A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives.
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

A Man Alive team, invited by the Home Office, talked in Holloway prison for women, to the prisoners themselves about lives which are spent day by day, year after year, in the confines of a prison built 120 years ago.

'In its way a work of art' - Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian.
'Man Alive's look at the prison was remarkable' Virginia Ironside, Daily Mail.
'A vivid, impressionistic view of prison society' Sylvia Clayton, Daily Telegraph.
'Splendidly directed by Jenny Barraclough and handled with consummate tact and sympathy by interviewer Harold Williamson' James Thomas, Daily Express.