on BBC iPlayer. Youtube is awash with Whicker programmes. Whicker’s Worlds is, like the past, another country. Never before or since have far-flung destinations seemed so close or so colourful.
What would he have made of “staycations” and lockdowns? It’s anyone’s guess, but, as he quipped as he boarded the Orient Express at Victoria station at the commencement of a five-week flying, cruising, all-frills “package tour”, “Start the world, I want to get on!”Tickets for the Alan Whicker centenary are £15.
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