Face To Face was a live 35 episode BBC British television series broadcast between 1959 and 1962. The insightful and often probing style of the interviewer, former politician John Freeman, distinguished it from other programmes of its genre. The camera angles and shots were also distinctive, with Freeman out of shot and the camera always on the subject, sometimes concentrating on a nervously smoked cigarette or a close-up of a face. The theme music was an excerpt from the overture to Berlioz' opera Les Francs-juges. The titles for each episode featured caricatures of that week's subject by Feliks Topolski. For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... The Right Honorable Major John Freeman, MBE was born on 19 February 1915. ... Portrait of Berlioz by Signol, 1832 Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie Fantastique, first performed in 1830, and for his Requiem of 1837, with its tremendous resources that include four antiphonal brass choirs. ... Feliks Topolski (1907-1989) was a Polish-born British expressionist painter. ...

Revived in 1990 with Jeremy Isaacs as its host, the questioner attempted to mimic the style of his predecessor with a similar interview technique. However most of this later series's subjects were more familiar with the medium than the earlier guests, so it was quite difficult to catch them off guard. This article is about the year. ... Sir Jeremy Isaacs (b. ...

Guests of the earlier series included Tony Hancock and Gilbert Harding, both of whom seemed disturbed by the questioning, but both of whom later endorsed Freeman's interview style. Biography published in 1978 (1983 paperback reprint shown) Anthony John Hancock, best known as Tony Hancock (May 12, 1924 – June 24, 1968) was a major figure in British television and radio comedy in the 1950s and 1960s. ... Gilbert Charles Harding was born in Hereford on the 5 June 1907. ...

Episodes of the original Face to Face were shown frequently on BBC Knowledge and still turn up occasionally on BBC Four, especially during seasons such as The Lost Decade in October 2005. BBC Knowledge was an early BBC digital television channel, available by cable, satellite, or terrestrial digital broadcasting, providing a strong programme of documentary, cultural and educational television. ... BBC Four Ident BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began on March 2, 2002 – its first evenings programmes being simulcast on BBC Two. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Incomplete list of Subjects

• Unidentified: January 11, 1959
• Lord Birkett: February 4, 1959
• Bertrand Russell: March 4, 1959
• Dame Edith Sitwell: May 6, 1959
• Lord Boothby: May 27, 1959
• Nubar Gulbenkian: July 15, 1959
• Adlai Stevenson: July 22, 1959
• John Huston: September 1, 1959
• Carl Gustav Jung: October 22, 1959
• Lord Morrison of Lambeth: December 18, 1959
• King Hussein of Jordan: January 1, 1960
• Lord Shawcross: January 10, 1960
• Tony Hancock: February 7, 1960
• Henry Moore: February 21, 1960
• Dr Hastings Banda: April 22, 1960
• Augustus John: May 15, 1960
• Sir Roy Welensky: May 29, 1960
• Stirling Moss: June 12, 1960
• Evelyn Waugh: June 26, 1960
• Gilbert Harding: September 18, 1960
• General Von Senger: October 2, 1960
• Lord Reith: October 30, 1960
• Simone Signoret: November 13, 1960
• Victor Gollancz: November 27, 1960
• Adam Faith: December 11, 1960
• Otto Klemperer: January 8, 1961
• Frank Cussins: October 15, 1961
• Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr: October 29, 1961
• Jomo Kenyatta: November 26, 1961
• Sir Compton Mackenzie: January 7, 1962
• John Osborne: January 21, 1962
• Roy Thompson: February 4, 1962
• Cecil Beaton: February 18, 1962
• Albert Finney: March 4, 1962
• Danny Blanchflower: March 18]], 1962

• Roger Corman (1990 revival)
• Paul Eddington (1990 revival)

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Further reading

• A book of the same name was published in 1964 with portraits by Felix Topolski.