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| Broadcaster Alan Whicker dies at 87 | Broadcaster Alan Whicker dies at 87 |
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| Journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker has died at the age of 87 after suffering from bronchial pneumonia. | |
| His spokeswoman said he died in the early hours of Friday morning at his home in Jersey. | |
| With a TV career that stretched nearly six decades, he was best known for his long-running documentary series, Whicker's World. | With a TV career that stretched nearly six decades, he was best known for his long-running documentary series, Whicker's World. |
| The show, which ran from 1959 to 1988 on both the BBC and ITV, saw him travel all over the world. | |
| The series featured Whicker reporting on the unusual and bizarre, interviewing all types of people from millionaires and monks to gangsters and dictators. | |
| He once said he counted himself one of the luckiest men in the world because he enjoyed his work so much. | |
| After joining the British Army at the end of World War II, it was his stint as the editor of the British Army newspaper that whetted Whicker's appetite for a future in journalism. | |
| He joined the BBC in 1957, where he became a correspondent for the flagship current affairs show Tonight. | |
| There he was credited with bringing interview techniques like walking to camera and cutaways to television. | |
| But it was Whicker's World, a perennially popular ratings winner, that made him a household name. | |
| The show even inspired a famous Monty Python sketch about Whicker Island, a mythical place populated by Alan look-alikes awaiting that "inevitable interview". | |
| Whicker moved to Jersey in the 1970s after visiting many times in the '60s, saying the slow pace of life attracted him to the island. | |
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