Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
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Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court
Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?
Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1
Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2
Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3
Theatre: A Dream Come True
Robert Altman
Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer
Frank Westmore
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Cinema: Eric Rohmer
Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manha
Cinema: Don Siegel
Theatre: The Cultural Common Market
Cinema
Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell
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Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle
Cinema: Christmas Special
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Art and Design: Sam Smith: Genuine England/Arena Review
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Theatre: Spokesong/At Home with Mole
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Art and Design: Ralph Steadman
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Theatre: The Cultural Common Market: Peter Stein and the Schaubuhne
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Art and Design: What Is a Hologram?/Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon
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Theatre: A Night Out
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Art and Design: Family Pieces/Both Sides of the Line/The Divine and the Fantastic
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Theatre: The Prospect Before Us
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Art and Design: The Continuous Diary/Dine's Drawings
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Theatre: Playwrights of the 70's
Edinburgh Festival
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Art and Design
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Cinema: Greece
Art and Design: Richard Seifert
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Theatre: Hands Off the Classics
Cinema: 21st London Film Festival
Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag
Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 2
Theatre: Leonard Rossiter
Cinema: The Deep
Cinema: The Force is with us?
Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
Cinema: The Force is with us? - Part 2/Howard Hawks
Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard
Cinema: Joseph Conrad
Art and Design: Carrington
Cinema: Claude Renoir
Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Art and Design: Carl Andre
Cinema: Dancing Years
Theatre: Taking Our Time
Art and Design: Way Out West
Theatre: Children of the Gods
Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?
Art and Design: George Melly
Theatre: Arnold Wesker
Rock: Tubes on Tour
Episode 99
Vanessa Redgrave
Arena: Cinema
Arena: Cinema
Arena: Cinema
Arena: The Museum of Drawers
On Photography
Arena: Cinema
Arena: Cinema
Who is Poly Styrene?
Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes
Arena: Cinema
Maler's Requiem - Words and Images
Piaf AND What Did You Do in 'The Warp' Daddy?
Arena: Cinema
Other Writers Will Tell You Different and The Moving Picture Mime Show
Arena: Cinema
Ubu
My Way
Arena: Cinema
La Dame aux Gladiolas
'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On
Arena: Cinema
Tell Us the Truth
The King and I AND Journey to the Surface of the Earth
Their Lips are Sealed
Steel Pulse
Ring Around the Moon
Pictures of the Mind
Six Days in September
Building for Change
Athol Fugard A Lesson from Aloes
Lene Lovich Sleeping Beauty
Mentioned in Dispatches
Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs Pupko's Beard
Peggy Taub, the Learned Goat and Other People ...
Bring Me Back a Song
' I talk about me - I am Africa'
Rudies Come Back or The Rise and Rise of 2-Tone
Working At It
Victoria Wood and Andrea Dunbar
Climb Every Mountain or Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Double Vision
Dedicated Followers of Fashion
Luck and Flaw
In Their Own Image AND Facing Up to Myself
Making 'The Shining'
Dire Straits
Chelsea Hotel
Hazell Meets His Makers
Getting Away from Sidney
Private Worlds
Today Carshalton Beaches ... Tomorrow Croydon
Edward Hopper
Stages
The Smallest Theatre
Huston's Hobby
A Walk with Amos Oz
God's Fifth Columnist
Did You Miss Me ...?
The Return of Lupino Lane
The Comic Strip Hero
Arena on Clair
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
If the Music Had to Stop
Curtains? The Future of the National Youth Theatre
The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda
'I Thought I Was Taller' A Short History of Mel Brooks
Have You Seen the Mona Lisa...?
Let Them Know We're Here
A Pretty British Affair
The Art of Radio Times AND The Eye of the 'Eye'
A Tall Story: How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India
Brixton to Barbados
Private Life of the Ford Cortina
What Makes Rabbit Run?
Here They Kill People for It
True to Life?
Desert Island Discs
Listen to Britain AND Housing Problems
The Orson Welles Story: Part One
The Orson Welles Story: Part Two
Mike Leigh Making Plays
A Genius Like Us
A Play for Bridport
Upon Westminster Bridge
Three Steps to Heaven
Angus McBean
Happy Days (Samuel Beckett Season)
Eh Joe (Samuel Beckett Season)
Rockaby (Samuel Beckett Season)
Not I (Samuel Beckett Season)
Quad (Samuel Beckett Season)
Krapp's Last Tape (Samuel Beckett Season)
Guernica: The Long Exile
Classically Cuban: Alicia Alonso and the Cuban National Ballet
Hair
Boulez Now
Jazz Juke Box
Burroughs
The Catherine Wheel
Kurt Vonnegut
It's All True
Luis Bunuel
Bette Davis - The Benevolent Volcano
Anthony Powell - An Invitation to the Dance
The Ghost Writer
Jazz Juke-Box II
Roman Vishniac
Classic British Documentaries
The GPO Story
The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
George Orwell 1: Such Such Were the Joys
George Orwell 2: The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell 3: Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell 4: The Lion and the Unicorn
George Orwell 4: Nineteen Eighty-four
Say Amen Someone
Four Rooms
The Theatre of Dario Fo
Sunset People
The Caravaggio Conspiracy
Between Dreaming and Waking
Ken Russell 's Elgar
Jerry Lee Lewis
True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
My Dinner with Louis
Milan Kundera- Laughter and Forgetting
A Tribute to Joseph Losey
Beat This! A Hip Hop History
The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
Eubie Blake
Francis Bacon
We Don't Like Your House Either!
Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense: The Music of Fela Kuti
After the Rehearsal
What's Cuba Playing At?
Music of the other Americas
Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden
My Son the Novelist
Painting for Pleasure ... and Profit: Five Artists of the 80s
Marcel Carne
From an Immigrant's Notebook: Karen Blixen in Africa
How Glorious is the Garden?
Old Kent Road
Ligmalion
Them and Uz: A film about Tony Harrison
Marc Chagall
Watch Me Move...
Hugh Masekela: The African Ambassador
The Theatre of Robert Wilson
Blues Night: Introduction
Blues Night: Sonny Boy Williamson Sings
Blues Night: B.B. King Speaks
Blues Night: Chicago Blues
Blues Night: Blind John Davis
Blues Night: Blues Medley
Blues Night: Big Bill Blues
Buddy Holly
Saint Genet
The Accordion Strikes Back
The Cinema of Francesco Rosi
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
The Apollo Story: part 1
The Apollo Story: part 2
Tosca's Kiss
The New Babylon
Tango Mio
Cinderella
The Journey Man
Go-Go in Washington DC
Marguerite Yourcenar
Louise Brooks
Kurosawa
Two Painters Amazed
Home Front
Caribbean Nights: Caribbean Journey
Caribbean Nights: Medley
Caribbean Nights: Poetry
Caribbean Nights: Ska
Caribbean Nights: The Latin Caribbean
Caribbean Nights: Maytime on the Mosquito Coast
Caribbean Nights: Calypso and Carnival
Caribbean Nights: Whicker's Caribbean World
Caribbean Nights: Latin Sound
Caribbean Nights: God's Chillun
Caribbean Nights Bob Marley
Caribbean Nights: C.L.R. James's First Cricket XI
Caribbean Nights: Danzon
Caribbean Nights: Rasta and the Ball
Caribbean Nights: Arturo Sandoval
Caribbean Nights: Kapo
Henry Moore
Salvador Dali
The Life and Times of Don Luis Bunuel
The Spirit of Lorca
Cambodian Witness
Scarfe on Scarfe
Night Moves
TURN ON THE LIGHTS
The Quest For Everest
Icons Unearthed: Harry Potter
Ice Patrol
LIGHT & MAGIC
Cascadeurs
Looking for the Hobbit
In Our Care. The Keeper's Choice.
Pyros: Painting with Fire
Frontline: China, The U.S. & The Rise of Xi Jinping
The Neistat Brothers
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Creating the World of Harry Potter
Inside Legacy Cinema
La Course Destination Monde
How To with John Wilson
HK2NY: Hong Kong to New York - Backpacking Documentary Series
Behind the Opening Ceremony: The Director's Cut
James Bond Confidentiel
Submarine