One Pair of Eyes

Beryl Cook: I Have No Message

Feb 19, 1984

A highly successful yet totally untrained artist, Beryl Cook only started painting in her late 30s. Her subjects are mostly women, usually middle-aged and nearly always enjoying themselves. Plymouth, where she lives provides the setting for

Simon Trehearne: An Independent Life

Feb 26, 1984

Because of an accident during his birth Simon Trehearne is mentally handicapped. But he lives and works in the community, sharing a house with a handicapped friend; he believes passionately that people like himself can and should lead indep

John Wells: The Monkey Puzzle

Mar 4, 1984

Why do we work? Why are we made miserable by having to work, and even more miserable when we can't? What is work? Can work be called work when it's fun? Is the need to work inborn in man? John Wells embarks on a serious investigation of thi

Peter Hillmore: Making Mischief

Mar 11, 1984

'It's fun having two identities. It makes me a sort of Clark Kent of The Observer. By day I am shy, retiring Peter Hillmore ; by night I become the suave, dinner-jacketed crusader Pendennis - licensed to poke my nose into other people's bus

Zdena Tomin: Nationality Uncertain

Mar 18, 1984

A room in East London that remained locked for 30 years... Soviet tanks in the streets of Prague... a battered typewriter... a bridge near Oxford that leads nowhere... the Bengali community in Spitalfields... a peace march: these are some o

Laurie Taylor: Country Blues

Apr 1, 1984

A confirmed nature-hater since childhood, Laurie Taylor sets out from his weekend cottage in Battersea to try to find his 'true self in the country'. Armed with Ordnance Survey and Collected Wordsworth he is quickly lost - 'a townie in the