David Frost Interviews Ian Smith, Rhodesian Prime Minister 1964 - 1979. The Legendary interviewer Sir David Frost conducted some of the controversial interviews of the 20th century, including an international fraudster, Racist, and a Fascist. Sir David Frost doesn't hold back with his in-depth questioning style and exposes his interviewees for who they are. In this, the original and uncut interview for The Frost Programme, Sir David Frost interviews Ian Smith. The Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Rhodesia from the United Kingdom was signed on 11th November 1965, by the administration of Ian Smith whose Rhodesian Front party opposed black majority in the then British colony.
One of the most controversial MPs of the twentieth century, by 1968 Powell had been sacked from his position as Shadow Defence Secretary due to his inflammatory and divisive "Rivers of Blood" speech. A poet, author, classical scholar and soldier (he achieved the rank of Brigadier in World War II) Powell's radical oratory on immigration polarised a generation and remains contentious to this day. Scheduled only to run for the standard 39 minutes, Frost's interview with Powell was so powerful that a decision was made during it's live transmission to extend it by a further twenty minutes, after the News at Ten. Sixty minutes of continuous cut-and-thrust debate highlight this programme as one of the benchmark interviews of David Frost's career.