Man Alive

How many years before a man can have a failing heart replaced? How long before almost any diseased or weakened organ can be taken out and replaced with a spare part? Is this just a dream? Not in the mind of Michael De Bakey.

On August 31, 1939, Alfred Naujocks received a telephone call from Nazi Secret Service headquarters. The message 'Grandmother Dead' triggered off an incident on the Polish border which was to change the face of Europe After twenty-six years of silence, Naujocks gives his version of the part he played in this event which started World War II.

Years ago they were champions-headline news and sporting heroes. But now? This programme traces some of the great boxing champions of the past. Some are happily employed-some live in the shadow of ill-health and ring punishment-and some have contributed to their own tragedies.

For many bachelor girls working in a big city like London, there is probably only one answer to the high rents-to share a flat with other girls. Every day hundreds of girls scan the advertisements for a flat to share.

A gunman in the hills an unarmed woman ... a home destroyed.... a coroner who takes the job to get her hands on the bodies ... this is Kentucky in the autumn of 1965 Two hundred years ago Daniel Boone fought the Cherokees and the Shawnees and he won, making the land safe to be settled by men. women, and orphans from Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow, and London. Today their descendants fight off bulldozers, armed guards, and politicians.

Tonight the Prime Minister will present a sporting award to a partly paralysed man-a paraplegic. This is a story of achievement, partly of Dr. Guttmann and partly of his patients paraplegia is sudden and final - an accident can tie a man or woman to a bath-chair for the rest of their life. And that would be that. but for the work of a doctor working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Christmas 1965 ... in the Welfare State. At a time of giving and plenty, a look at poverty and deprivation through the eyes of five families who cannot afford Christmas.

Every hour of the day and night seven illegitimate babies are born -more than sixty thousand in a year. They may not face the stigma that once was attached to their birth, but what are the problems of their parents? How does a single girl bring up the child she never intended to have? To what extent does the child's father contribute to its upbringing?