Whicker's World

Whicker's World
Title screen (1978—80), featuring Concorde
Genre	Documentary
Presented by	Alan Whicker
Theme music composer	"West End" by Laurie Johnson (until 1968); "Horizons" by Frank Talley and The New Concert Orchestra (1968-77); Andrew Lloyd Webber (1978–80); "Newsweek" by Graham de Wilde (1984)
Production company(s)	BBC Yorkshire Television
Release
Original network	BBC, ITV
Picture format	4:3 b&w/colour film
Audio format	mono

Whicker's World is a British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker.

Originally a segment on the BBC's Tonight programme in 1958, Whicker's World became a fully-fledged television series in its own right in the 1960s. The series was first shown by the BBC until 1968, and then by ITV from 1968 to 1983, when it was produced by Yorkshire Television, in which Whicker himself was a shareholder. The series returned to the BBC in 1984, and to ITV again in 1992.

Whicker reported stories of social interest from around the world. His interviewees included locals, politicians, celebrities, and even convicted criminals as he reported on stories as far ranging as military dictatorships, British expatriates, the feminist movement of the 1970s, the Tanka people of Hong Kong, the American Gay Rights movement, the building of Disneyworld in Florida, and the plastic surgery industry. Among his interviewees were actors Peter Sellers, Joan Collins, Britt Ekland, Liza Minnelli, and Christopher Lee, Haitian dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Paraguayan dictator Don Alfredo Stroessner, novelist Harold Robbins, Lula Parker Betenson (the 94-year-old sister of the outlaw Butch Cassidy), the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah (reputedly the richest man in the world at the time of filming), opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, several former Maharajas of India, and various members of the .