Hong Kong
8 episodes · Feb 16, 1990
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- S16E1
Hong Kong: When You Lose Power You Don't Go and Grow Raspberries... You Get Hanged
Feb 16, 1990Thirty years after his first visit there, Alan Whicker returns to Hong Kong and looks at its society and its political and economic structure.
- S16E2
Hong Kong: My Great Grandfather Had Six Wives...
Feb 23, 1990Alan Whicker tours the waterfront on a craft owned by a Chinese man who reads The Times and smokes cigars, meets a businessman who serves caviar with a pearl shovel, and a woman who is a telecommunications tycoon who visits soothsayers.
- S16E3
Hong Kong: Face Had to Be Provided for Both Sides...
Mar 2, 1990Alan Whicker looks at the treatment of the widows of the men killed when defending the colony in 1941, to a police chief about how illegal immigrants are treated on both sides of the border, and the immensely wealthy Kadoorie family.
- S16E4
Hong Kong: Jesus Makes You Fat!
Mar 9, 1990Alan Whicker looks at drugs, crime and capital punishment in Hong Kong, and meets Christian missionary Jackie Pullinger who rescues drug addicts in the Walled City.
- S16E5
Hong Kong: The Psychological Protection of Mr Lo and His Magic Compass
Mar 16, 1990Alan Whicker looks into the superstitions and belief in fortune tellers of many Hong Kong citizens.
- S16E6
Hong Kong: I Didn't Chop Their Important Organs
Mar 23, 1990Alan Whicker examines Hong Kong's organised crime syndicate, The Triads, and meets a lawyer who used to prosecute them, a priest who befriended them, and a Traid "enforcer" who is now on the run from them.
- S16E7
Hong Kong: I Don't Think You'll Find Many Doormats Here
Mar 30, 1990Alan Whicker talks to some of the working, professional women of Hong Kong, both Chinese and European, about their work, roles and the attitudes towards them.
- S16E8
Hong Kong: A Fundamental Need for Insecurity
Apr 6, 1990Alan Whicker talks to some of the many expatriates who live and work in Hong Kong.