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A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives.
Reporters: Angela Huth, Jeremy James, John Percival, Trevor Philpott, Desmond Wilcox

This week: A Case of Suicide
Suicide is a way of death that anyone can choose. The wealthy and apparently well-adjusted are as vulnerable as the poor and the deprived. But for those of us close to someone who chooses to die in this way there is another issue besides the sense of loss inseparable from sudden death. It is the issue of responsibility: 'If only', we say, 'we could have done something...' How much can we do to prevent someone who wants to commit suicide? How far should we blame ourselves when they succeed? With the people who have faced this, lived with the suicide of someone else, Man Alive tries to find out.
Report by John Percival.

Contributors

Reporter:
John Percival
Editor:
Desmond Wilcox
Editor:
Bill Morton

by Thomas Clarke.
[Starring] Dilys Laye as Connie Blackwell, Glynn Edwards as George Blackwell,
Kenneth Colley as Paddy
with Michael Brennan as Fred Olley, Sydney Bromley as The old man

It is a hot and airless Saturday afternoon in a back street pub near Paddington; a time and a place for dreams about a different life. This at least is how it affects Connie, the publican's wife, and Paddy, the Irish barman, becomes for a few hours the object of her dreams.

Contributors

Writer:
Thomas Clarke
Designer:
Gwen Evans
Producer:
Graeme McDonald
Director:
Piers Haggard
Connie Blackwell:
Dilys Laye
George Blackwell:
Glynn Edwards
Paddy:
Kenneth Colley
Fred Olley:
Michael Brennan
The old man:
Sydney Bromley

1942: Hitchcock directs a thriller about wartime treachery Saboteur
Starring Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane

A young factory worker, unjustly implicated in a sabotage plot, tries to establish his innocence while pursued by the police and accompanied by an attractive blonde...

Contributors

Screenplay:
Peter Viertel
Screenplay:
Joan Harrison
Screenplay:
Dorothy Parker
Associate Producer:
Jack H. Skirball
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Barry Kane:
Robert Cummings
Patricia Martin:
Priscilla Lane
Tobin:
Otto Kruger
Freeman:
Alan Baxter
Nielson:
Clem Bevans
Fry:
Norman Lloyd
Mrs. Sutton:
Alma Kruger
Mr. Martin:
Vaughan Glazer
Mrs. Mason:
Dorothy Peterson
Robert:
Ian Wolfe

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