"Women in prison" Man Alive Series (1972 Documentary)

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  @repo136 · 1 month ago

  I worked out that the lady who decorated her own room and painted the picture (with the unfinished legs!) who said she had 3 years and 2 months to go until she would be released in July 1972 means that this was - at least, partly - filmed during the summer of 1969.<br><br>Also, the lovely, articulate lady who was in for burning down her husband’s art gallery was Jean St. Clair. She was an actress and the cheating and abusive husband was the art dealer, Jack Baer. Jean sadly died not long after this film at the terribly young age of only 53.

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  @46metube · 7 years ago

  when television had meaning.

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  @Mallybone · 11 months ago

  I was in Holloway in 1983... Id never been in trouble in my life not ever, I got six months for being with a friend who wrote a cheque from a cheque book that wasn&apos;t hers, I&apos;m not stupid I knew it wasn&apos;t hers but I didn&apos;t think about the consequences until I had to, I didn&apos;t think of the impact it would have on my son or my family, or the person who&apos;s cheque &nbsp;book it was I wasn&apos;t bad, I made the choice to do it, I just didn&apos;t &nbsp;think, I had a job a home, I was a mum...<br>I didn&apos;t learn anything in prison...only that I&apos;d never return ... I went on to work with young adults male and female, as a life coach and mentor untill 2022 when I retired... I&apos;m not ashamed about my past because I&apos;m not my past...

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  @classlessbozo317 · 2 weeks ago

  This sounds like one of Alan Partridge’s ideas for a television program.

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  @juliemitchell3013 · 2 years ago

  New sub. Thank you so much for this. I’m 71 and today’s tv is just utter rubbish. I love these older documentaries

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  @lumailisa · 6 months ago

  I miss the old programmes. This was a rare find

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  @garyhunt8067 · 2 years ago

  Man Alive really did put some good fly on the wall documentaries.

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  @Teuchter-ahoy · 3 years ago

  Locking up a young lassie with a 3 month old baby just for soliciting…..that’s so sad.

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  @michaelmajor4450 · 2 years ago

  in today&apos;s world most of these ladies would never have been sent to prison just a suspended sentence

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  @iant9461 · 2 years ago

  When people were &nbsp;more intelligent no matter who they were than they are no today. &nbsp;They spoke better and they thought better!

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  @ThomasReed-c1w · 1 year ago

  Just a shout out for the man interviewing the women. What a great job he done.

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  @simonclord7697 · 3 years ago

  What great time capsules these videos are. I was born in 1970. I wish BFI or Network would release all of Man Alive, Arena etc

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