Turned Out Nice Again Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nuggets Mahoney Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 A beautiful split screen credits and safari suit ensemble... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Allegro Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 He will be sadly missed. 'Whicker's War' is one of the best WW2 autobiographies I have read. Aged just 19 as a junior army officer he had to organise the surrender and arrest of senior SS officers in Florence in front of an angry mob who wanted to lynch them. I wonder how many 19 year olds today would manage that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honkydonkey Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 This was his house in Holland Park https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.49972,-0.202276&spn=0.002014,0.004823&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.499798,-0.202307&panoid=YCZaflyhXwAYc2wbihFoog&cbp=12,289.66,,0,-9.01 Actually on second thoughts I think this was Michael Winners house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Allegro Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Bizarre - last night I had a dream where I met the ghost of Alan Whicker in a bazaar in Tunisia. I shook his hand and told him how much I'd enjoyed his work over the years, then I woke up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosh Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 My old Dad used to watch Alan Whicker on his travels and as a young kid I remember him quite fondly. Although the world has changed and access/information is relatively easy to come by now, I remember Alan Whicker introducing us to all these weird and wonderful people in parts of the world we had never heard of. He was our man abroad. R.I.P. Mr Whicker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Allegro Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 My old Dad used to watch Alan Whicker on his travels and as a young kid I remember him quite fondly. Although the world has changed and access/information is relatively easy to come by now, I remember Alan Whicker introducing us to all these weird and wonderful people in parts of the world we had never heard of. He was our man abroad. R.I.P. Mr Whicker He also came out with some good lines. One I remember was when asked why he always dressed so smartly, he replied something like 'if millions of people are inviting me into their living rooms, I ought to pay them the compliment of being decently dressed.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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