Guests on The Frost Programme included such controversial political figures as Sir Oswald Mosley (leader in the 1930s of the British Union of Fascists), and Ian Smith (the Rhodesian prime minister and defender of minority rule).
But the show was most significant for Frost’s combative interview in 1967 with Emil Savundra, in which he angrily challenged the insurance fraudster before a studio audience that included Savundra’s victims.
The interview was criticised as trial by television and ITV managers worried that the interview compromised Savundra’s right to a fair trial.
Also in 1967, John Lennon and George Harrison made two rare television appearances on The Frost Programme, where they discussed meditation and the use of LSD
