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Season 2

7 episodes · 1960

  1. 1Gilbert Harding

    18 Sep 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.

  2. 2General von Senger und Etterlin

    02 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.

  3. 3Lord 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.

  4. 4Simone 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."

  5. 5Victor Gollancz

    27 Nov 1960 · 30 min

  6. 6Adam 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.

  7. 7Otto Klempererfinale

    08 Jan 1961 · 30 min