One Pair Of Eyes

The first of a new monthly series of highly personal films. James Cameron so often returns to India. 'Of all the places I have lived and worked in, the one that made the strongest drag at the emotions was India. It was inevitable that I had to go back: to find out what had happened to India - and what had happened to me'.

"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.

Peter Wilson, who has seen more big-time sport than almost anyone in Britain, feels that something has gone wrong with our success rate.

Norman Parkinson, the distinguished fashion photographer, focuses his expert eyes on women. With Vanessa Redgrave, Twiggy, Raquel Welch, Marisa Mell, Celia Hammond, Kay Thompson. "As a species women are much more important than men." "The best photographers are the biggest liars." "I take a woman and gild her a little until she shines."