One Pair of Eyes

An evocation of great British journalist James Cameron's love affair with Nehru's India thirty years after it's birth. The film inaugurates important BBC series, ONE PAIR OF EYES, and has been repeated many times since, including the night 30 years of BBC2 was celebrated.

"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, inhabited by men and women whose emotional needs have not really changed since the Stone Age.

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 river - the Potomac. But behind the cherry blossom, the white marble, and the big parades, one Englishman observes some contradictions.

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 from: The Rt. Hon. Barbara Castle, M.P. Minister of Transport; William Rees-Mogg, Editor of The Times; General Sir John Hackett, C.-in-C. British Army of the Rhine; Arthur South, leader of Norwich City Council and Lord Brooke of Cumnor, who as Home Secretary had to decide between life and death.

"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 Cameron, who describes himself as a permanent minority, journeys from St. Peter's, Rome, down the crowded road of the great faiths to Israel, Egypt, and India, and casts a sceptical glance at mankind's interpretation of God's demands.

"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. They are in grave danger of being alienated from everything." Jo Grimond returns from a journey across Yugoslavia and decides that we, too, should wipe the slate clean and start again.