Alan Whicker returns..........
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to our screens tonight..
Alan Whicker's Journey of a Lifetime Wednesday 25 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2
"I've had the luckiest of lives," admits Alan Whicker here, as he casts his eye over a staggering TV career. Seeing the archive clips of him in Venice or St Moritz or John Paul Getty's mansion, it's hard to argue, although the real stroke of luck was arriving at a time when he could be the first to bring stories from bullfighting to plastic surgery to our screens. The only drawback was that his style worked so well that it became endlessly mockable on Monty Python and elsewhere. The earnest delivery has softened over the years, but the florid tendencies are still there ("My regrets haunt those old grey stones and these old grey bones," he muses on a Venetian bridge). You can forgive him the odd touch of nostalgia, given how well the original interviews stand up. Whicker had a gift for making people reveal themselves, from Getty to Robin Douglas-Home, whose aristocratic tears on camera while talking about his divorce are still touching. As greatest hits packages go, not many broadcasters could beat this.
Radio Times reviewer - David Butcher
Alan Whicker's Journey of a Lifetime Wednesday 25 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2
"I've had the luckiest of lives," admits Alan Whicker here, as he casts his eye over a staggering TV career. Seeing the archive clips of him in Venice or St Moritz or John Paul Getty's mansion, it's hard to argue, although the real stroke of luck was arriving at a time when he could be the first to bring stories from bullfighting to plastic surgery to our screens. The only drawback was that his style worked so well that it became endlessly mockable on Monty Python and elsewhere. The earnest delivery has softened over the years, but the florid tendencies are still there ("My regrets haunt those old grey stones and these old grey bones," he muses on a Venetian bridge). You can forgive him the odd touch of nostalgia, given how well the original interviews stand up. Whicker had a gift for making people reveal themselves, from Getty to Robin Douglas-Home, whose aristocratic tears on camera while talking about his divorce are still touching. As greatest hits packages go, not many broadcasters could beat this.
Radio Times reviewer - David Butcher
Whicker Island ----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn8Pua5rhj4
This is really funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbeo2jGOEcs&NR=... just spoiled by the canned laughter
te TV all week except Wednesday when they put three good programmes on at the same time, this, Apprentice and Grand Designs
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