One Pair of Eyes

1. S01E01James Cameron: Temporary Person Passing ThroughMay 6, 1967—An evocation of great British journalist James Cameron's love affair with Nehru's India thirty years after it's birth. The film inaugurates
2. S01E02Dr Alex Comfort: A Traveller in the DreamtimeJune 3, 1967—"We've learned how to think. Now we've got to re-learn how to feel - if we are going to survive." A highly personal view of modern Britain,
3. S01E03Anthony Howard: A City of Magnificent IntentionsJuly 1, 1967—Once the river Tiber washed the walls of the self-styled capital of the western world. Later it was the Thames. Today it is an American rive
4. S01E04Nicholas Tomalin: No Worse HeresyJuly 29, 1967—Personal power - how do those who have it feel about using it? Did they seek it? Has it changed them? Was it worth it? With contributions fr
5. S01E05James Cameron: The Road to Kingdom ComeSeptember 23, 1967—"Man is the only animal who knows he is going to die. It therefore became imperative to live without despair. Thus was created God." James C
6. S01E06Jo Grimond: The Dead Hand of DemocracyOctober 21, 1967—"The British are one of the least enthusiastic people in the world. They don't believe in their party system; they don't like socialism. The
7. S01E07Peter Wilson: You've Got to WinNovember 18, 1967—Peter Wilson, who has seen more big-time sport than almost anyone in Britain, feels that something has gone wrong with our success rate.
8. S01E08Norman Parkinson: Stay Baby StayDecember 16, 1967—Norman Parkinson, the distinguished fashion photographer, focuses his expert eyes on women. With Vanessa Redgrave, Twiggy, Raquel Welch, Mar
9. S01E09Sir Tyrone Guthrie: Off to PhiladelphiaJanuary 13, 1968—When, if ever, will the tide of emigration turn, which now ebbs so fast from rural Ireland?
10. S01E10James Cameron: Berlin - The Haunted HouseFebruary 10, 1968—"Why do I dislike Berlin? Why does the place arouse in me all the prejudiced emotions I so resent in other people? And yet why do we all res
11. S01E11Margaret Drabble: A Place Called ExileMarch 9, 1968—Margaret Drabble narrates this documentary about her own life. The cameras follow her as she revisits the places where she grew up and was e
12. S01E12Claud Cockburn: One More River To CrossApril 13, 1968—People always say 'Shut-up, be quiet, pie in the sky, you'll get there in the end' - but you know, and I know, and everybody knows that it d
13. S01E13Robert Morley: Was Your Schoolmaster Really Necessary?May 4, 1968—"I have always had a certain loathing of schoolmasters, feeling them to be a corrupt body of creatures on the whole... I'm not an educated m
14. S01E14Gerald Nabarro: Four Cheers for BritainJune 8, 1968—The Member of Parliament for South Worcestershire, who has been described by others as 'the most famous back-bencher on either side of the H
15. S01E15John Mortimer: It's A Two Faced WorldJuly 6, 1968—"In matters of great importance it's style not sincerity that counts. In law, in politics, in the church... not just in the theatre... actor
16. S01E16Georgia Brown: Who Are the Cockneys Now?August 17, 1968—First transmitted in 1968, singer and actress Georgia Brown revisits her old childhood home in Whitechapel, East London and notes the fading
17. S01E17Gerald Scarfe: I Think I See Violence All Around MeAugust 22, 1968—The sheer ferocity of a Scarfe cartoon, stripping his subjects of any human dignity and reducing them to a kind of sub-animal level, provoke
18. S01E18Kenneth Tynan: A Taste of PrivilegeAugust 31, 1968—"My generation was liberated by Oxford: but it also confined us and marked us for life. Nothing has ever topped the exhilaration and privile
19. S01E19Rene Cutforth: Vikings AnonymousSeptember 28, 1968—Through the long days of a Swedish summer "to be flesh in contact with sun is to know fulfilment." The landscape is breathtaking, and the bl
20. S01E20Michael Frayn: As When in a Dream We Discover We Can FlyOctober 26, 1968—Do we just like travel for its own sake? Are we increasingly obsessed with the desire for encapsulated movement? As members of the moving wo
21. S01E21Charlotte Bingham: If I Had a Million...November 23, 1968—You can have wealth without sophistication, but can you have sophistication without wealth? Charlotte Bingham, daughter of Lord Clanmorris,
22. S01E22Dom Moraes: One Black EnglishmanDecember 21, 1968—Dom Moraes, poet and journalist, examines his situation as a coloured Englishman who suddenly feels he is an immigrant. "On April 20, 1968,
23. S01E23Joe Tilson: I See with My Ears and Hear Through My FingertipsJanuary 18, 1969—Joe Tilson is one of Britain's foremost contemporary artists and is obsessed with the problems of flesh and blood human beings living in a m
24. S01E24Marjorie Proops: Romance Is Dead - Long Live RomanceFebruary 15, 1969—Romance stopped being romantic when they all started calling it sex. Women are no longer treated as the gentle sex; chivalry is old hat; it'
25. S01E25John Coast: Return to the River KwaiMarch 15, 1969—
26. S01E26Lord Campbell of Eskan: Through the Eye of a NeedleApril 12, 1969—The decisions of businessmen affect every one of us. At last a successful tycoon reveals the principles that have guided his business career
27. S01E27Patrick Moore: Can You Speak Venusian?May 10, 1969—Patrick Moore takes a look at independent thinkers including flat earthers, hollow earthers, belief in a cold sun and many more interesting
28. S01E28John Dankworth: Some Talk of AlexanderMay 31, 1969—Hero worship is an essential part of our lives - without heroes we have no great deeds to emulate, we can achieve nothing. How big a part do
29. S01E29Marty Feldman: No, But Seriously...June 7, 1969—What makes you laugh? It is always easier to describe humour than to analyse it. Marty Feldman, for many years a successful comedy writer be
30. S01E30Sir Con O'Neill: Britain Through Foreign EyesJuly 5, 1969—Sir Con O'Neill is one of Britain's top diplomats - British Charge d'Affaires in Peking, British Ambassador to Finland, and, more recently,
31. S01E31Gwyn Thomas: It's a Sad But Beautiful JokeSeptember 6, 1969—"The nature of a man's life, the nature of a man's mind, depends very largely on the kind of shocks and jokes to which he is subject. In Wal
32. S01E32David Holden: The Unreal ImageSeptember 27, 1969—Television, radio, computers, and jet aeroplanes may seem to bring the world to our hearthrug but they also increase the danger of mistaking
33. S01E33Professor Francis Camps: Is the Law an Ass?January 3, 1970—Prostitution - pornography - drugs - driving - are all fields in which the law has failed to achieve satisfactory results. Professor Camps,
34. S01E34Tom Wolfe: Happiness Is Wheel-ShapedJanuary 24, 1970—Cars have always been dream symbols for the working American. But today it is not the mass-produced model from Detroit which dominates the l
35. S01E35Shirley Conran: Danger - Women at Work!February 7, 1970—Can a woman look after her husband, her children, and her job without one of the three suffering? Shirley Conran, designer and journalist, t
36. S01E36Yvonne Mitchell: Strictly for the FrenchMarch 7, 1970—For the past eight years Yvonne Mitchell, the actress and novelist, has lived on the French Riviera. She has watched her 13-year-old daughte
37. S01E37Brian Glanville: The Last of the Good LosersApril 4, 1970—The novelist and sports writer Brian Glanville fears that the real value of sport is being undermined by the demands and tensions of our com
38. S01E38Dr Benjamin Spock: We're Sliding Towards DestructionApril 18, 1970—Until a few years ago Dr Spock, the legendary baby doctor, was known only for his book on bringing up children, a work which enjoyed world s
39. S01E39John Creasey: Down with All Parties!May 2, 1970—At 61, John Creasey, creator of such world-famous figures as 'The Toff' and 'Gideon of the Yard,' is the world's most prolific writer. He ha
40. S01E40Raymond Williams: Border CountryAugust 1, 1970—Raymond Williams, novelist and lecturer, thinks university education should be fitted to the demands of real life. He believes that many of
41. S01E41John Cherrington: The Green RevolutionAugust 29, 1970—The prophets of doom who predict our imminent starvation are wrong. Man can easily feed himself. Miracle wheats, mammoth rice harvests, over
42. S01E42Clive Jenkins: The Class That Came in from the ColdSeptember 19, 1970—Once upon a time there was a middle class who believed that they were part of the ruling system. Mergers, take-overs, computerisation, the g
43. S01E43Dom Moraes: Return as a StrangerOctober 17, 1970—At the age of 16 he left India to make his home in England. At 20 he won the Hawthornden Prize for poetry while still at Oxford. After spend
44. S01E44John Skeaping: I Draw As Though I Were A Horse Writing His AutobiographyNovember 14, 1970—"Today we are not as dependent on animals as we once were. Our approach to animals is largely based on sentiment - we like to credit them wi
45. S01E45Idries Shah: The DreamwalkersDecember 19, 1970—Idries Shah, writer and traveller, descendant of the prophet Mahomet, sees our Western way of life through eyes trained in the Oriental Sufi
46. S01E46George Mikes: Alien's ReturnJanuary 9, 1971—A generation of Communist rule changes many things - but not the real character of the people. George Mikes, writer, humorist, and traveller
47. S01E47Mai Zetterling: You Must Make People AngryMarch 6, 1971—Mai Zetterling gives her own provocative views on the world as she sees it - views on marriage, on the pressures of contemporary society, on
48. S01E48John Crosby: Doomsday Never ComesMarch 27, 1971—"Pessimism about the future is very fashionable - and very profitable. But if I could have any period of history to live in, I would choose
49. S01E49John Dancy: We Must Offer a VisionMay 8, 1971—Headmaster of Lancing when he was only 33, now headmaster of Marlborough, John Dancy "believes a public school can only be successful if it
50. S01E50Des Wilson: Charities Are Not EnoughJune 12, 1971—Up to the beginning of this year, 30-year-old Des Wilson was the director of Shelter, the charity which has done so much to draw attention t
51. S01E51Anthony Grey: One Man's FreedomJune 26, 1971—Anthony Grey was the Reuters correspondent in Peking at the height of China's Cultural Revolution. He was arrested by the Chinese Government
52. S01E52Laurens van der Post: A Region of ShadowJuly 10, 1971—Himself of Afrikaans origin, and as a young man one of the first to oppose racialism in South Africa, writer and explorer Laurens van der Po
53. S01E53Lord Montagu of Beaulieu: You're Never Alone with a Stately Home...August 28, 1971—This weekend, between 8,000 and 10,000 people each day will visit Lord Montagu's-home at Beaulieu in Hampshire. Is this taking commercialisa
54. S01E54John Braine: The Magic Is Here and NowNovember 13, 1971—In this personally authored documentary, John Braine, who is probably best remembered for his first novel, Room at the Top, discusses his wo
55. S01E55Leonardo Ricci: Starting from ZeroDecember 11, 1971—Starting from zero, says Leonardo Ricci, 'is the point every man should arrive at. A man is a man when he finds himself alone and has to sur
56. S01E56Sir Michael Tippett: Poets in a Barren AgeFebruary 19, 1972—What useful purpose is served by the creative artist in society? In a harsh world where millions starve, do poems or paintings or symphonies
57. S01E57Reyner Banham: Reyner Banham Loves Los AngelesMarch 11, 1972—It's not unusual for people to come back from Los Angeles with horror stories about violence, pollution and the sheer unmanageable size of t
58. S01E58Lord Caradon: Race Against TimeJune 3, 1972—Now that Britain has lost her empire is there a role for us in the world? Lord Caradon, formerly Sir Hugh Foot, who became internationally f
59. S01E59Tom Stoppard: Tom Stoppard Doesn't KnowJuly 7, 1972—'Almost everybody I know has firm opinions about almost everything. It's better to have halitosis than to have no opinion. The characteristi
60. S01E60Arthur Dooley: We're Coming into our OwnAugust 18, 1972—'The core of Christianity is the Resurrection,' says Dooley, 'because the Resurrection is about hope and life.' Arthur Dooley, the internati
61. S01E61Mark Boxer: Half Way MarkSeptember 1, 1972—Mark Boxer is the resident cartoonist ('Marc') of The Times, and Associate Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine which he launched in 1962. At
62. S01E62David Franklin: ...I Sometimes Think I Don't Really BelongSeptember 22, 1972—'The only thing worth having,' David Franklin asserts, 'is something you've worked to get and can take pride in.' Words and music have been
63. S01E63Spike Milligan: If You've Got a Pair of Eyes, Use ThemFebruary 9, 1973—Spike Milligan is a very funny serious man and a very serious funny man. For him life's problem is to tiptoe through the chaos he sees aroun
64. S01E64Allan Prior: The Real Thing is Always WorseApril 30, 1973—Allan Prior is a writer of fiction - novels, films, TV plays - but he is probably best known for his scripts for Z Cars and Softly, Softly.
65. S01E65Lord Soper: Love God - And Do As You PleaseJune 4, 1973—In our so-called 'Permissive Society', discipline is an unfashionable concept. The emphasis on personal freedom and the pressure for aboliti
66. S01E66Lady Antonia Fraser: A Life in My HandsJuly 16, 1973—Lady Antonia Fraser is the best-selling biographer of Cromwell and Mary Queen of Scots. To her, biography is a special and important art, wi
67. S01E67Alan Garner: All Systems Go!September 17, 1973—Alan Garner, the brilliantly successful author of books that dazzle and haunt children - and haunt adults, too - is a man obsessed by violen
68. S01E68Paul Johnson: The Road to RuritaniaOctober 25, 1973—During the lifetime of most of us Britain has moved into the ranks of the second-class powers. The decline in our power and influence contin
69. S01E69Lady Betjeman Penelope Chetwode: A Passion for IndiaJanuary 30, 1974—In the course of an exotic and adventurous journey the wife of the Poet Laureate, astride an Indian hill pony, carries out her own crusade a
70. S01E70Diane Cilento: Who Am I?February 21, 1974—Australian actress Diane Cilento seeks spiritual answers on a communal farm run by followers of GI Gurdjieff, including the philosopher JG B
71. S01E71Russell Braddon: Epitaph to a FriendshipMay 2, 1974—The friendship between Australia and Britain is dead, declares Australian author Russell Braddon , who has lived here since 1949. In this pr
72. S01E72Robert Carrier: Food Is a Four-Letter Word - L-O-V-EJuly 18, 1974—Restaurateur and writer, American-born Robert Carrier, illustrates through his own lifelong enjoyment of good eating that food is love.
73. S01E73Eric Newby: I Didn't Know Life Would Be Like This!October 16, 1974—Adventure, travel, the challenge of the unpredictable: these are the ingredients of Eric Newby's life. As a boy he sailed round the world, a
74. S01E74Sir Bernard Lovell: As a Man Is, So He SeesNovember 13, 1974—A country childhood. A strict religious upbringing. A very English addiction to cricket. A profound love of music, particularly organ music.

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