Whicker's World (TV Series)

A Fast Boat to China: 3. Port Moresby - Pattaya (1984)

Alan Whicker: Self - Presenter

Quotes 

• Self - Presenter : [Introduction]  50 seafarers take to the skies, the more adventurous cruisers are flying into the unknown and high above Port Moresby, get their last longing look at home, the 'QE2'. Such a wrench leaving that familiar security. The Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea were unknown to Europeans until the 30s, when the first white men arrived searching for gold. Today we're searching for mud men, five thousand feet up in the mountains at Goroka where our local sing-sing groups of the airport to meet us.

  [pause] 

  Self - Presenter : Strange to recall a first wheel that Papuans ever saw, was on an aircraft !.

• Self - Presenter : [End Narration]  Wherever she goes, the 'QE2' has considerable impact upon those ashore, and is not easily forgotten. She's not just a ship, she's an event.