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Alan Whicker's career spanned six decades
Journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker has died at the age of 87 after suffering from bronchial pneumonia.
His spokeswoman said he died in the early hours of Friday morning at his home in Jersey.
With a TV career that stretched nearly six decades, he was best known for his long-running documentary series, Whicker's World.
The show, which ran from 1959 to 1988 on both the BBC and ITV, saw him travel all over the world.
The series featured Whicker reporting on the unusual and bizarre, interviewing all types of people from millionaires and monks to gangsters and dictators.
He once said he counted himself one of the luckiest men in the world because he enjoyed his work so much.
After joining the British Army at the end of World War II, it was his stint as the editor of the British Army newspaper that whetted Whicker's appetite for a future in journalism.
He joined the BBC in 1957, where he became a correspondent for the flagship current affairs show Tonight.
There he was credited with bringing interview techniques like walking to camera and cutaways to television.
But it was Whicker's World, a perennially popular ratings winner, that made him a household name.
The show even inspired a famous Monty Python sketch about Whicker Island, a mythical place populated by Alan look-alikes awaiting that "inevitable interview".
Whicker moved to Jersey in the 1970s after visiting many times in the '60s, saying the slow pace of life attracted him to the island.
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