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.
1971: Laurens van der Post explores
A Region of Shadow
Himself of Afrikaans origin, and as a young man one of the first to oppose racialism in South Africa, the distinguished writer LAURENS VAN DER POST attempts to discover the causes at the heart of racial prejudice.
In this film he goes on a journey of rediscovery to South Africa and elsewhere. But his journey is also an inward one, to the dark recesses of the human mind.
Producer MALCOLM BROWN
Directed by STEPHEN CROSS