Living with Waltzing Matilda

Season 15 · 1988 · 10 episodes

Episodes

1Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 1To celebrate Australia's bicentennial, Alan Whicker visit Brits who have emigrated there. He meets Dorrie Flatman from Liverpool who moved there in 1963 with three children and £45 and now owns a chain of brothels that has made her rich.
2Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 2Alan Whicker talks to Brits living in Australia, including Jane Makim (sister of Sarah, Duchess of York), Captain John Alliston and his wife Eleanor who writes under the alias of Minka Jones.
3Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 3Alan Whicker meets Brits who have emigrated to Australia. He visits Western Australia's vast outback, and also meets a former bus driver from Bolton who now mans one of the world's loneliest lighthouses.
4Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 4Alan Whicker visits Australia to meet Brits who have emigrated there. He journeys to Northern Queensland and meets a man who likes crocodiles, a garden gnome evangelist, and some gold-diggers in a ghost town.
5Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 5Alan Whicker visits Brits living in Australia. In Sydney, he attends Lady Primrose Potter's fancy dress ball, meeting society columnist Diana "Bubbles" Fisher. He also visits a gay bar where he meets Jeff Hardy who used to work at Fortnums.
6Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 6In Australia's Northern Territory, Alan Whicker meets Sid & Barbara Smith who run a public house which serves Devonshire cream teas, and visits an Aborigine alcohol rehabilitation centre run by two British doctors, Dr Clare and Dr Neil.
7Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 7Alan Whicker looks at industrial relations in Australia. He meets a top trade union official, and British millionaire Roger Smith, who is returning to England after 24 years because of restrictive Australian union practices.
8Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 8Alan Whicker looks at the stereotypical Australian male image with comments from Sally Hurley, Clare Jukka, Sue Becker (the BBC's fitness instructor from the 1970s), Jane Deknatel and Hazel Small.
9Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 9Alan Whicker visits Brits living in Australia, including Ray Wilmott who has his own fox hunt in New South Wales, wine critic Len Evans, and Dennis Gowing whose horse won the Melbourne Cup.
10Living with Waltzing Matilda: Part 10Alan Whicker talks to people from the arts and entertainment, including Wilton Morley (son of Robert Morley), film producer Phillip Emmanuel, Edmund Capon curator of the NSW Art Gallery, writer Tony Shaffer, and boxer Joe Bugner.