Blondes Beware... Whicker's Back! ; He's Made No Secret of Loathing Today's Travel Show Bimbos.Now Alan Whicker Is Returning to Show Them How It's Done
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The prospect of interviewing one of television's great inquisitors is a faintly nerve-wracking one. When your subject has carved out a 50-year career turning his keen bespectacled gaze on everyone, from exotic sultans and cosmetic surgeons, to billionaires and island despots, it's hard not to feel under scrutiny yourself.
At the grand old age of 83, Alan Whicker has recently packed his suitcase once more to revisit some of his most colourful destinations and subjects for a four-part BBC retrospective. It's quite uncanny how little he's changed. The thick-rimmed glasses, the dapper suit, the briefcase, the unmistakable, gravelly-yet-honeyed delivery to camera, it's all still there.See the full content of this document
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Blondes Beware... Whicker's Back! ; He's Made No Secret of Loathing Today's Travel Show Bimbos.Now Alan Whicker Is Returning to Show Them How It's Done
A mere glimpse at past shows unfurls an extraordinary montage of Hollywood superstars, naked ladies, politicians, nuns, gay policemen, trains, planes and automobiles as well as a series of impressive television firsts: from John Paul Getty telling Whicker he was worried he 'might be a little on the dull sid...
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