Complex sentence: However the tables were briefly turned in 1960 when he was reduced to tears on the live show Face to Face, after being questioned by the host John Freeman, who asked Harding if he had ever been in the presence of a dead person.
Split into simpler sentences: However the tables were briefly turned in 1960 when he was reduced to tears on the live show Face to Face, after being questioned by the host John Freeman. As the focus of the interview moved onto death, Freeman asked Harding if he had ever been in the presence of a dead person.