Face to Face

Season 2

1960 · 7 episodes · 3h 30m in all

Episodes

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   1. Gilbert Harding

   18 Sept 1960 · 30 min

   Arguably the most famous episode of the series, as Gilbert Harding verges on breaking down under John Freeman's questioning. "I shall be very glad to be dead" remains a poignant response - Harding died less than two months after broadcast.

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   2. General von Senger und Etterlin

   2 Oct 1960 · 30 min

   Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin discusses his role in the second World War, including whether he was ever accused of war crimes, and whether he was given any orders he felt were unacceptable.

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   3. Lord Reith

   30 Oct 1960 · 30 min

   John Freeman talks to a former director-general of his own employer, as ex-BBC head Lord John Reith discusses his early life and time with the corporation. Debated among the two is the value of the BBC in Reith's time, and in the present.

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   4. Simone Signoret

   13 Nov 1960 · 30 min

   John Freeman and Simone Signoret play a verbal game of cat and mouse, as he wants to know "the woman behind the actor's mask." However, Simone is deliberate in what she reveals, answering one question with "I think that's my own business."

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   5. Victor Gollancz

   27 Nov 1960 · 30 min

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   6. Adam Faith

   11 Dec 1960 · 30 min

   45-year-old John Freeman admits that he's been "consulting some teenage friends of mine" as he interviews his first pop star, Adam Faith. Faith talks about the difference between his showbusiness persona and his real self, Terry Nelhams.

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   7. Otto Klemperer

   8 Jan 1961 · 30 min