One Pair of Eyes, the celebrated series of highly-personal films, ran for eight years - from 1967 to 1974. For this series, one programme from each of those years has been selected.
Dom Moraes, poet and journalist, examines his situation as a coloured Englishman who suddenly feels he is an immigrant. 'On 20 April 1968, Enoch Powell made his notorious speech in Birmingham on race relations. It suddenly seemed that he was expressing the feeling of the man-in-the-street in England. It seemed to me that the whole of my life here must be based on a false premise.'
Dom Moraes looks back over his own life; his childhood in India; his literary success, winning the Hawthornden Prize for his poetry at the age of 20; his time at Oxford; his marriage into an English county family; and then goes to Bradford to see to what extent he can identify with ordinary immigrants.
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