LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran British broadcaster and journalist Alan Whicker, whose career spanned five decades and whose clipped delivery style was parodied by Monty Python, died on Friday at the age ...

Just as no one expects the Spanish Inquisition, Monty Python fans couldn’t have expected to ever see the five surviving members of the iconic British comedy troupe huddled together plotting their ...

Last week’s column was done and dusted when I learned from The Times’s diary that — as I correctly speculated in it — the broadcaster Alan Whicker had indeed been much amused by Monty Python’s Whicker ...

The TV broadcaster brought audiences around the world, but rarely gave access to his heart, writes Jonathan Margolis Alan Whicker, who died on Friday, was the quintessence of the glory days of British ...

His spokeswoman said he died in the early hours of Friday morning at his home in Jersey. With a TV career that stretched nearly six decades, he was best known for his long-running documentary series, ...

All obituaries of Alan Whicker mentioned Monty Python’s spoof, Whicker Island (above) — though there was less uniformity over the age of the deceased, most newspapers saying he was 87 rather than the ...

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...

Alan Whicker, who has died at his home in Jersey aged 87, was one of the most popular faces on British television for almost six decades, probably best-known for the globetrotting documentary series ...

Veteran British broadcaster and journalist Alan Whicker, whose career spanned five decades and whose clipped delivery style was parodied by Monty Python, died on Friday at the age of 87. Whicker was ...