Alan Whicker tells some tales and visits ex-prisoners from Devil's Island, the infamous French Prison. I do not own this/ educational purposes.
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@jasminespencer3992 Жыл бұрын
I love how he explores the jungle in a suit and tie.
@glasgowgallus2472 ай бұрын
It's Allan Whicker... he was BORN in a suit... it was his uniform as he stormed around the world, fearlessly confronting some of the globe's psychos, with his plummy tones as his sword, and his nylon shirts as his shield...😂... a legend...🏴👍
@clouddog2393 Жыл бұрын
Watched this as a 17 year old teenager in 1971 . Remember it well . I believe Whickers World was shown on Monday evenings at nine . T.V was so much better in those days .
@mikewinston870911 ай бұрын
I was 16 😂. Recall it very well. Fabulous television compared with today.
@tomdobbs27332 ай бұрын
Better telly back then you only had two channels
@glasgowgallus2472 ай бұрын
Damn right ot was... TV had 'events' then... 3 channels, and when Whicker was on, all stopped to watch... legend... 👍🏴
@MrMedtech1437 Жыл бұрын
Man strolled into a jungle prison with oppressive humidity, rocking polyester...savage.
@KonradAdenauerJr2 жыл бұрын
It's quite something to see a documentary about the infamous penal colony with people who still remembered when the prison was active. Amazing that Alan even found a former inmate who spoke English.
@wixskid2 жыл бұрын
Now that where the good days of journalism
@christophersantana58952 жыл бұрын
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT.
@Mr0310682 жыл бұрын
A full suit and tie in that tropic heat
@mattdixon6396 Жыл бұрын
And didn’t even break a sweat. I’d be drenched!
@robertafierro5592 Жыл бұрын
The suits believe it or not are cool, and don't forget about the cool breeze off the ocean in the morning..it wasn't this hot 20.years ago..
@robertafierro5592 Жыл бұрын
The suit looks very thin, anyway I didn't realize this was produced over 50 years ago.
@flashtheoriginal3 ай бұрын
WaddanEnglishMan. 🏴
@byronbass54858 күн бұрын
@@robertafierro5592definitely still hot 20 years ago. In 2000
@glasgowgallus2472 ай бұрын
Whicker really invented abd defined the travel show genre... Hell, when Michael Palin began his 'Around The World in 80 Days...' adventure, lunch with Whicker was an essential pre-amble before departure... a British legend...🏴👍
@mikewinston870911 ай бұрын
Whicker really was quite first class. Hugely erudite and urbane…..always correctly turned out too; an Englishman abroad. Such a change from the vulgar Phillip Schofield sorts today….
@jakecavendish347011 ай бұрын
This place sounds like the luxury version of Blackpool
@saxonjohn246 ай бұрын
I've been to Blackpool and I agree with you.
@jakecavendish34706 ай бұрын
@@saxonjohn24 lol
@trytellingthetruth.20686 ай бұрын
You're being a bit unfair to devil's island.
@glasgowgallus2472 ай бұрын
Ah, Blackpool... a sad decline... I've had better nights on the roof of Barlinnie jail in freezing February...🤣👍🏴... But its not the worst, but then, I've stayed in some Brittannia hotels...🤣🤣👍🏴
@Eire_Go_Deo2 жыл бұрын
Now this is journalism!
@jefflinton Жыл бұрын
Brilliant Alan Whicker
@hoochrussell312611 ай бұрын
I visited Devil's Island in 1977 on a family vacation... not the greatest place on earth to go for a swim...yet me being only 7 at the time did so...I remember mum ringing a bell to show me how dangerous swimming in the water actually was...so my advice would be...listen to your mother ...I remember it like it was yesterday...
@antoniocruz808310 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing the story. According to the account ringing a bell actually attracted sharks. I think your mom meant well though.
@andiestewart742318 күн бұрын
I would love to visit. Morbid curiosity I guess
@ashleysaunders99472 ай бұрын
Dry gullitine is a brilliant autobiography. Renee belbenoit.
@elliotgregory33562 жыл бұрын
Just finished watching Papillon on Netflix. Even if it was embellished what an achievement to survive that
@wasa2132 жыл бұрын
Same here! Amazing
@elliotgregory33562 жыл бұрын
@@wasa213 Must have been brutal
@tarbuck1 Жыл бұрын
Reminds of the Whicker Island sketch by Monty Python
@johnathandaviddunster387 ай бұрын
The Froggy Alf Garnett was a barrel of laughs 😂😅😂😅🐸🐸🐸🐸
@ChessemillPerezChristopher Жыл бұрын
What one can wonder what it was like before civilization, there had to be the same impulse to go against the accepted norm. What happen to the unruly? Straight up murder ? Great doc: I thought of the McQueen film
@Lord-DJ3 ай бұрын
I can't help thinking that institutions of this nature will return in our lifetimes.
@JosephLupoli Жыл бұрын
Sheesh! That penal colony makes super-max seem like a country club by comparison.
@cool_cat007smoove33 жыл бұрын
The Frenchman was not playing around with crime.
@Stiffd12 жыл бұрын
Bet Alan was a devil on the dance floor ..look how he handles that pontoon with nifty footwork!
@tB3o3tR9o92 жыл бұрын
the sadistic satanic French government even stop within the Foreign Legion
@antonius_0063 ай бұрын
Couldn't they fish or swim there ?
@jimanderson65446 ай бұрын
Papillon
@allybally002111 ай бұрын
Whicker covering this like a failing hotel rather than a maximum security jail.
@truthlifefishing1730 Жыл бұрын
Le Gulag
@garyrigby216 ай бұрын
He's no Bald and Bankrupt
@OwenAllRound5 ай бұрын
Good, that guy’s a tosser
@simonsimon3253 ай бұрын
Certainly not. This guy can mix with the rich and the poor. Bald sticks exclusively to the poor, where he can play the big man. He'd be out of his depth with the wealthy.
@user-xt3gh6du9r3 ай бұрын
No , it isn’t very pretty , what a town without pity can do.
@johnw19548 ай бұрын
this is cartoonish
@darylcumming711910 ай бұрын
Notice the arrogance of the presenter, again. No wonder he became an figure of satire .
@therealrodhull19 ай бұрын
He was in WW2 as a photographer, and nearly died. He's seen a lot
@darylcumming71199 ай бұрын
@@therealrodhull1 it does not justify his attitude of looking down at other's.
@therealrodhull19 ай бұрын
@@darylcumming7119 He doesnt 'look down' on others. You've read him wrongly.
@darylcumming71199 ай бұрын
@@therealrodhull1 The former British Empire attitude " born to rule" .
@therealrodhull19 ай бұрын
@@darylcumming7119 "Empire attitude " born to rule"... How have you come to that conclusion? You dont know that he thinks that.
@DutchVanHelsing4 күн бұрын
This is the scene that makes you think of Monty Python.