In the first of a new four-part series of programmes featuring Alan Whicker aboard the flagship of 'Cunard', the mighty 'Queen Elizabeth 2' cruise-liner. It's early 1983 and the 'QE2' is on her three-month winter voyage around the Pacific - the ultimate cruise. On another of his infamous travels, Alan Whicker considers the buoyant upstairs-downstairs life experienced sailing around the Pacific in 80 days. Here Whicker is dazzled by emeralds too enormous not to be real, surprised by the most unlikely pampered passenger, disappointed by the ship's underwhelming steering wheel, swayed by native South Sea islanders - and tempted into dubious sinful behaviour.
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