Country of the Blind
The last of three programmes about Man's conflict with Nature. Narrated by Robert Hardy
In the Volta River basin of West Africa, a million people suffer from onchocerciasis - a disease which causes ' river-blindness ' - and 100,000 of them are partially or totally blind. In 1974 United Nations agencies launched a multi-million dollar campaign to wipe out the blackfly which causes river-blindness and develop the hinterland of seven African countries.
This film follows the course of the campaign and shows what happens when a vast international aid project sets out to change the nature of a territory of some half-million square miles.
Film cameraman JACK BELLAMY Film editor TOM poore
Written and directed by JOHN ELLIOT Series editors MICHAEL ANDREWS and ANTHONY ISAACS. BBC Bristol