Living with Uncle Sam
A series of ten films in which Alan Whicker talks to a wide range of enterprising Brits who've gone to live and work in the USA.
4: / Wanted to be Disgusting, and Rich....
Ralph Murphy had produced 300 records before making the journey from Saffron Walden in Essex to Nashville in Tennessee. Along with Roger Cook , who's written more hits than anyone except Paul McCartney , and Michael Snow from Liverpool, he's part of the British contingent bridging the gap between pop and country and western. In Palm Beach Whicker meets Guy and Hilary Wyatt who started a landscaping business; Bill Burt who left the Scottish
Daily Mail in 1961 and now edits one of America's outrageous tabloids; and Pam Symes , a widow who tells of the other side of life in the millionaires' enclave. Research DEBORAH ISAACS Film cameraman MIKE FOX
Sound recordist JOHN PARKER Film editor IAN PITCH
Producer JONATHAN STEDALL BBC Bristol
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