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: What's It All About?
The first of three programmes about trouble in our universities
Violence and shouting: waving placards and charging police-horses; headlines and loud hailers: the academic life sometimes seems more like a running riot. Puzzled parents, resentful taxpayers, worried university staff, and sixth-formers uncertainly facing an undergraduate future which may contain as many sit-downs as seminars.
We hear the roar of student unrest, but does the noise make sense? Are there any words to listen to? What should a university education mean in 1969? With just a handful of parents, sixth-formers, students, and vice-chancellors (the men in the hot seats at universities) Man Alive tries to find out.
(Colour)

Contributors

Producer:: Tom Conway
Editor:: Desmond Wilcox
Editor:: Bill Morton

Source: Radio Times

20:45

Television Doctor: Skin

BBC Two

Wed 9^th Apr 1969, 20:45 on BBC Two England

Lovers are fascinated by skin, poets inspired by it, but medically it's a waterproof and airtight elastic covering which envelops all the other tissues.
In tonight's programme the Consultant Physician, a Dermatologist, and a General Practitioner discuss two skin complaints: contact dermatitis and acne.
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:: The Consultant Physician [name uncredited]
Panellist:: A Dermatologist [name uncredited]
Panellist:: A General Practitioner [name uncredited]
Director:: Mick Jackson
Producer:: Ian Curtis

Source: Radio Times

21:00

Breaking Up Britain?

BBC Two

Wed 9^th Apr 1969, 21:00 on BBC Two England

A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party
(Also on BBC-1 and BBC Wales)

Source: Radio Times

21:15

The Hollywood Musical: For Me and My Gal

BBC Two

Wed 9^th Apr 1969, 21:15 on BBC Two England

A selection of musical milestones from the golden days of the silver screen

Tonight: the 1942 production For Me and My Gal
Starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, George Murphy
with Marta Eggerth, Ben Blue, Horace McNally

This week's Hollywood Musical is a song-packed story of love and heartbreaks for a couple of vaudeville entertainers before World War I.
"For Me and My Gal" was Gene Kelly's first screen role, and the part of the brash Harry Palmer is eminently suitable for his talents. The film also provided Judy Garland with her first grown-up part after her adolescent partnership with Mickey Rooney.
Also in the cast is Richard Quine, now a talented director whose credits include "How to Murder Your Wife"; "The World of Suzie Wong"; "Bell, Book, and Candle."