute episode of Whicker's world sees Alan Whicker bounce around the set of 'You Only Live TwiceYou Only Live Twice' (1967), and takes him not only to Pinewood Studios but also to the film's exotic Japanese locations. Whicker interviews producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, chats to screenwriter Roald Dahl, learns the secrets of a successful Bond girl, and experiences first hand the sometimes bruising 'Bondomania' that attends the star, Sean Connery, wherever he happens to be.
Based on the novel by Terry Southern. A billionaire and his adopted son travel about playing huge practical jokes on people. Has cameos with a young John Cleese and Graham Chapman, plus Roman Polanski, Yul Brenner, Christopher Lee, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Richard Attenborough, Laurence Harvey, Nosher Powel, and Alan Whicker. All copyright belongs to the original publisher and associated parties. For more information on this film go to: http://rexhurstspeaks.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-magic-christian-comedy-exposing-how.html
UK TV 2004 Part 1 of 2 Alan Whicker presents the story of his war spent mostly in Italy in 1943-45. As a young officer in charge of a film unit, he takes us through modern-day Italy in colour, as he recovers his wartime tracks, with black-and-white film and still footage of the Italian Campaign, some of which he took himself.
YTV - 07 Apr. 1970 A somewhat comical look at South Americas last dictator, Stroessner. Ruled by German descent Dictator Stroessner, Paraguay is home to fugitive Nazi war criminals Martin Bormann (Hitler's deputy), Heinrich Muller (Gestapo Chief) & Josef Mengele (Bavaria born Auschwitz doctor).
UK TV 2004 Part 2 of 2 Alan Whicker presents the story of his war spent mostly in Italy in 1943-45. As a young officer in charge of a film unit, he takes us through modern-day Italy in colour, as he recovers his wartime tracks, with black-and-white film and still footage of the Italian Campaign, some of which he took himself.