Hong Kong

1990-02-16

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

1990-02-23

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.

1990-03-02

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.

1990-03-09

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.

1990-03-16

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

1990-03-23

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.

1990-03-30

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.

1990-04-06

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