ALAN WHICKER

British broadcaster, journalist

1 Alan Whicker, who travelled the world in a TV career stretching 60 yrs, died at the age of 87 on Saturday

2 Whicker, whose famous television programme, Whicker’s World, ran for more than 3 decades

3 Whicker’s World was a combination of travelogue and social commentary

4 Running from 1959 to 1988, first on the BBC and later on ITV, it returned to the corporation in the 1980s. He returned to television in 2009 with Alan Whicker’s Journey of a Lifetime

5 Born in Cairo in 1925, Whicker became a journalist after the II world war with news agency Exchange Telegraph and worked as a correspondent during the Korean war