In a lazy, ill-organized and carelessly written book, Alan Whicker
recyles the transcriptions of many of his 'Whicker's World'
programmes, enlivening them slightly by descriptions of the
settings for his interviews - the palace of the Sultan of Brunei,
the QE2, the Orient Express and so on. Often out of date, these
interviews are rarely interesting. Intensely self-regarding, he
delivers diatribe after diatribe about the dreadful depths to which
British television have descended since he ceased to appear on it;
his name-dropping is so desperate that, after describing his
conversations with Princess Michael of Kent, Joan Collins and
Pavarotti, he even drops the names of those wealthy people who have
become his 'friends' when their only interest for the reader is
their wealth - one has not heard of many of them. This is a book
which should be confined immediately to the remainder shelves, for
which in my view it is destined. (Kirkus UK)
Following on from the best-selling first volume of his
autobiography, Within Whicker's World, Alan Whicker presents a
hugely entertaining and characteristically insightful second volume
that will delight his army of devoted fans. We've all been around
the world many times with Alan Whicker - and every expedition has
been fun. Our guide and travelling companion for over forty years,
this wry observer has revealed secret worlds and let us eavesdrop
on the powerful, the villainous, the exotic...Throughout his years
as Foreign Correspondent and then television's Man Around the
World, Whicker has covered everything from wars and revolutions to
plastic surgery and mudmen. His belief that you can ask anyone
anything as long as you do it pleasantly gained him access to the
elusive and the secret: voodoo rituals in Haiti, drug squads in
Singapore, bank raids in San Francisco, ashrams in India, polar
bears in Alaska - even the social fortress of Palm Beach. With
instinctive curiosity and a nose for a great story, he has lived a
life of adventure, excitement and danger, winning a raft of awards
from peers and public. His genius is to make everything that
happens in Whicker's World look easy. This lightness of touch
encourages the hesitant interviewee, disarms the threatening
Dictator. Whicker has influenced a generation of fellow
journalists, helped the careers of a gaggle of impersonators and,
most important of all, encouraged the rest of us to travel and
explore. In this book, we go with him to the palaces of the Sultan
of Brunei, watch Luciano Pavarotti make life hell on a paradise
island and consider the mysterious death of a colleague on the
First Sea Lord's flagship. We learn why India is the best place to
murder your husband, and discover the amiable Mexican sponger who
was a top state secret policeman. We meet a little old Californian
lady who always shot them straight between the eyes and a dolphin
who accepts credit cards. In a dusty African game park one cheetah
and 156 people struggle to overcome a Masai curse
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