One of our least talked-about grand old men is John Freeman, now 92. Not only a wartime officer, Attlee minister, New Statesman editor, High Commissioner in India, Ambassador to Washington, Chairman of London Weekend Television, ITN President, Visiting Professor in California and (best of all, surely?) bowls commentator, in the Fifties and Sixties he was a ground-breaking TV interviewer with his in-depth programme Face to Face.
Here are some sound-only extracts from his 1960 encounter with Evelyn Waugh. Not included is what Waugh had to say about his autobiographical novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, but you can find that here. Was this Waugh's only brush with television?
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