Kowloon Walled City BBC Documentary 1980 (Subtitles)

Alan Wicker enters the Kowloon Walled City and is taken on a tour by Australian Ted Brown, and also visits the drug rehabilitation center ran by Jackie Pullinger and her team of friends, there is also an interview with Jackie Pullinger and her stories she has to tell. The first part of the video is maybe more interesting as it’s actually based in the walled city; on the tour with Ted Brown(the Aussie) and when interviewing the two girls, the other part is an interview with Jackie Pullinger. They do seem very keen on their work on helping druggies, but even I myself think they aren’t very down to earth, Alan Wicker does well to keep the interviews going. Surely when he’s interviewing the girl called Anne he asks her how she gets her food seeing as they don’t earn any money as the work is voluntary her answer is God provides, I guess all he could do was blink and carry on. I gather he came prepared for his visit and he was good at his job, but the girls didn’t seem very keen. Plus it
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