Whicker's World

The Sisters of the Order of Poor Clares, having taken perpetual vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, can never leave their convent. In the first episode of his new series, Alan Whicker reveals their hidden world to us - but although St Clare is the patron saint of television, the nuns will never see this programme made about them.

Whicker meets 36 year old Patricia, a merry warm-hearted woman and the mother of nine children by a variety of fathers. She is also a criminal who has been an inmate of Holloway five times. She specialises in housebreaking and shoplifting, but her lifetime of crime has included smash-and-grab, hi-jacking, gaol-breaking and armed robbery. Patricia provides a revealing picture of a criminals' mind, and then speaks of the revelation which transformed her moods and attitude from then onward.

Women on parade - Whicker meets seven new recruits to the Women's Royal Army Corps, and follows them through their initial training.

Alan Whicker speaks with five different women who can more than compete in a man's world. He talks to pilot Yvonne Sintes, who is the only British woman flying scheduled airliners; a woman engineer; a film stunt-girl; a woman cricketer; and Ivy Benson, leader of the famous all-girl band.

Bachelor Alan Whicker explores the spectrum of romance, 1972-style, ranging from detached computer dating to the never-never land of the romantic writer - seeking out the advice of authoress Barbara Cartland in the process.

Alan Whicker meets the Doghouse girls - wives of Grand Prix motor-racing drivers - trackside at the British Grand Prix at Brand's Hatch, in his final report from Inside a Woman's World.