One of the most incredible fly-on-the-wall documentaries ever made in which a film crew lives with the schizophrenic residents of a group home based upon radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing's controversial approach to healing through compassion and freedom. "Asylum I think is to say a safe place to be when you're frightened and alone." It is in such disarmingly basic terms that the British psychiatrist R. D. Laing defines his therapeutic community in London.
Alan Whicker is a globe-trotting television commentator without equal. For some forty years on behalf of both the BBC and independent British television networks he has roamed far and wide in search of the eccentric the ludicrous and the socially-revealing aspects of everyday life as lived by some of the more colourful of the world's inhabitants. For the very first time Whicker's World is brought to DVD on this volume one of the series.
A broadcasting legend and one of the most recognisable faces on British television, Alan Whicker worked his own brand of quietly incisive journalism for over fifty years. A consummate interviewer with a famously affable, urbane style, his popular, award-winning documentaries continue to be a significant influence to this day. In this volume Whicker explores aspects of the Caribbean and Florida. From an encounter with the future first prime minster of Grenada to the vanishing tribes of Anguilla and Dominica, from the ghost-ridden ruins of Devil's Island to Walt Disney World in construction, Whicker taking a look behind the scenes in paradise... Editions included are: Devil's Island - The Dry Guillotine Mustique: A Giddy Head - In Paradise Everybody Knows The Secret Police Pixie Dust On Goody-Goody Land In The Amazon Jungle - A White Elephant I Do My Duty When I Feel Like It I'll Say Thank-You Dear England, Is That What You Want? We Do Nothing Superbly I Wanted To Welcome Prince Phillip, But I Was Too Tied Up Harold Robbins - I'm The Worlds' Best Writer As Long As You're Rude Enough - They're Happy
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