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Man Alive: Another Way of Life

on BBC Two England

Achievement... Happiness... Tragedy... Stress...
A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters: Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: Another Way of Life
Men with long hair, caftans, and sandals; girls without make-up, fierce with ideals, vocal with conviction. Beards and passion-sitar music and beads. Some of the symbols of revolution in 1969. People who want to opt out of the society most of us unquestioningly conform to. Men and women who reject the suburban life, the nine-to-five values, and the acceptance of governmental rules and social laws that the majority of us hardly ever challenge. But opt out to what? If they reject society as it is today, what would they have in its place?
There are communities all over Britain, little bands of fervent believers who have rejected and are attempting to replace.
The idea of escaping from the general rat-race is not new. Groups of people have been trying it for years. But in 1969 the way people go about it is sometimes different. With those who are trying today and those who saw it all happen yesterday Man Alive looks at the whys and wherefores of another way of life.
(Colour)

Contributors

Producer:
Ivor Dunkerton
Editor:
Desmond Wilcox
Editor:
Bill Morton

BBC Two England

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