Loading episode...

Select Server:

If one server doesn't work, try another

Whicker's World (1959)

Season 16 • Episode 2 • Hong Kong: My Great Grandfather Had Six Wives...

2 / 8

Whicker's World Season 16, Episode 2: Hong Kong: My Great Grandfather Had Six Wives...

0 0 • 7.2/10

Alan 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. Watch Whicker's World Season 16, Episode 2 Hong Kong: My Great Grandfather Had Six Wives... in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of Whicker's World Season 16, Episode 2 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

Comments

Please to post a comment.

No comments yet. Be the first to comment.

Episodes

8 episodes
1

Hong Kong: When You Lose Power You Don't Go and Grow Raspberries... You Get Hanged

Thirty years after his first visit there, Alan Whicker returns to Hong Kong and looks at its society and its political and economic structure.
2

Hong Kong: My Great Grandfather Had Six Wives...

Alan 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.
3

Hong Kong: Face Had to Be Provided for Both Sides...

Alan 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.
4

Hong Kong: Jesus Makes You Fat!

Alan 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.
5

Hong Kong: The Psychological Protection of Mr Lo and His Magic Compass

Alan Whicker looks into the superstitions and belief in fortune tellers of many Hong Kong citizens.
6

Hong Kong: I Didn't Chop Their Important Organs

Alan 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.
7

Hong Kong: I Don't Think You'll Find Many Doormats Here

Alan 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.
8

Hong Kong: A Fundamental Need for Insecurity

Alan Whicker talks to some of the many expatriates who live and work in Hong Kong.