#OnThisDay 1961: A mermaid, a unicorn's horn and a plant that could kill - Alan Whicker took a look at some fantastical forgeries. | BBC Archive

#OnThisDay 1983: Debonair globetrotter Alan Whicker explained why Jersey was his kind of place. | BBC Archive

What sort of thing did Australians expect to find in England? 🌏 #OnThisDay 1961: Alan Whicker interviewed some Aussies just before they set sail from Melbourne to Essex. | BBC Archive

#OTD 1917 John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1963 Alan Whicker visited some of his Irish relatives for BBC Television #JFK | BBC Archive

#OnThisDay 1960: Alan Whicker learned the secret language of Italians. | BBC Archive

#OnThisDay 60 years ago, Whicker Down Under was broadcast. On the programme, Alan Whicker spoke to some of the more intrepid British immigrants to #Australia who were taking the less trodden path to live in the outback. | BBC Archive

#OnThisDay 1961: Alan Whicker asked some Tilbury-bound Australians what they expected Britain to be like. | BBC Archive

In 1962, Alan Whicker met Burt and Su Lum, an adventurous New Jersey couple who chose to tough it out in the Alaskan wilderness. | BBC Archive