Hugh Burnett
Director
Face to Face (1959)
Season 2
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.
Released Feb. 4, 1959
Episode 35 min
None+
Genres: Talk Show
Keywords: tmdb.interview, imdb.body-part-in-title, imdb.three-word-title, imdb.repetition-in-title
Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Gilbert Harding
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.
Sept. 18, 1960, midnight
S2E7 - Otto Klemperer
Jan. 8, 1961, midnight
S2E2 - General von Senger und Etterlin
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.
Oct. 2, 1960, midnight
S2E3 - Lord Reith
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.
Oct. 30, 1960, midnight
S2E4 - Simone Signoret
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."
Nov. 13, 1960, midnight
S2E5 - Victor Gollancz
Nov. 27, 1960, midnight
S2E6 - Adam Faith
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.
Dec. 11, 1960, midnight
BBC One
35 min/ep
35 min
Feb. 4, 1959
Nov. 6, 1995, midnight
Ended
NR
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