Face to Face
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Face to Face

8.0 / 10
1959
4 seasons
69 episodes

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

    04-02-195930m
  • Ep 2

    2.Bertrand Russell

    04-03-195943m

    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 a...

  • Ep 3

    3.Dame Edith Sitwell

    06-05-195930m

    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 T...

  • Ep 4

    4.Lord Boothby

    27-05-195930m
  • Ep 5

    5.Nubar Gulbenkian

    15-07-195930m
  • Ep 6

    6.Adlai E. Stevenson

    22-07-195930m

    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 h...

  • Ep 7

    7.John Huston

    01-09-195930m

    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.

  • Ep 8

    8.Professor Jung

    22-10-195938m

    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-anal...

  • Ep 9

    9.Lord Morrison of Lambeth

    18-12-195930m
  • Ep 10

    10.His Majesty King Hussein of Jordan

    01-01-196030m
  • Ep 11

    11.Lord Shawcross Q.C.

    10-01-196030m
  • Ep 12

    12.Tony Hancock

    07-02-196030m

    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.

  • Ep 13

    13.Henry Moore

    21-02-196030m
  • Ep 14

    14.Dr. Hastings Banda

    22-04-196030m
  • Ep 15

    15.Augustus John

    15-05-196030m
  • Ep 16

    16.Sir Roy Welensky

    29-05-196030m
  • Ep 17

    17.Stirling Moss

    12-06-196030m

    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 fee...

  • Ep 18

    18.Evelyn Waugh

    26-06-196030m

    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 fictio...

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