TV
Alan Whicker is making a short television series revisiting Whicker's World.
The veteran presenter will front a four-part series, to air in the autumn, called Alan Whicker's Journey of a Lifetime.
It will feature clips of high-profile interviews, such as the last given by Peter Sellers, from throughout the original's 30-year run.
Whicker will also make new pieces on some of his favourite subjects and individuals from the show. Among those will be a convent in Solihull, which he was the first to visit, and a plastic surgeon in the US.
The new series will be made by David Green, now chairman of September Films, who worked on several Whicker's World episodes when a director at Yorkshire Television.
Green said: "He is a major TV star and to anyone over 40 he has been a part of their upbringing.
"He is the David Niven of journalism with the charm of a bygone age. People would open up for him. That's what he did for factual television."
The veteran presenter will front a four-part series, to air in the autumn, called Alan Whicker's Journey of a Lifetime.
It will feature clips of high-profile interviews, such as the last given by Peter Sellers, from throughout the original's 30-year run.
Whicker will also make new pieces on some of his favourite subjects and individuals from the show. Among those will be a convent in Solihull, which he was the first to visit, and a plastic surgeon in the US.
The new series will be made by David Green, now chairman of September Films, who worked on several Whicker's World episodes when a director at Yorkshire Television.
Green said: "He is a major TV star and to anyone over 40 he has been a part of their upbringing.
"He is the David Niven of journalism with the charm of a bygone age. People would open up for him. That's what he did for factual television."
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