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Face to Face : Season 1
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Air date: 04 Feb '59 - 18 episodesFace 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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List of Episodes (18)
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Face to Face (1959)
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1. Lord Birkett
04 Feb '59
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2. Bertrand Russell
04 Mar '59Philosopher 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.
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3. Dame Edith Sitwell
06 May '59John 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.
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4. Lord Boothby
27 May '59
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5. Nubar Gulbenkian
15 Jul '59
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6. Adlai E. Stevenson
22 Jul '59Adlai 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.
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7. John Huston
01 Sep '59A 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.
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8. Professor Jung
22 Oct '59John 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.
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9. Lord Morrison of Lambeth
18 Dec '59
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10. His Majesty King Hussein of Jordan
01 Jan '60
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11. Lord Shawcross Q.C.
10 Jan '60
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12. Tony Hancock
07 Feb '60Tony 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.
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13. Henry Moore
21 Feb '60
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14. Dr. Hastings Banda
22 Apr '60
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15. Augustus John
15 May '60
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16. Sir Roy Welensky
29 May '60
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17. Stirling Moss
12 Jun '60Racing 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?
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18. Evelyn Waugh
26 Jun '60Evelyn 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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