Man Alive

A year of Man Alive One man's personal view of 1966 A year in which so many of us failed to communicate... A year of tragedy, suffering, and human weakness - and from time to time a year of characters who made us smile ... Using the material shot by the film teams and reporters of Man Alive during the past 52 weeks, James Cameron takes a personal look at the old year.

Every New Year's Day we tell ourselves, as we face another 365 days, that we'll change this; reorder that; be different or better. But the resolve is one thing and the fact is a very different matter. In the last twelve months of Man Alive programmes we've heard a great deal of resolve, seen a great many promises and good intentions demonstrated. There have also been a number of fascinating characters whose future was a question-mark which would certainly bear looking at again. What happened to the people? How did things work out for them? Have promises been kept or have all those middle-of-the-year resolutions gone the way that most New Year's resolutions do?

Man Alive was the 60s documentary series which brought homosexuality, death, adultery and VD into people's front rooms for the first time. In this specially made programme, the Man Alive team talk about their methods, motives and dilemmas in persuading the public to reveal raw emotion on television. Among those interviewed are Desmond Wilcox and David Attenborough.