Whicker's World

Tonight Whicker goes on location with Spain's most outrageous film director, meets a priest with a chain of restaurants, and a British diplomat who married by post.

Travelling south to Andalusia, Whicker meets the sherry barons of Jerez and finds them celebrating the annual feria, a show of horses and traditional dress.

This week's programme opens in Marbella at a poolside party for the jet set where, Alan Whicker discovers, "you feel quite under-dressed without a Rolls-Royce." He meets the man once reported to be the richest in the world, a feature film writer, a prince, and Fleet Street's permanent eye on the "Costa del Crime".

Journeying inland, Alan Whicker meets some Britons who have decided to settle permanently for a Spanish way of life. They include the Scott family, who restored an old olive mill, an English teacher in Seville whose Spanish husband expected her to lay out his socks, and the great nephew of GK Chesterton, who opens his home to paying guests.

This week, Alan Whicker talks to a Grandee, once married to the ex-wife of singer Julio Iglesias, and meets the Duke of Arion, who now produces gin and tomatoes.

Alan Whicker meets some remarkable Spanish women - among them a TV sex therapist, a lawyer who helped an embattled Madrid community declare independence, and fashion doyenne Cuca Solana.

Alan Whicker visits Andalucia, in the south west corner of Spain. He meets a king's ambassador, a red duchess, an oil magnate and visits Expo 92 in Seville.

In three weeks' time the Olympic Games begin in bustling Barcelona. In the last programme of the series, Alan Whicker visits the city and talks to those behind its colour and success. He meets Javier Mariscal, designer of the Olympic mascot, and Frederico Correa, creator of the Olympic stadium, and he gets away from it all with jet-setting architect Peter Hodgkinson, who designed Barcelona's controversial new airport.