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Face to Face

Face to Face

1959 - 1995

Lord Birkett

4th February 1959
Episode 1
No overview available.

Bertrand Russell

4th March 1959
Episode 2
Philosopher 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 are guilt, sex, money, childhood, prison and loss of faith.

Dame Edith Sitwell

6th May 1959
Episode 3
John 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 Thomas, and her unexpected diversion into Hollywood.

Lord Boothby

27th May 1959
Episode 4
No overview available.

Nubar Gulbenkian

15th July 1959
Episode 5
No overview available.

Adlai E. Stevenson

22nd July 1959
Episode 6
Adlai 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 him, and how he sees himself.

John Huston

1st September 1959
Episode 7
A 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.

Professor Jung

22nd October 1959
Episode 8
John 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-analysis.

Lord Morrison of Lambeth

18th December 1959
Episode 9
No overview available.

His Majesty King Hussein of Jordan

1st January 1960
Episode 10
No overview available.

Lord Shawcross Q.C.

10th January 1960
Episode 11
No overview available.

Tony Hancock

7th February 1960
Episode 12
Tony 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.

Henry Moore

21st February 1960
Episode 13
No overview available.

Dr. Hastings Banda

22nd April 1960
Episode 14
No overview available.

Augustus John

15th May 1960
Episode 15
No overview available.

Sir Roy Welensky

29th May 1960
Episode 16
No overview available.

Stirling Moss

12th June 1960
Episode 17
Racing 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 feel close to God? What about the breakdown of his marriage?

Evelyn Waugh

26th June 1960
Episode 18
Evelyn 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 fiction, and Waugh's own periods of mental illness.
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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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