Face to Face
Face To Face is a BBC television series originally broadcast between 1959 and 1962, created and produced by Hugh Burnett, which ran for 35 episodes. The insightful and often probing style of the interviewer, former politician John Freeman, separated it from other programmes of the time. The series was revived in 1989 with Jeremy Isaacs as the interviewer. This version ran until 1998.
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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Lord Birkett
04-02-195930 min - Ep 2
2.Bertrand Russell
04-03-195943 minPhilosopher Bertrand Russell is the second guest on the series, beginning the interview by reading from a fictitious obituary he'd written for himself. Among the topics discussed a...
- Ep 3
3.Dame Edith Sitwell
06-05-195930 minJohn Freeman interviews the first of just two female guests in the series - poet Dame Edith Sitwell. The Dame discusses her unhappy childhood, her working relationship with Dylan T...
- Ep 4
4.Lord Boothby
27-05-195930 min - Ep 5
5.Nubar Gulbenkian
15-07-195930 min - Ep 6
6.Adlai E. Stevenson
22-07-195930 minAdlai Stevenson relives his early life in journalism and law, and discusses losing two Presidential elections to Dwight Eisenhower. Among his other reflections are how others see h...
- Ep 7
7.John Huston
01-09-195930 minA cigar-puffing John Huston discusses his directing career, his desire to make films under the United Nations, his relationship with his father and fighting with Errol Flynn.
- Ep 8
8.Professor Jung
22-10-195938 minJohn Freeman interviews Carl Jung at his Zürich home, asking the psychologist questions about consciousness, his friendship with Freud, his thoughts on death, and his own self-anal...
- Ep 9
9.Lord Morrison of Lambeth
18-12-195930 min - Ep 10
10.His Majesty King Hussein of Jordan
01-01-196030 min - Ep 11
11.Lord Shawcross Q.C.
10-01-196030 min - Ep 12
12.Tony Hancock
07-02-196030 minTony Hancock engages in self reflection, looking back at his childhood, his need to work, his health issues, and whether he could ever truly be happy.
- Ep 13
13.Henry Moore
21-02-196030 min - Ep 14
14.Dr. Hastings Banda
22-04-196030 min - Ep 15
15.Augustus John
15-05-196030 min - Ep 16
16.Sir Roy Welensky
29-05-196030 min - Ep 17
17.Stirling Moss
12-06-196030 minRacing driver Stirling Moss is called upon to ponder his career. Customary for the series, the questions go deeper than usual interviews: Does he think about mortality? Does he fee...
- Ep 18
18.Evelyn Waugh
26-06-196030 minEvelyn Waugh takes part in the series due to what he claims is "poverty", and that "everyone thinks ill of the BBC". Among the topics under discussion are religion, truth in fictio...
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