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
Theatre
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
Cinema
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
Cinema
Art and Design: What Is a Hologram?/Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon
Cinema
Theatre: A Night Out
Cinema
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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Cinema
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Theatre: Playwrights of the 70's
Edinburgh Festival
Cinema
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Art and Design
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Cinema: Greece
Art and Design: Richard Seifert
Cinema
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
Dylan
Stand by Your Dream: Tammy Wynette
Night and Day
Dennis Potter
Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas
The Confessions of Robert Crumb
Ruth, Roses and Revolver
A Brother with Perfect Timing
Tarkovsky's Cinema
Putting Ourselves in the Picture
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
Bayan Ko Pilipinas
Talk is Cheap
The Waugh Trilogy: Bright Young Thing
The Waugh Trilogy: Mayfair and the Jungle
The Waugh Trilogy: An Englishman's Home
German Festival: Joseph Beuys
ScreenPlay: Cariani and the Courtesans
Revolutionary with a Paintbox
Invisible Ink
Of Cats and Mice
Woody Guthrie
The Dandy-Beano Story
Broadway - The Great White Way
Ryszard Kapuscinski: Your Man Who is There
The Emperor
My Name Is Celia Cruz
All on a Mardi Gras Day Part One
All on a Mardi Gras Day: Part Two
Kerouac
An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 1
An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 2
Robert Mapplethorpe
The English Thoroughbred
Byrne About Byrne
Rhythms of the World: Randy Travis at the Albert Hall
Ten Green Bottles
Clint Eastwood: The Man with No Name.
Moving Across the World on Horses
History Boys on the Rampage
The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
Tales from Barcelona
Blackpool
The Tip of the Iceberg
Laurens van der Post and Albert Sample
New York - The Secret African City
Eugene Ionesco : the Joke's on Us
John Cassavetes
Power in the Blood
The Old Brass Plate Rattle Test - the Englishman and his Jukebox
Juke Box Jury
Berthold Lubetkin
Heavy Metal
The Other Graham Greene
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 1: A Traveller's Tale
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 2: How High the Moon
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 3: My Dinner with Dizzy
Animal Night: Smashing Pigs
Animal Night: Sacred Elephant
Animal Night: Great Wildlife Presenters Through the Ages
Animal Night: John Daniel the First
Animal Night: A Day in the Life of Sam the Dog
Animal Night: Animals on Trial
Animal Night: The Animal Night Debate
25 x 5: the Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones
Numbers
Oblomov
Jerry Lee Lewis
Roberto Rossellini
Next Time Dear God Please Choose Someone Else
Salif Keita
Fred Zinnemann: A Director's Life
Spike and Company - Do It a Cappella
Peggy and Her Playwrights
The English Rose
Paris Is Burning
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Havana
The Princess
The Ten Commandments of Krzysztof Kieslowski
Le Paris Black
Kino Perestroika
The Daily Worker Story
Oooh Er, Missus! - The Frankie Howerd Story
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
The Fever
Food Night: Introduction
Food Night: Modern Food
Food Night: Great Moments in Food History
Food Night: The Story of Food in 27 Minutes and 43 Seconds
Food Night: Good Manners
Food Night: What's Kosher?
Food Night: The Last Supper
Food Night: The Complete History of the Potato
Food Night: I Just Happen to Have One Here I Made Earlier
Food Night: Movable Feast - the Politics of Disgust
Food Night: Eating for One
Food Night: Fasting and Abstinence
Food Night: Debate
Lifepulse - a Natural Thriller
Miller Meets Mandela
Derek Jarman - a Portrait
Anselm Kiefer : Operation Sealion
The Strange Story of Joe Meek
The Other Roci
Caroline 199 - A Pirate's Tale
Staring at the Ceiling
Three Irish Writers
One Irish Rover
The Importance of Being Oscar
The Other
Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon
Elmore Leonard 's Criminal Records
The Human Face
Texas Saturday Night
The Grass Arena
Billy, How Did You Do It? 1
Billy, How Did You Do It? 2
Billy, How Did You Do It? 3
Masters of the Canvas
Oliver Stone
Fatwa
Six Degrees of Separation: a New York Tale
The Incredible Case of Comrade
Croatia - the Artists' War
Otto Dix : a Tale of Two Germanies
Chi-Chi the Panda
Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up
Last Supper - Frank on Frank
A Spanish Odyssey - a Portrait of Javier Mariscal
An Argentinian Journey: 1: The Gaucho and the Pampas
An Argentinian Journey: 2: Zamba, Chacarera and Chamame
An Argentinian Journey: 3: Pacha Mama - Sacred Land
Sportswriter: the Fight, the Match and the Race
Linda McCartney, behind the Lens
The Graham Green Trilogy: England Made Me (1904-39)
The Graham Greene Trilogy: The Dangerous Edge (1940-60)
The Graham Greene Trilogy: A World of My Own (1961-91)
On the Road with Boggs
The Grateful and the Dead
A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie
Larry Kramer
Edward Said: the Idea of Empire
The Last Soviet Citizen
Derek Walcott
Zhang Yimou
Philip Roth
Only the Names Have Been Changed
Weegee
Duchamp's Fountain
Edgar Reitz: Return to Heimat
Tales Of Rock And Roll: Peggy Sue
Not a Bad Girl
Heartbreak Hotel
Walk on the Wild Side
Highway 61 Revisited
Arena: Radio Night: Introduction
Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio: First: the Infant.
Radio Night: TV Talk, Radio Rabbit What does the voice reveal?
Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 2: The Schoolboy.
Radio Night: Heard But Not Seen
Radio Night: Back to Square One
Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 3: The Lover.
Radio Night: Sunday Dinner
Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 4: The Soldier.
Radio Night: Pirates
Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 5: The Judge.
Radio Night: TV Theft, Radio Rip-Off
Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 6: The Old Man.
Radio Night: The Spot FX Man
Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 7: Senility.
Radio Night: It's Life, Jim
Radio Night: The Time Signal
Radio Night: The Two Voyages of Donald Crowhurst
Radio Night: The Shipping Forecast
The Next Voice You Hear
In Search of Oz
Who Is Vladimir Pozner?
The Dark Side of Black
The Ring - a South London Tale
Glitterbug
Theatre without Actors
Kalashnikov
Trouble Man - the Last Years of Marvin Gaye
Relics Introduction
Relics: Einstein's Brain
Relics: Curse of the Firebeetle
Relics: The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin
Philip K Dick - a Day In the Afterlife
Voices from the Island
Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here but Me
Bahia of all the Saints
Sandra Bernhard - Confession of a Pretty Lady
Louise Bourgeois
The Peter Sellers Story 1
The Peter Sellers Story: 2: Jack to Jacques
The Peter Sellers Story: 3: I Am Not a Funny Man
Punk and the Pistols
The Burger and the King
Stories My Country Told Me
Tony Bennett's New York
Caesar's Writers
There's No Such Thing as a Small Head of State
Dear Antonioni
Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Underground
Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Football is the Faith
Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: The Price of Glory
The Banana
Cigars - out of the Humidor
The Noel Coward Trilogy: The Boy Actor
The Noel Coward Trilogy: Captain Coward
The Noel Coward Trilogy: Sail Away
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow
The Brian Epstein Story: Tomorrow Never Knows
Cuba Night: the 40-Year Face-off
Cuba Night: Eisenhower, Kennedy and Khrushchev: How It All Began
Cuba Night: A Diamond in the Rough
Cuba Night: LBJ, Nixon and Brezhnev: the Middle Years
Cuba Night: The Simpsons: The Trouble with Trillions
Cuba Night: Reagan and Gorbachev: Castro, Cuba and the Fall of Communism
Cuba Night: Who Owns Che? The Importance of Not Being Ernesto
Cuba Night: The Clinton Years: Cuba Today and Tomorrow
Salman Rushdie and the Ground beneath His Feet
Looking for the Iron Curtain
Casanova
Blondes - Jayne Mansfield
Blondes - Diana Dors
Blondes - Anita Ekberg
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
The Veil
Wisconsin Death Trip
Clint Eastwood: Out of the West
Clint Eastwood: American Film-maker
James Ellroy's Feast of Death
And the Winner Is ...
Budd Schulberg - a Contender
The Source
Salgado - the Spectre of Hope
Stalin - the Red God
According to Beryl
In Our Care. The Keeper's Choice.
TURN ON THE LIGHTS
Icons Unearthed: Harry Potter
The Quest For Everest
Ice Patrol
LIGHT & MAGIC
Looking for the Hobbit
Cascadeurs
Frontline: China, The U.S. & The Rise of Xi Jinping
The Neistat Brothers
Pyros: Painting with Fire
Creating the World of Harry Potter
Behind the Opening Ceremony: The Director's Cut
La Course Destination Monde
How To with John Wilson
Inside Legacy Cinema
HK2NY: Hong Kong to New York - Backpacking Documentary Series
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Les secrets de Koh-Lanta
James Bond Confidentiel