Season 2
7 episodes · Sep 18, 1960
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- S2E1
Gilbert Harding
Sep 18, 196030mArguably 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.
- S2E2
General von Senger und Etterlin
Oct 2, 196030mFridolin 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.
- S2E3
Lord Reith
Oct 30, 196030mJohn 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.
- S2E4
Simone Signoret
Nov 13, 196030mJohn 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."
- S2E6
Adam Faith
Dec 11, 196030m45-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.