A Fast Boat to China: 4. Hong Kong - Tsingtao
- Episode aired Jan 25, 1984
- 50m
Four-part documentary in which Alan Whicker interviews his fellow passengers on a three-month cruise in the Pacific.Four-part documentary in which Alan Whicker interviews his fellow passengers on a three-month cruise in the Pacific.Four-part documentary in which Alan Whicker interviews his fellow passengers on a three-month cruise in the Pacific.
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- Trivia'Hong Kong' was formally a Chinese territory that was ceded to the United Kingdom in the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, and became a 'British Overseas Territory'. Hong Kong was was still under United Kingdom Sovereignty at the time of the making of this programme in 1983. Sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China (PRC) at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rule in the former colony.
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Self - Presenter: [Closing Statement] Passengers have their own ways of trying to get their money's worth. The easiest way I suppose is to masticate your moneys worth, to eat four enormous meals a day, this is most popular. One Steward recalled a woman who who insisted upon caviar with every meal including breakfast, and when she went ashore on excursions she had caviar sandwiches. We also have our big spenders, there's one chap on a day trip to Bangkok, who in the shop in the hotel lobby bought a £25,000 ruby necklace while he was waiting for the bus, it was a kind of shop where I would have thought twice about my atire. But shopping is the second most favorite past-time after eating, one couple I recall bought so many things on an earlier cruise, had so many suitcases, cabin trunks, tin trunks in a stateroom, that they had to move a bed out in order to make room, and the husband told me that was the first time he'd slept with his wife for years, so some women will do anything to go shopping. Another woman came on board this ship with 27 trunks, the Steward told me that he thought it was for the ship shop and then she went ashore, he said, and she bought another 3, they were to contain the things she was buying as she went along. The trouble with all is buying and all these clothes of course is the packing, and there's one woman on board here today who told me that when she gets back to Los Angeles and she's done the whole Pacific cruise, right the way around, when she gets back to Los Angeles she's going to fly out a maid and a man-servant from Switzerland just to do the packing for her. We do have other unusual characters on board, I was being told by the Captain no less, one woman who rang up in the middle of the night her Steward and said "Order me a taxi" and the Steward said "Madam we're in mid-Pacific" and she said "That Son, is your problem". Now romance, of course that's the shipboard topic for romance on the moonlit deck, some women are not prepared to hang around and wait for Cupid to hit them with his with his arrow, they tend to want to give him a bit of a nudge. The way they do it, in one case is to fly out a chap to every port, one woman has flown out a boyfriend to every port and flown the old one back...
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Self - Presenter: And while we're on the subject, and since nobody's listening, I must confess that since we've been on this ship, a member of the 'Whicker's world' team has got engaged. So never underestimate the power of a cruise.
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