Season 5

Whicker's South Seas

Whicker's World

6 episodes13/02/1973

Episodes

Episode 1
S5 · E1 · 13/02/1973

Whicker's South Seas: Laughing All the Way to the Bank

Alan Whicker visits the Republic of Nauru, an island with an area of eight square miles situated in the Pacific Ocean, 26 miles south of the Equator.

Episode 2
S5 · E2 · 20/02/1973

Whicker's South Seas: If We Were Over-Confident We'd Be Dead

Alan Whicker looks at New Zealand's venison industry, which exports three million tons of meat a year to Europe (mainly Germany) and the U.S.A.

Episode 3
S5 · E3 · 27/02/1973

Whicker's South Seas: Poor People Are Always Unhappy...

Alan Whicker compares lifestyles on the Samoan Islands - American Samoa, a territory receiving 36 million dollars annually from the U.S., and Western Samoa, 65 miles away, which is one of the World's poorest nations.

Episode 4
S5 · E4 · 06/03/1973

Whicker's South Seas: The Only Compliment - She's a Good Sport...

Alan Whicker interviews various New Zealand women on the role of women in their society. He meets author Dame Ngaio Marsh, Women's Liberation leader Sue Kedgley, and a housewife, an editor and a female lorry driver.

Episode 5
S5 · E5 · 13/03/1973

Whicker's South Seas: People Like Me Go Native...

Alan Whicker looks at life on the volcanic island of Tanna in the South Pacific

Episode 6
S5 · E6 · 20/03/1973

Whicker's South Seas: New Zealand's Got a Real Clobbering Machine...

Alan Whicker meets a number of British emigrants to New Zealand, some of whom are content with their lives there and others who are longing to return to the U.K.

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