One Pair of Eyes

James Cameron: Temporary Person Passing Through

An evocation of great British journalist James Cameron's love affair with Nehru's India thirty years after it's birth. T

Dr Alex Comfort: A Traveller in the Dreamtime

"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

Anthony Howard: A City of Magnificent Intentions

Once the river Tiber washed the walls of the self-styled capital of the western world. Later it was the Thames. Today it

Nicholas Tomalin: No Worse Heresy

Personal power - how do those who have it feel about using it? Did they seek it? Has it changed them? Was it worth it? W

James Cameron: The Road to Kingdom Come

"Man is the only animal who knows he is going to die. It therefore became imperative to live without despair. Thus was c

Jo Grimond: The Dead Hand of Democracy

"The British are one of the least enthusiastic people in the world. They don't believe in their party system; they don't

Peter Wilson: You've Got to Win

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

Norman Parkinson: Stay Baby Stay

Norman Parkinson, the distinguished fashion photographer, focuses his expert eyes on women. With Vanessa Redgrave, Twigg

Sir Tyrone Guthrie: Off to Philadelphia

When, if ever, will the tide of emigration turn, which now ebbs so fast from rural Ireland?

James Cameron: Berlin - The Haunted House

"Why do I dislike Berlin? Why does the place arouse in me all the prejudiced emotions I so resent in other people? And y

Margaret Drabble: A Place Called Exile

Margaret Drabble narrates this documentary about her own life. The cameras follow her as she revisits the places where s

Claud Cockburn: One More River To Cross

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 every

Robert Morley: Was Your Schoolmaster Really Necessary?

"I have always had a certain loathing of schoolmasters, feeling them to be a corrupt body of creatures on the whole... I

Gerald Nabarro: Four Cheers for Britain

The Member of Parliament for South Worcestershire, who has been described by others as 'the most famous back-bencher on

John Mortimer: It's A Two Faced World

"In matters of great importance it's style not sincerity that counts. In law, in politics, in the church... not just in

Georgia Brown: Who Are the Cockneys Now?

First transmitted in 1968, singer and actress Georgia Brown revisits her old childhood home in Whitechapel, East London

Gerald Scarfe: I Think I See Violence All Around Me

The sheer ferocity of a Scarfe cartoon, stripping his subjects of any human dignity and reducing them to a kind of sub-a

Kenneth Tynan: A Taste of Privilege

"My generation was liberated by Oxford: but it also confined us and marked us for life. Nothing has ever topped the exhi

Rene Cutforth: Vikings Anonymous

Through the long days of a Swedish summer "to be flesh in contact with sun is to know fulfilment." The landscape is brea

Michael Frayn: As When in a Dream We Discover We Can Fly

Do we just like travel for its own sake? Are we increasingly obsessed with the desire for encapsulated movement? As memb

Charlotte Bingham: If I Had a Million...

You can have wealth without sophistication, but can you have sophistication without wealth? Charlotte Bingham, daughter

Dom Moraes: One Black Englishman

Dom Moraes, poet and journalist, examines his situation as a coloured Englishman who suddenly feels he is an immigrant.

Joe Tilson: I See with My Ears and Hear Through My Fingertips

Joe Tilson is one of Britain's foremost contemporary artists and is obsessed with the problems of flesh and blood human

Marjorie Proops: Romance Is Dead - Long Live Romance

Romance stopped being romantic when they all started calling it sex. Women are no longer treated as the gentle sex; chiv

John Coast: Return to the River Kwai

Lord Campbell of Eskan: Through the Eye of a Needle

The decisions of businessmen affect every one of us. At last a successful tycoon reveals the principles that have guided

Patrick Moore: Can You Speak Venusian?

Patrick Moore takes a look at independent thinkers including flat earthers, hollow earthers, belief in a cold sun and ma

John Dankworth: Some Talk of Alexander

Hero worship is an essential part of our lives - without heroes we have no great deeds to emulate, we can achieve nothin

Marty Feldman: No, But Seriously...

What makes you laugh? It is always easier to describe humour than to analyse it. Marty Feldman, for many years a success

Sir Con O'Neill: Britain Through Foreign Eyes

Sir Con O'Neill is one of Britain's top diplomats - British Charge d'Affaires in Peking, British Ambassador to Finland,

Gwyn Thomas: It's a Sad But Beautiful Joke

"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 h

David Holden: The Unreal Image

Television, radio, computers, and jet aeroplanes may seem to bring the world to our hearthrug but they also increase the

Professor Francis Camps: Is the Law an Ass?

Prostitution - pornography - drugs - driving - are all fields in which the law has failed to achieve satisfactory result

Tom Wolfe: Happiness Is Wheel-Shaped

Cars have always been dream symbols for the working American. But today it is not the mass-produced model from Detroit w

Shirley Conran: Danger - Women at Work!

Can a woman look after her husband, her children, and her job without one of the three suffering? Shirley Conran, design

Yvonne Mitchell: Strictly for the French

For the past eight years Yvonne Mitchell, the actress and novelist, has lived on the French Riviera. She has watched her

Brian Glanville: The Last of the Good Losers

The novelist and sports writer Brian Glanville fears that the real value of sport is being undermined by the demands and

Dr Benjamin Spock: We're Sliding Towards Destruction

Until a few years ago Dr Spock, the legendary baby doctor, was known only for his book on bringing up children, a work w

John Creasey: Down with All Parties!

At 61, John Creasey, creator of such world-famous figures as 'The Toff' and 'Gideon of the Yard,' is the world's most pr

Raymond Williams: Border Country

Raymond Williams, novelist and lecturer, thinks university education should be fitted to the demands of real life. He be

John Cherrington: The Green Revolution

The prophets of doom who predict our imminent starvation are wrong. Man can easily feed himself. Miracle wheats, mammoth

Clive Jenkins: The Class That Came in from the Cold

Once upon a time there was a middle class who believed that they were part of the ruling system. Mergers, take-overs, co

Dom Moraes: Return as a Stranger

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

John Skeaping: I Draw As Though I Were A Horse Writing His Autobiography

"Today we are not as dependent on animals as we once were. Our approach to animals is largely based on sentiment - we li

Idries Shah: The Dreamwalkers

Idries Shah, writer and traveller, descendant of the prophet Mahomet, sees our Western way of life through eyes trained

George Mikes: Alien's Return

A generation of Communist rule changes many things - but not the real character of the people. George Mikes, writer, hum

Mai Zetterling: You Must Make People Angry

Mai Zetterling gives her own provocative views on the world as she sees it - views on marriage, on the pressures of cont

John Crosby: Doomsday Never Comes

"Pessimism about the future is very fashionable - and very profitable. But if I could have any period of history to live

John Dancy: We Must Offer a Vision

Headmaster of Lancing when he was only 33, now headmaster of Marlborough, John Dancy "believes a public school can only

Des Wilson: Charities Are Not Enough

Up to the beginning of this year, 30-year-old Des Wilson was the director of Shelter, the charity which has done so much

Anthony Grey: One Man's Freedom

Anthony Grey was the Reuters correspondent in Peking at the height of China's Cultural Revolution. He was arrested by th

Laurens van der Post: A Region of Shadow

Himself of Afrikaans origin, and as a young man one of the first to oppose racialism in South Africa, writer and explore

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu: You're Never Alone with a Stately Home...

This weekend, between 8,000 and 10,000 people each day will visit Lord Montagu's-home at Beaulieu in Hampshire. Is this

John Braine: The Magic Is Here and Now

In this personally authored documentary, John Braine, who is probably best remembered for his first novel, Room at the T

Leonardo Ricci: Starting from Zero

Starting from zero, says Leonardo Ricci, 'is the point every man should arrive at. A man is a man when he finds himself

Sir Michael Tippett: Poets in a Barren Age

What useful purpose is served by the creative artist in society? In a harsh world where millions starve, do poems or pai

Reyner Banham: Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

It's not unusual for people to come back from Los Angeles with horror stories about violence, pollution and the sheer un

Lord Caradon: Race Against Time

Now that Britain has lost her empire is there a role for us in the world? Lord Caradon, formerly Sir Hugh Foot, who beca

Tom Stoppard: Tom Stoppard Doesn't Know

'Almost everybody I know has firm opinions about almost everything. It's better to have halitosis than to have no opinio

Arthur Dooley: We're Coming into our Own

'The core of Christianity is the Resurrection,' says Dooley, 'because the Resurrection is about hope and life.' Arthur D

Mark Boxer: Half Way Mark

Mark Boxer is the resident cartoonist ('Marc') of The Times, and Associate Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine which he

David Franklin: ...I Sometimes Think I Don't Really Belong

'The only thing worth having,' David Franklin asserts, 'is something you've worked to get and can take pride in.' Words

Spike Milligan: If You've Got a Pair of Eyes, Use Them

Spike Milligan is a very funny serious man and a very serious funny man. For him life's problem is to tiptoe through the

Allan Prior: The Real Thing is Always Worse

Allan Prior is a writer of fiction - novels, films, TV plays - but he is probably best known for his scripts for Z Cars

Lord Soper: Love God - And Do As You Please

In our so-called 'Permissive Society', discipline is an unfashionable concept. The emphasis on personal freedom and the

Lady Antonia Fraser: A Life in My Hands

Lady Antonia Fraser is the best-selling biographer of Cromwell and Mary Queen of Scots. To her, biography is a special a

Alan Garner: All Systems Go!

Alan Garner, the brilliantly successful author of books that dazzle and haunt children - and haunt adults, too - is a ma

Paul Johnson: The Road to Ruritania

During the lifetime of most of us Britain has moved into the ranks of the second-class powers. The decline in our power

Lady Betjeman Penelope Chetwode: A Passion for India

In the course of an exotic and adventurous journey the wife of the Poet Laureate, astride an Indian hill pony, carries o

Diane Cilento: Who Am I?

Australian actress Diane Cilento seeks spiritual answers on a communal farm run by followers of GI Gurdjieff, including

Russell Braddon: Epitaph to a Friendship

The friendship between Australia and Britain is dead, declares Australian author Russell Braddon , who has lived here si

Robert Carrier: Food Is a Four-Letter Word - L-O-V-E

Restaurateur and writer, American-born Robert Carrier, illustrates through his own lifelong enjoyment of good eating tha

Eric Newby: I Didn't Know Life Would Be Like This!

Adventure, travel, the challenge of the unpredictable: these are the ingredients of Eric Newby's life. As a boy he saile

Sir Bernard Lovell: As a Man Is, So He Sees

A country childhood. A strict religious upbringing. A very English addiction to cricket. A profound love of music, parti