Eye to Eye

Tonight the Eye to Eye Documentary team has a look at life in this country as it strikes a newcomer to these shores.

Tonight 'Eye to Eye' focuses on crime in Birmingham. You will meet real characters from the underworld-men who have been operating outside the law. They will tell you how they work and how they are caught, and you will see how the police act in the endless war against crime.

Tonight Eye to Eye tells the story of the medical officers of the Port of London Health Authority who stand on guard as the first line of defence against infectious disease. A ship from Asia is heading for the Channel; one of the passengers is sick; 'query smallpox' is the message sent by the ship's surgeon; in thirty-six hours they will be in London, capital of a country of fifty million people, only a quarter of whom are vaccinated.

The Plight of the Illegitimate is examined with the cooperation of some of those who can speak authoritatively on the effect on the individual of being born out of wedlock. Every incident is based on an actual case history, but where it is necessary to preserve the anonymity of unmarried mothers and their children the faces seen are not those of the real people.

'Eye to Eye' looks at a provincial city from evening until dawn, and meets some of the people caught up in the restlessness and loneliness of the city night. Made by the BBC North Region Film Unit

Tonight 'Eye to Eye' spans the Atlantic, and a musician who has lived in both cities interprets the scenes recorded by our cameras in streets 3,500 miles apart. Photographed in New York by Dick Bagley and in London by Charles Parnell. Piano accompaniment by Tom McCall

Being the lament of a barber on the island of Elba and the experiences of six customers having a shave in his shop. Written and produced by Stephen Hearst.

'Eye to Eye' watches some of Britain's leading rock-climbers as they demonstrate their skill and daring among the mountains of England and Wales. Made by BBC North Region Film Unit. Written and directed by Stanley Williamson. Sequences from the film of the ascent of Kangchenjunga by courtesy of Mr. Charles Evans.

Documentary looking at holidaymakers who take the 'Big Gamble' every summer - those who are willing to risk their savings on a stay at a British seaside resort, which could very well be ruined by bad weather. Filmed at Broadstairs beach.

First transmitted in 1957, documentary telling the stories of men who reside and work at the Salvation Army's factory and residential hostel in Spa Road, Bermondsey.

The life so short, the craft... So Long to Learn Chaucer's comment, written 600 years ago, provides the key to this week's Eye to Eye picture of present-day young people. It tells the story of a boat-load of students, from the rival colleges of Battersea and Chelsea, on a summer outing on the Thames; dancing, talking, and thinking about the past and the future. Made with the help of Battersea College of Technology and Chelsea Polytechnic and School of Art. The people in tonight's film are all young; and though perhaps not typical of all young people they are typical of students. They are a representative handful of the 100,000 who attend full-time courses (and to some extent are representative of the greater number who attend part-time courses) in our technical colleges and universities. They also represent the people who within the next generation will be the leaders in industry, academic life, and artistic thought. For this edition of Eye to Eye we have chosen the rival colleges of Battersea and Chelsea, which by the end of the year will be among the first of the eight new colleges of advanced technology that are being set up by the Ministry of Education. The film itself tells the story of a riverboat jazz party organised by the two colleges, and between dancing and enjoying' themselves generally the students get involved in arguments. These, for example, deal with the advantages of going into industry as opposed to teaching; the narrowness of technical training-in which we see a lot of leg-pulling of the scientists by the artists-and finally, as the boat nears home, a discussion on religion. The programme also includes two big student raids. The atmosphere of the whole programme is gay, and the title itself is part of a fuller Chaucer quotation -'The Life so Short, the Craft So Long to Learn'. (Rex Moorfoot)

Written by Stephen Hearst and Richard Cawston. Tonight, Eye to Eye compares the two ways of life of the familiar Breton onion-sellers. Commentary spoken by Jacques Brunius.