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BD8: Part 1: The Enclosed World of the Blind

on BBC One London

A documentary film by Philip Donnellan and Charles Parker.
"They've got a dossier on each of a sort of MI5 or Gestapo... I don't know it's a bad thing particularly except so much of blind welfare is carried out by sighted people deciding the sort of thing you ought to want." (A blind workman)
"A picture of helplessness was too often portrayed to the sighted public in order to raise funds for blind welfare." (A blind factory manager)
From the Midlands
See page 39
(Part 2: The Independence of the Blind, tomorrow at 9.5)

Contributors

Producer:
Philip Donnellan
Producer:
Charles Parker

BBC One London

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