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

Secondary education in England, often thought of as the best secondary education system in the world, has become yet another battleground for party politics. Those on the left favour the introduction of comprehensive schools, those on the right the retention of the grammar schools.
Man Alive, in the third and final programme on secondary education, discusses with the protagonists on both sides the merits and demerits of the two systems. And the possibility of any other kind in the future.