Whicker's World (TV Series)

A Fast Boat to China: 1. Tahiti - Wellington (1984)

Alan Whicker: Self - Presenter

Quotes 

• Self - Presenter : [Introduction]  Dr. Johnson said a ship was a prison with a chance of being drowned, but this ship takes the sea out of seafaring. Up-close, 'Queen Elizabeth 2' is overwhelming, long as a street, tall as a skyscraper far too big to sing and this leviathans no longer just a liner in the classic transatlantic tradition, but a resort hotel that follows the Sun. You relax, they move the scenery...

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  Self - Presenter : And should any resident of this floating city ever smell the ocean, they come in and fix the air-conditioning.

• Self - Presenter : [End Narration]  Cruise-liners are not mere transportation, indeed wealthy women once lived aboard and this very special lady is a Cacoon, a provider of fantasies. Also if you will, a cabaret, a country club, health farm, casino, school. Indeed whatever backgrounds required for an escape from reality

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  Self - Presenter : It's a lot to ask of any one place, but cruisers keep returning because despite random shipboard absurdities it is the last good game in town. In the evening sunlight suitably escorted the 'QE2' sets sail for Australia, out across the Tasman Sea, while within the stately rhythm of her unhurried days passengers and crew begin to understand each other's eccentricities

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  Self - Presenter : after all, we're all in the same boat.