Man Alive

Desmond Wilcox began his journalism career in 1949, and after a spell with the Daily Mirror and five years with Rediffusion's This Week, he joined the BBC in 1965 to become co-editor and presenter of this remarkable documentary series, made by a team which he later formed into the Man Alive documentary unit. Wilcox had a knack for exposing raw emotion in his contributors, though as a result his films were occasionally referred to around the corporation as "Desmond's Weepies".