Editing Alan Whicker (section)

== Broadcasting career ==

After the war, Whicker became a journalist and broadcaster, acting as a newspaper correspondent during the [[Korean War]]. After joining the [[BBC]] in 1957, he became an international reporter for its ''[[Tonight (BBC television programme)|Tonight]]'' programme. In 1958, he started presenting ''[[Whicker's World]]'', which began life as a segment on the ''Tonight'' programme before becoming a fully-fledged series itself in the 1960s. ''Whicker's World'' was filmed all over the globe and became a huge ratings success in the UK. Whicker continued to present the series up until the 1990s, and he won a [[BAFTA Award]] in 1964 for his presentation in the Factual category;<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Television Nominations 1964 |url=http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/nominations/?year=1964 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815051437/http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/nominations/?year=1964 |archive-date=Aug 15, 2010 |access-date=9 October 2010 |publisher=BAFTA}}</ref> he also won the [[Richard Dimbleby Award]] at the 1978 BAFTA ceremony.<ref name=":0" /> Whicker was instrumental in launching [[Yorkshire Television]] (which made ''Whicker's World'' for some years), producing television programmes for it from 1969 until 1992. At the beginning of the ITV series, Whicker made ''Papa Doc – The Black Sheep'' (1969)<ref>Tise Vahimagi {{Cite web |title=Whicker, Alan (1925–) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/531470/index.html |access-date=12 July 2013 |publisher=BFI Screenonline}}</ref> on Haiti and its dictator [[François Duvalier|François "Papa Doc" Duvalier]] who made himself available to Whicker and his team.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Calder |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Calder |date=4 September 2010 |title=A well-travelled man: Veteran broadcaster Alan Whicker reveals his globetrotting tips |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/a-welltravelled-man-veteran-broadcaster-alan-whicker-reveals-his-globetrotting-tips-2067728.html |url-access=registration |access-date=12 July 2013 |work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref>

Whicker appeared in various adverts for [[American Express]]<ref name="telegraphobit">{{Cite web |date=12 July 2013 |title=Alan Whicker |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/10176308/Alan-Whicker.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=12 July 2013 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref> and [[Barclaycard]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 June 2011 |title=Barclaycard: 45 years of credit cards in the UK |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/8603986/Barclaycard-45-years-of-credit-cards-in-the-UK.html?image=6 |access-date=12 July 2013 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |quote=In 1982 the travel journalist Alan Whicker appeared in a series of adverts spanning five years focusing on the acceptability of the Barclaycard in thousands of shops, restaurants and businesses around the world.}}</ref> and was also the man behind the advertising slogan "Hello World", for [[travelocity]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/magazine/articles/interviews/alan-whicker-interview?page=all|archive-url = https://archive.today/20130713030940/http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/magazine/articles/interviews/alan-whicker-interview?page=all|url-status = dead|archive-date = 2013-07-13|work = [[Wanderlust (magazine)|Wanderlust]] |title = Alan Whicker interview|date = October 2004|access-date = 12 July 2013}}</ref> He narrated the 2007 and 2008 BBC documentary series ''[[Comedy Map of Britain]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Comedy Map of Britain |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tsm5 |access-date=12 July 2013 |publisher=BBC |quote=Alan Whicker narrates an animated journey around the UK, pinpointing the special places that have inspired and affected our major comic talents}}</ref>

In the [[2005 New Year Honours]] Whicker was created a [[Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] for services to [[broadcasting]].<ref name=bbc/> In 2009, then aged 88, Whicker returned to some of the locations and people who were originally featured in ''Whicker's World'' for the BBC series ''Alan Whicker's Journey of a Lifetime''. In this, he met various people whom he had interviewed decades earlier to see how their lives had progressed or changed since the initial programme.<ref name="lifetime">{{Cite web |last=Howse |first=Christoper |date=16 March 2009 |title=Alan Whicker interview: a journey of a lifetime |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5000960/Alan-Whicker-interview-a-journey-of-a-lifetime.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=12 July 2013 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref>

He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (UK TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1983 when he was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] at the Berkeley Hotel in Kensington, London.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}