Arena is the BBC's multi award-winning arts strand. Founded in 1975, Arena continues to produce gold standard documentaries for the BBC and world service.
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ARENA - General Information
Series Premiere: October 01, 1975 Classification: Documentary Genre: Action | Thriller Network: BBC Two Airs: at 12:00 am Runtime: 0 Minutes
ARENA - Season 4 -- 2 Episodes
4x7 -- TBA 4x10 -- TBA
ARENA - Season 1975 -- 12 Episodes
1975x1 -- Oct 01, 1975 -- Theatre: Lilian Baylis & the Old Vic/David Hockney & the Rake's Progress 1975x2 -- Oct 08, 1975 -- Art and Design: How They Sold the 70s/Space Studios 1975x3 -- Oct 15, 1975 -- Theatre: Howard Barker/Kenneth Tynan/Birds of Paradise 1975x4 -- Oct 22, 1975 -- Art and Design: New Yorker/Serpentine Gallery/Jarrow 1975x5 -- Oct 29, 1975 -- Theatre: National Theatre 1975x6 -- Nov 05, 1975 -- Art and Design: Painting the End of the World/Landscape Photography/Sci-Fi Illustrations 1975x7 -- Nov 12, 1975 -- Theatre: News Round-up 1975x8 -- Nov 19, 1975 -- Art and Design: Shirley Conran/Barry Lategan/Edward Burne-Jones 1975x9 -- Nov 26, 1975 -- Theatre: News Round-up 1975x10 -- Dec 03, 1975 -- Art and Design: Landscape into Art/Charles Tomlinson 1975x11 -- Dec 10, 1975 -- Theatre: Mikhail Baryshnikov/Albert Finney 1975x12 -- Dec 17, 1975 -- Art and Design: Forgotten Heritage
ARENA - Season 1976 -- 31 Episodes
1976x1 -- Jan 07, 1976 -- Theatre: News Round-up 1976x2 -- Jan 14, 1976 -- Art and Design: News Round-up 1976x3 -- Jan 21, 1976 -- Theatre: News Round-up 1976x4 -- Jan 28, 1976 -- Art and Design: Paul Strand 1976x5 -- Feb 04, 1976 -- Theatre: Just Between Ourselves 1976x6 -- Feb 11, 1976 -- Art and Design: Keith Grant 1976x7 -- Feb 18, 1976 -- Theatre: What is Great Acting? 1976x8 -- Feb 25, 1976 -- Art and Design: Sculpture 1976x9 -- Mar 03, 1976 -- Theatre: Paris 1976x10 -- Mar 10, 1976 -- Art and Design: Video Artists 1976x11 -- Mar 17, 1976 -- Theatre: Goodbye to a Building? 1976x12 -- Mar 24, 1976 -- Art and Design: The New Realism Painting 1976x13 -- Mar 31, 1976 -- Theatre: Happy Birthday, Royal Court Theatre 1976x14 -- Apr 07, 1976 -- Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake? 1976x15 -- Aug 25, 1976 -- Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1 1976x16 -- Sep 01, 1976 -- Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2 1976x17 -- Sep 08, 1976 -- Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3 1976x18 -- Sep 15, 1976 -- Theatre: Manchester Royal Exchange 1976x19 -- Sep 22, 1976 -- Cinema: Robert Altman 1976x20 -- Sep 29, 1976 -- Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer 1976x21 -- Oct 06, 1976 -- Cinema: Frank Westmore 1976x22 -- Oct 13, 1976 -- Theatre: Peter Shaffer 1976x23 -- Oct 20, 1976 -- Cinema: Eric Rohmer 1976x24 -- Oct 27, 1976 -- Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manham/The Swish of the Curt 1976x25 -- Nov 03, 1976 -- Cinema: Don Siegel 1976x26 -- Nov 10, 1976 -- Theatre: The Cultural Common Market 1976x27 -- Nov 17, 1976 -- Cinema: British Cinema 1976x28 -- Nov 24, 1976 -- Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell 1976x29 -- Dec 01, 1976 -- Cinema: 'The Long Vacation of 36' 1976x30 -- Dec 08, 1976 -- Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle 1976x31 -- Dec 15, 1976 -- Cinema: Christmas Special
ARENA - Season 1977 -- 35 Episodes
1977x1 -- Jan 05, 1977 -- Cinema: Mel Brooks 1977x2 -- Jan 12, 1977 -- Art and Design: Sam Smith: Genuine England/Arena Review 1977x3 -- Jan 19, 1977 -- Cinema: The Front 1977x4 -- Jan 26, 1977 -- Theatre: Spokesong/At Home with Mole 1977x5 -- Feb 02, 1977 -- Cinema: News 1977x6 -- Feb 09, 1977 -- Art and Design: Ralph Steadman 1977x7 -- Feb 16, 1977 -- Cinema: Network 1977x8 -- Feb 23, 1977 -- Theatre: The Cultural Common Market: Peter Stein and the Schaubuhne 1977x9 -- Mar 02, 1977 -- Cinema: Z 1977x10 -- Mar 09, 1977 -- Art and Design: What Is a Hologram?/Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon 1977x11 -- Mar 16, 1977 -- Cinema: A Star is Born 1977x12 -- Mar 23, 1977 -- Theatre: A Night Out 1977x13 -- Mar 30, 1977 -- Cinema: Ealing Studios 1977x14 -- Apr 06, 1977 -- Art and Design: Family Pieces/Both Sides of the Line/The Divine and the Fantastic 1977x15 -- Apr 13, 1977 -- Cinema: Bernardo Bertolucci 1977x16 -- Apr 20, 1977 -- Theatre: The Prospect Before Us 1977x17 -- Apr 27, 1977 -- Cinema: Bernardo Bertolucci Part 2 1977x18 -- May 04, 1977 -- Art and Design: The Continuous Diary/Dine's Drawings 1977x19 -- May 11, 1977 -- Cinema: Erotic Films 1977x20 -- May 25, 1977 -- Cinema: Sophia Loren 1977x21 -- Sep 07, 1977 -- Edinburgh Festival 1977x22 -- Sep 14, 1977 -- Cinema: John Frankenheimer 1977x23 -- Sep 21, 1977 -- Cinema: New York, New York 1977x24 -- Sep 28, 1977 -- Art and Design: Achtung Minen! The work of Ian Hamilton Finlay 1977x25 -- Oct 05, 1977 -- Cinema: Annie Hall 1977x26 -- Oct 12, 1977 -- Theatre: Noel Coward in The Gorbals 1977x27 -- Oct 19, 1977 -- Cinema: Greece 1977x28 -- Oct 26, 1977 -- Art and Design: Richard Seifert 1977x29 -- Nov 02, 1977 -- Cinema: News Round-up 1977x30 -- Nov 09, 1977 -- Theatre: Hands Off the Classics 1977x31 -- Nov 16, 1977 -- Cinema: 21st London Film Festival 1977x32 -- Nov 23, 1977 -- Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag 1977x33 -- Nov 30, 1977 -- Cinema: 21st London Film Festival Part 2 1977x34 -- Dec 07, 1977 -- Theatre: Leonard Rossiter 1977x35 -- Dec 14, 1977 -- Cinema: The Deep
ARENA - Season 1978 -- 24 Episodes
1978x1 -- Jan 11, 1978 -- Cinema: The Force is with us? 1978x2 -- Jan 18, 1978 -- Art and Design: The Journey/Henry Moore Meets Leonardo 1978x3 -- Jan 25, 1978 -- Cinema: The Force is with us? Part 2 / Howard Hawks 1978x4 -- Feb 01, 1978 -- Theatre: The Cherry Orchard 1978x5 -- Feb 08, 1978 -- Cinema: Conrad on Screen 1978x6 -- Feb 15, 1978 -- Art and Design: Carrington/Robert Motherwell/Michael McKinnon 1978x7 -- Feb 22, 1978 -- Cinema: Claude Renoir 1978x8 -- Mar 01, 1978 -- Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ... 1978x9 -- Mar 08, 1978 -- Cinema: Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1978x10 -- Mar 15, 1978 -- Art and Design: Carl Andre/Madame Stravinsky 1978x11 -- Mar 22, 1978 -- Cinema: Dancing Years/Roseland 1978x12 -- Mar 29, 1978 -- Theatre: Taking Our Time 1978x13 -- Apr 05, 1978 -- Art and Design: Way Out West 1978x14 -- Apr 12, 1978 -- Theatre: Children of the Gods 1978x15 -- Apr 17, 1978 -- Television: When Is a Play Not a Play? 1978x16 -- May 03, 1978 -- Art and Design: George Melly 1978x17 -- May 10, 1978 -- Theatre: John Byrne/Arnold Wesker 1978x18 -- May 24, 1978 -- Rock: Tubes on Tour 1978x19 -- Oct 11, 1978 -- Cinema: François Truffaut/Bill Douglas 1978x20 -- Oct 18, 1978 -- Theatre: Vanessa Redgrave 1978x21 -- Oct 25, 1978 -- Cinema: Hooray for Hollywood? 1978x22 -- Nov 22, 1978 -- Cinema: The Thirty-Nine Steps 1978x23 -- Dec 06, 1978 -- Cinema: A Report from Bombay 1978x24 -- Dec 20, 1978 -- Cinema: Robert Altman
ARENA - Season 1979 -- 23 Episodes
1979x1 -- Jan 08, 1979 -- The Museum of Drawers 1979x2 -- Jan 15, 1979 -- On Photography 1979x3 -- Jan 17, 1979 -- Cinema: News Round-up 1979x4 -- Jan 22, 1979 -- Who is Poly Styrene? 1979x5 -- Jan 29, 1979 -- Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes 1979x6 -- Jan 31, 1979 -- Cinema: John Carpenter and star Donald Pleasence 1979x7 -- Feb 05, 1979 -- Maler's Requiem 1979x8 -- Feb 12, 1979 -- Piaf/What Did You Do in ' The Warp ' Daddy? 1979x9 -- Feb 14, 1979 -- Cinema: John Barry 1979x10 -- Feb 26, 1979 -- Other Writers Will Tell You Different.... 1979x11 -- Feb 28, 1979 -- Cinema: Isabelle Huppert 1979x12 -- Mar 05, 1979 -- Arena Presents Ubu 1979x13 -- Mar 12, 1979 -- My Way 1979x14 -- Mar 14, 1979 -- Cinema: Don Siegel 1979x15 -- Mar 19, 1979 -- La Dame aux Gladiolas: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Edna Everage 1979x16 -- Mar 26, 1979 -- 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On 1979x17 -- Mar 28, 1979 -- Cinema: Kung Fu, Run Run Shaw and Bruce Lee 1979x18 -- Apr 02, 1979 -- Tell Us the Truth 1979x19 -- Apr 09, 1979 -- The King and I 1979x20 -- Apr 15, 1979 -- Their Lips are Sealed 1979x21 -- May 21, 1979 -- Rock: The Tubes on Tour 1979x22 -- Jun 14, 1979 -- Pictures of the Mind 1979x23 -- Sep 29, 1979 -- Six Days in September
ARENA - Season 1980 -- 17 Episodes
1980x1 -- Jan 16, 1980 -- Building for Change 1980x2 -- Jan 23, 1980 -- Lene Lovich - Sleeping Beauty 1980x3 -- Jan 30, 1980 -- Mentioned in Dispatches 1980x4 -- Feb 06, 1980 -- Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs Pupko's Beard 1980x5 -- Feb 13, 1980 -- Peggy Taub, the Learned Goat and Other People ... 1980x6 -- Feb 27, 1980 -- Bring Me Back a Song 1980x7 -- Mar 03, 1980 -- ' I talk about me - I am Africa' 1980x8 -- Mar 12, 1980 -- Rudies Come Back or The Rise and Rise of 2-Tone 1980x9 -- Mar 19, 1980 -- Working at It 1980x10 -- Mar 26, 1980 -- Left: Andrea Dunbar Right: Victoria Wood 1980x11 -- Apr 02, 1980 -- Climb Every Mountain or Nothing Succeeds Like Failure 1980x12 -- Apr 09, 1980 -- Arena presents Double Vision 1980x13 -- Apr 16, 1980 -- Dedicated Followers of Fashion 1980x14 -- May 21, 1980 -- Luck and Flaw 1980x15 -- May 28, 1980 -- In Their Own Image 1980x16 -- Oct 04, 1980 -- Making The Shining 1980x17 -- Dec 22, 1980 -- Dire Straits
ARENA - Season 1981 -- 26 Episodes
1981x1 -- Jan 03, 1981 -- Chelsea Hotel 1981x2 -- Jan 10, 1981 -- Hazell Meets His Makers 1981x3 -- Jan 17, 1981 -- Getting Away from Sidney 1981x4 -- Jan 24, 1981 -- Private Worlds 1981x5 -- Jan 31, 1981 -- Today Carshalton Beeches... Tomorrow Croydon 1981x6 -- Feb 21, 1981 -- Edward Hopper 1981x7 -- Feb 28, 1981 -- Stages 1981x8 -- Mar 07, 1981 -- The Smallest Theatre... 1981x9 -- Mar 14, 1981 -- Huston's Hobby 1981x10 -- Mar 21, 1981 -- A Walk with Amos Oz 1981x11 -- Mar 28, 1981 -- God's Fifth Columinist 1981x12 -- Apr 04, 1981 -- Did You Miss Me? 1981x13 -- Apr 15, 1981 -- The Return of Lupino Lane 1981x14 -- Apr 18, 1981 -- The Comic Strip Hero 1981x15 -- May 02, 1981 -- Arena on Clair 1981x16 -- May 09, 1981 -- Somewhere Over the Rainbow... 1981x17 -- May 16, 1981 -- If the Music Had to Stop... 1981x18 -- Aug 16, 1981 -- Curtains? 1981x19 -- Sep 06, 1981 -- The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda 1981x20 -- Oct 02, 1981 -- "I Thought I Was Taller" - A Short History of Mel Brooks 1981x21 -- Nov 03, 1981 -- Have You Seen the Mona Lisa? 1981x22 -- Nov 10, 1981 -- Let Them Know We're Here 1981x23 -- Nov 17, 1981 -- A Pretty British Affair 1981x24 -- Nov 24, 1981 -- The Art of Radio Times and The Eye of the "Eye" 1981x25 -- Dec 08, 1981 -- A Tall Story - How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India 1981x26 -- Dec 15, 1981 -- Brixton to Barbados
ARENA - Season 1982 -- 22 Episodes
1982x1 -- Jan 19, 1982 -- The Private Life of the Ford Cortina 1982x2 -- Jan 28, 1982 -- What Makes Rabbit Run? 1982x3 -- Jan 02, 1982 -- Here They Kill People for It 1982x4 -- Feb 09, 1982 -- Listen to Britain 1982x5 -- Feb 09, 1982 -- True to Life? 1982x6 -- Feb 23, 1982 -- Desert Island Discs 1982x7 -- Mar 09, 1982 -- Housing Problems 1982x8 -- May 18, 1982 -- The Orson Welles Story: Part One 1982x9 -- May 21, 1982 -- The Orson Welles Story: Part Two 1982x10 -- Sep 04, 1982 -- Mike Leigh Making Plays 1982x11 -- Nov 09, 1982 -- A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton 1982x12 -- Nov 16, 1982 -- A Play for Bridport 1982x13 -- Nov 23, 1982 -- Upon Westminster Bridge 1982x14 -- Nov 30, 1982 -- Eddie Cochran: Three Steps to Heaven 1982x15 -- Dec 11, 1982 -- Angus McBean 1982x16 -- Dec 11, 1982 -- Samuel Beckett Season: Happy Days 1982x17 -- Dec 13, 1982 -- Samuel Beckett Season: Eh Joe 1982x18 -- Dec 14, 1982 -- Samuel Beckett Season: Rockaby 1982x19 -- Dec 15, 1982 -- Samuel Beckett Season: Not I 1982x20 -- Dec 16, 1982 -- Samuel Beckett Season: Quad 1982x21 -- Dec 17, 1982 -- Samuel Beckett Season: Last Tape 1982x22 -- Dec 28, 1982 -- Guernica - The Long Exile
ARENA - Season 1983 -- 19 Episodes
1983x1 -- Jan 11, 1983 -- Last Waltz In Vienna 1983x2 -- Jan 18, 1983 -- Classically Cuban: Alicia Alonso and the Cuban National Ballet 1983x3 -- Feb 01, 1983 -- Hair: By Their Hair Shall Ye Know Them... 1983x4 -- Feb 08, 1983 -- Boulez Now 1983x5 -- Feb 15, 1983 -- Jazz Juke Box I 1983x6 -- Feb 22, 1983 -- Burroughs 1983x7 -- Mar 01, 1983 -- The Catherine Wheel 1983x8 -- Mar 08, 1983 -- Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes 1983x9 -- May 09, 1983 -- It's All True 1983x10 -- Aug 19, 1983 -- The Life and Times of Don Luis Bunuel 1983x11 -- Oct 26, 1983 -- Borges and I 1983x12 -- Nov 02, 1983 -- Bette Davis - The Benevolent Volcano 1983x13 -- Nov 09, 1983 -- Anthony Powell - An Invitation to the Dance 1983x14 -- Nov 12, 1983 -- The Ghost Writer 1983x15 -- Nov 23, 1983 -- Jazz Juke-Box II 1983x16 -- Dec 14, 1983 -- The GPO Story 1983x17 -- Dec 23, 1983 -- The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert 1983x18 -- Dec 29, 1983 -- George Orwell: Part 1 - Such, Such Were the Joys 1983x19 -- Dec 30, 1983 -- George Orwell: Part 2 - Road to Wigan Pier
ARENA - Season 1984 -- 27 Episodes
1984x1 -- Jan 02, 1984 -- George Orwell Part 3: Homage to Catalonia 1984x2 -- Jan 03, 1984 -- George Orwell Part 4: The Lion and the Unicorn 1984x3 -- Jan 04, 1984 -- George Orwell Part 5: Nineteen Eighty-four 1984x4 -- Feb 04, 1984 -- Say Amen Someone 1984x5 -- Feb 17, 1984 -- Dame Edna Everage - A Birthday Tribute 1984x6 -- Feb 21, 1984 -- Four Rooms 1984x7 -- Feb 28, 1984 -- The Theatre of Dario Fo 1984x8 -- Mar 03, 1984 -- Sunset People 1984x9 -- Mar 06, 1984 -- The Caravaggio Conspiracy 1984x10 -- Mar 13, 1984 -- Between Dreaming and Waking 1984x11 -- Mar 20, 1984 -- Ken Russell 's Elgar 1984x12 -- Mar 27, 1984 -- Jerry Lee Lewis: Live in Bristol 1984 1984x13 -- Apr 03, 1984 -- True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist 1984x14 -- May 06, 1984 -- My Dinner with Louis 1984x15 -- May 19, 1984 -- Milan Kundera - Laughter and Forgetting 1984x16 -- Jul 07, 1984 -- A Tribute to Joseph Losey 1984x17 -- Jul 12, 1984 -- Beat This! A Hip Hop History 1984x18 -- Nov 02, 1984 -- The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience 1984x19 -- Nov 09, 1984 -- Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day 1984x20 -- Nov 10, 1984 -- Eubie Blake 1984x21 -- Nov 18, 1984 -- Francis Bacon 1984x22 -- Nov 23, 1984 -- We Don't Like Your House Either! 1984x23 -- Nov 30, 1984 -- Teacher Don't Teach Me: Nonsense - The Music of Fela Kuti 1984x24 -- Dec 07, 1984 -- After the Rehearsal 1984x25 -- Dec 21, 1984 -- What's Cuba Playing At? 1984x26 -- Dec 22, 1984 -- Music of the other Americas 1984x27 -- Dec 26, 1984 -- Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden
ARENA - Season 1985 -- 18 Episodes
1985x1 -- Apr 29, 1985 -- Watch Me Move.... 1985x2 -- May 06, 1985 -- Hugh Masekela - The African Ambassador 1985x3 -- Jul 25, 1985 -- The Theatre of Robert Wilson 1985x4 -- Jul 27, 1985 -- Sonny Boy Williamson Sings 1985x5 -- Jul 27, 1985 -- B.B. King Speaks 1985x6 -- Jul 27, 1985 -- Chicago Blues 1985x7 -- Jul 28, 1985 -- Blind John Davis 1985x8 -- Jul 28, 1985 -- Blues Medley 1985x9 -- Jul 28, 1985 -- Big Bill Blues 1985x10 -- Aug 01, 1985 -- Robert Wilson on the Civil Warpath 1985x11 -- Sep 12, 1985 -- The Real Buddy Holly Story 1985x12 -- Nov 12, 1985 -- Saint Genet 1985x13 -- Nov 19, 1985 -- The Accordion Strikes Back 1985x14 -- Nov 26, 1985 -- The Cinema of Francesco Rosi 1985x15 -- Dec 03, 1985 -- The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima 1985x16 -- Dec 07, 1985 -- Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day 1985x17 -- Dec 10, 1985 -- The Apollo Story: Part 1 1985x18 -- Dec 17, 1985 -- The Apollo Story: Part 2
ARENA - Season 1986 -- 21 Episodes
1986x1 -- Jan 08, 1986 -- Arena Presents Tosca's Kiss 1986x2 -- Jan 11, 1986 -- The New Babylon 1986x3 -- Jan 18, 1986 -- Tango Mio 1986x4 -- Jan 21, 1986 -- Cinderella 1986x5 -- Jan 28, 1986 -- The Journey Man 1986x6 -- Feb 04, 1986 -- Go-Go in Washington DC 1986x7 -- Feb 11, 1986 -- Marguerite Yourcenar 1986x8 -- Mar 04, 1986 -- Kurosawa 1986x9 -- Jun 15, 1986 -- Caribbean Nights - Bob Marley 1986x10 -- Jun 16, 1986 -- Caribbean Nights - C.L.R. James's First Cricket XI 1986x11 -- Jun 16, 1986 -- Caribbean Nights - Danzon 1986x12 -- Jun 17, 1986 -- Caribbean Nights - Rasta and the Ball 1986x13 -- Jun 18, 1986 -- Caribbean Nights - Arturo Sandoval 1986x14 -- Jun 19, 1986 -- Caribbean Nights - Kapo 1986x15 -- Sep 07, 1986 -- Henry Moore 1986x16 -- Oct 01, 1986 -- Jerry Lee Lewis 1986x17 -- Nov 21, 1986 -- Salvador Dali 1986x18 -- Nov 22, 1986 -- The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel 1986x19 -- Nov 28, 1986 -- The Spirit of Lorca Federico Garcia 1986x20 -- Dec 12, 1986 -- Scarfe on Scarfe 1986x21 -- Dec 19, 1986 -- Night Moves
ARENA - Season 1987 -- 20 Episodes
1987x1 -- Jan 16, 1987 -- Stand by Your Dream (The Tammy Wynette Story) 1987x2 -- Jan 23, 1987 -- Night and Day 1987x3 -- Jan 30, 1987 -- Dennis Potter 1987x4 -- Feb 06, 1987 -- Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas 1987x5 -- Feb 13, 1987 -- Confessions of Robert Crumb 1987x6 -- Feb 20, 1987 -- Ruth, Roses and Revolver 1987x7 -- Feb 27, 1987 -- A Brother with Perfect Timing 1987x8 -- Mar 13, 1987 -- Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinema 1987x9 -- Mar 20, 1987 -- Putting Ourselves in the Picture 1987x10 -- Mar 27, 1987 -- How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? 1987x11 -- Apr 03, 1987 -- Bayan Ko Pilipinas 1987x12 -- Apr 10, 1987 -- Talk is Cheap 1987x13 -- Apr 11, 1987 -- Night Moves 1987x14 -- Apr 18, 1987 -- The Waugh Trilogy Part 1: Bright Young Thing 1987x15 -- Apr 19, 1987 -- The Waugh Trilogy Part 2: Mayfair and the Jungle 1987x16 -- Apr 20, 1987 -- The Waugh Trilogy Part 3: An Englishman's Home 1987x17 -- Jun 06, 1987 -- Joseph Beuys 1987x18 -- Nov 20, 1987 -- Revolutionary with a Paintbox 1987x19 -- Nov 27, 1987 -- Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell 1987x20 -- Dec 04, 1987 -- Invisible Ink
ARENA - Season 1988 -- 15 Episodes
1988x1 -- Jan 08, 1988 -- Woody Guthrie 1988x2 -- Jan 15, 1988 -- The Dandy-Beano Story 1988x3 -- Jan 22, 1988 -- Broadway - The Great White Way 1988x4 -- Jan 29, 1988 -- Ryszard Kapuscinski: Your Man Who is There 1988x5 -- Feb 05, 1988 -- The Emperor 1988x6 -- Feb 12, 1988 -- My Name Is Celia Cruz 1988x7 -- Mar 04, 1988 -- An Andalucian Journey 1988x8 -- Mar 18, 1988 -- Robert Mapplethorpe 1988x9 -- Mar 25, 1988 -- The English Thoroughbred 1988x10 -- Apr 01, 1988 -- Byrne About Byrne 1988x11 -- Nov 25, 1988 -- Ten Green Bottles 1988x12 -- Dec 02, 1988 -- Clint Eastwood 1988x13 -- Dec 09, 1988 -- Moving Across the World on Horses 1988x14 -- Dec 16, 1988 -- History Boys on the Rampage 1988x15 -- Dec 23, 1988 -- The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
ARENA - Season 1989 -- 14 Episodes
1989x1 -- Jan 06, 1989 -- Tales of Barcelona 1989x2 -- Jan 13, 1989 -- Blackpool 1989x3 -- Jan 27, 1989 -- The Tip of the Iceberg 1989x4 -- Feb 03, 1989 -- Laurens Van Der Post and Albert Sample 1989x5 -- Feb 10, 1989 -- New York - The Secret African City 1989x6 -- Feb 17, 1989 -- Eugene Ionesco: The Joke's on Us 1989x7 -- Feb 24, 1989 -- John Cassavetes 1989x8 -- Mar 03, 1989 -- Power in the Blood 1989x9 -- Mar 17, 1989 -- The Old Brass Plate Rattle Test - The Englishman and His Jukebox 1989x10 -- Mar 19, 1989 -- Juke Box Jury 1989x11 -- Mar 31, 1989 -- Lubetkin Thoughts of a Twentieth Century Anarchist 1989x12 -- Apr 07, 1989 -- Heavy Metal 1989x13 -- Apr 21, 1989 -- The Other Graham Greene 1989x14 -- Dec 27, 1989 -- 25 X 5 The Continuing Adventures of The Rolling Stones
ARENA - Season 1990 -- 9 Episodes
1990x1 -- Jan 19, 1990 -- Numbers 1990x2 -- Feb 02, 1990 -- Jerry Lee Lewis 1990x3 -- Feb 09, 1990 -- Roberto Rossellini 1990x4 -- Feb 23, 1990 -- Next Time Dear God Please Choose Someone Else 1990x5 -- Mar 02, 1990 -- Salif Keita 1990x6 -- Apr 06, 1990 -- Paris Is Burning 1990x7 -- Apr 15, 1990 -- Jana Bokova's Havana 1990x8 -- Jun 01, 1990 -- Oooh er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story 1990x9 -- Sep 20, 1990 -- Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
ARENA - Season 1991 -- 16 Episodes
1991x1 -- Jan 18, 1991 -- Miller Meets Mandela 1991x2 -- Jan 25, 1991 -- Derek Jarman - A Portrait 1991x3 -- Feb 01, 1991 -- Anselm Kiefer: Operation Sealion 1991x4 -- Feb 08, 1991 -- The Very Strange Story of... The Legendary Joe Meek 1991x5 -- Feb 12, 1991 -- Mardi Gras 1991x6 -- Mar 01, 1991 -- Caroline 199 - A Pirate's Tale 1991x7 -- Mar 08, 1991 -- Staring at the Ceiling 1991x8 -- Mar 15, 1991 -- Three Irish Writers 1991x9 -- Mar 16, 1991 -- One Irish Rover 1991x10 -- Mar 17, 1991 -- The Importance of Being Oscar 1991x11 -- Mar 22, 1991 -- The Other Roci 1991x12 -- Mar 29, 1991 -- Lifepulse 1991x13 -- Apr 05, 1991 -- Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon 1991x14 -- Apr 12, 1991 -- Elmore Leonard's Criminal Records 1991x15 -- Apr 19, 1991 -- The Human Face 1991x16 -- Oct 13, 1991 -- The Complete Citizen Kane
ARENA - Season 1992 -- 3 Episodes
1992x1 -- Jan 31, 1992 -- Masters of the Canvas 1992x2 -- Mar 27, 1992 -- Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up 1992x3 -- Dec 26, 1992 -- Linda McCartney - Behind the Lens
ARENA - Season 1993 -- 14 Episodes
1993x1 -- Jan 29, 1993 -- A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie 1993x2 -- Feb 12, 1993 -- Edward Said: The Idea of Empire 1993x3 -- Mar 19, 1993 -- Philip Roth 1993x4 -- May 01, 1993 -- Tales of Rock 'n' Roll: Walk on the Wild Side 1993x5 -- Dec 18, 1993 -- The Time Signal 1993x6 -- Feb 26, 1993 -- Derek Walcott 1993x7 -- Mar 12, 1993 -- Zhang Yimou - A Story of China 1993x9 -- Mar 26, 1993 -- Only the Names Have Been Changed.... 1993x10 -- Apr 02, 1993 -- Weegee 1993x11 -- Apr 02, 1993 -- Duchamp's Fountain 1993x12 -- Apr 17, 1993 -- Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue 1993x13 -- Apr 18, 1993 -- Not a Bad Girl 1993x14 -- Apr 24, 1993 -- Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Heartbreak Hotel 1993x16 -- May 08, 1993 -- Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Highway 61 Revisited
ARENA - Season 1994 -- 13 Episodes
1994x1 -- Jan 29, 1994 -- In Search of Oz 1994x2 -- Feb 05, 1994 -- Who Is Vladimir Pozner? 1994x3 -- Feb 12, 1994 -- The Dark Side of Black 1994x4 -- Feb 22, 1994 -- The Two Voyages of Donald Crowhurst 1994x5 -- Mar 05, 1994 -- Glitterbug - Derek Jarman 1994x6 -- Mar 12, 1994 -- Theatre without Actors 1994x7 -- Apr 09, 1994 -- Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife 1994x8 -- Apr 23, 1994 -- Voices from the Island 1994x9 -- Apr 24, 1994 -- Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here but Me 1994x10 -- May 07, 1994 -- Bahia of All the Saints 1994x11 -- May 20, 1994 -- Sandra Bernhard - Confession of a Pretty Lady 1994x12 -- May 31, 1994 -- The Ring - A South London Tale 1994x13 -- Aug 06, 1994 -- Louise Bourgeois
ARENA - Season 1995 -- 4 Episodes
1995x1 -- Feb 11, 1995 -- The Peter Sellers Story Part 1 - From Southsea to Shepperton 1995x2 -- Feb 18, 1995 -- The Peter Sellers Story Part 2 - From Jack to Jacques 1995x3 -- Feb 25, 1995 -- The Peter Sellers Story Part 3 - I am Not a Funny Man 1995x4 -- Aug 20, 1995 -- Punk and the Pistols
ARENA - Season 1996 -- 3 Episodes
1996x1 -- May 09, 1996 -- The Burger & the King: The Life & Cuisine of Elvis Presley 1996x2 -- Dec 22, 1996 -- Tony Bennett 's New York 1996x3 -- Dec 24, 1996 -- Caesar's Writers
ARENA - Season 1997 -- 6 Episodes
1997x1 -- Dec 25, 1997 -- Cigars - Out of the Humidor 1997x16 -- Jan 02, 1997 -- There 's No Such Thing as a Small Head of State 1997x17 -- Mar 28, 1997 -- Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Underground 1997x18 -- Mar 29, 1997 -- Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Football is the Faith 1997x19 -- Mar 30, 1997 -- Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: The Price of Glory 1997x20 -- Dec 24, 1997 -- The Banana
ARENA - Season 1998 -- 2 Episodes
1998x1 -- Dec 25, 1998 -- The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow 1998x2 -- Dec 26, 1998 -- The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow (Part 2)
ARENA - Season 1999 -- 7 Episodes
1999x1 -- Jan 02, 1999 -- The 40-Year Face-off 1999x2 -- Apr 22, 1999 -- Salman Rushdie and the Ground beneath His Feet 1999x3 -- Nov 07, 1999 -- Looking for the Iron Curtain 1999x4 -- Dec 20, 1999 -- Casanova 1999x5 -- Dec 24, 1999 -- Blondes - Jayne Mansfield 1999x6 -- Dec 26, 1999 -- Blondes - Diana Dors 1999x7 -- Dec 27, 1999 -- Blondes - Anita Ekberg
ARENA - Season 2000 -- 3 Episodes
2000x1 -- Jul 02, 2000 -- Wisconsin Death Trip 2000x2 -- Jan 02, 2000 -- The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money 2000x3 -- May 20, 2000 -- The Veil
ARENA - Season 2001 -- 10 Episodes
2001x1 -- May 06, 2001 -- James Ellroy's Feast of Death 2001x2 -- May 13, 2001 -- And the Winner is... 2001x3 -- May 19, 2001 -- Budd Schulberg - a Contender 2001x4 -- May 28, 2001 -- The Source 2001x5 -- May 30, 2001 -- Salgado - the Spectre of Hope 2001x6 -- May 31, 2001 -- Stalin - the Red God 2001x7 -- Oct 06, 2001 -- According to Beryl 2001x8 -- Dec 25, 2001 -- Sykes and a Day 2001x9 -- Dec 26, 2001 -- The Private Dirk Bogarde 2001x10 -- Dec 25, 2001 -- Max Bygraves: I Wanna Tell You a Story
ARENA - Season 2002 -- 6 Episodes
2002x1 -- Oct 26, 2002 -- Harold Pinter - Part One: The Room 2002x2 -- Oct 26, 2002 -- Harold Pinter - Part Two: Celebration 2002x3 -- Oct 26, 2002 -- One for the Road 2002x4 -- Nov 05, 2002 -- The Room 2002x5 -- Dec 26, 2002 -- Radio Ha! Meet Dead Ringers 2002x6 -- Dec 26, 2002 -- Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute
ARENA - Season 2003 -- 6 Episodes
2003x1 -- Nov 22, 2003 -- Dylan Thomas - From Grave to Cradle 2003x2 -- Dec 19, 2003 -- Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made 2003x3 -- Dec 29, 2003 -- Alec Guinness: A Secret Man 2003x5 -- Sep 20, 2003 -- Imagine Imagine 2003x6 -- Aug 24, 2003 -- The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough - Part 1 2003x7 -- Aug 25, 2003 -- The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough - Part 2
ARENA - Season 2004 -- 5 Episodes
2004x1 -- May 29, 2004 -- Pavarotti: The Last Tenor 2004x2 -- Jul 09, 2004 -- Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus 2004x3 -- Oct 02, 2004 -- Shadowing the Third Man 2004x4 -- Dec 09, 2004 -- Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? 2004x5 -- Dec 25, 2004 -- Painting the Clouds: A Portrait of Dennis Potter
ARENA - Season 2005 -- 9 Episodes
2005x1 -- Feb 05, 2005 -- Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues 2005x2 -- Feb 12, 2005 -- Calling Hedy Lamarr 2005x3 -- Mar 19, 2005 -- Francis Bacon's Arena 2005x4 -- Sep 03, 2005 -- Arena at 30 2005x5 -- Sep 26, 2005 -- No Direction Home - Bob Dylan Part 1 2005x6 -- Sep 27, 2005 -- No Direction Home - Bob Dylan Part 2 2005x7 -- Nov 08, 2005 -- The Princess and Panorama 2005x8 -- Dec 10, 2005 -- Routemasters! The Double Decker Bus Conductors 2005x9 -- Dec 25, 2005 -- Lunch with Galton and Simpson
ARENA - Season 2006 -- 3 Episodes
2006x1 -- Sep 11, 2006 -- Chi-Chi the Panda 2006x2 -- Nov 12, 2006 -- Pete Doherty 2006x3 -- Dec 17, 2006 -- Saints
ARENA - Season 2007 -- 16 Episodes
2007x1 -- Mar 18, 2007 -- The Underground 2007x2 -- Jun 03, 2007 -- Bob Marley Exodus '77 2007x3 -- Jul 13, 2007 -- Encountering Bergman 2007x4 -- Jul 13, 2007 -- Bergman and Faro Island: Arena 2007x5 -- Jul 14, 2007 -- Bergman and the Cinema: Arena 2007x6 -- Jul 25, 2007 -- Art and Design: The Journey 2007x7 -- Sep 02, 2007 -- Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema 2007x8 -- Sep 30, 2007 -- The Comic Strip Hero 2007x9 -- Oct 01, 2007 -- Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute 2007x10 -- Oct 04, 2007 -- The Archers 2007x11 -- Oct 06, 2007 -- Into the Limelight - Tribute Bands 2007x12 -- Oct 06, 2007 -- Tribute Bands - Live 2007x13 -- Oct 14, 2007 -- Dylan's Folk - the Pure, the Bad and the Holy 2007x14 -- Oct 14, 2007 -- The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival 2007x15 -- Dec 24, 2007 -- Ken Dodd's Happiness 2007x16 -- Dec 31, 2007 -- Shadowing the Third Man
ARENA - Season 2008 -- 6 Episodes
2008x1 -- Apr 10, 2008 -- The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul 2008x2 -- Jul 26, 2008 -- Cab Driver 2008x3 -- Sep 20, 2008 -- The Hunt for Moby Dick 2008x4 -- Sep 21, 2008 -- The Whale in the Museum 2008x5 -- Oct 25, 2008 -- The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector 2008x6 -- Dec 24, 2008 -- Paul Scofield
ARENA - Season 2009 -- 3 Episodes
2009x1 -- Feb 14, 2009 -- Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends 2009x2 -- Apr 03, 2009 -- Cool 2009x3 -- Jun 06, 2009 -- T.S. Eliot
ARENA - Season 2010 -- 6 Episodes
2010x1 -- Jan 22, 2010 -- Brian Eno - Another Green World 2010x2 -- Jan 24, 2010 -- Harold Pinter - A Celebration 2010x3 -- Apr 02, 2010 -- Frank Sinatra - The Voice of the Century 2010x4 -- Apr 04, 2010 -- Johnny Mercer - The Dream's on Me 2010x5 -- Dec 03, 2010 -- Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way 2010x6 -- Dec 29, 2010 -- Rolf Harris Paints His Dream
ARENA - Season 2011 -- 3 Episodes
2011x1 -- Apr 25, 2011 -- Produced by George Martin 2011x2 -- Nov 12, 2011 -- George Harrison: Living in the Material World - Part 1 2011x3 -- Nov 13, 2011 -- George Harrison: Living in the Material World - Part 2
ARENA - Season 2012 -- 10 Episodes
2012x1 -- Jan 10, 2012 -- Dickens on Film 2012x2 -- Feb 17, 2012 -- Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes 2012x3 -- Feb 17, 2012 -- Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued! 2012x4 -- Mar 17, 2012 -- The Dreams of William Golding 2012x5 -- Mar 31, 2012 -- Jonathan Miller 2012x6 -- Jul 23, 2012 -- Amy Winehouse - The Day She Came to Dingle 2012x7 -- Oct 06, 2012 -- The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour - 1. Magical Mystery Tour Revisited 2012x8 -- Oct 06, 2012 -- The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour - 2. 'The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour 2012x9 -- Dec 22, 2012 -- Screen Goddesses 2012x10 -- Dec 25, 2012 -- Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel
ARENA - Season 2013 -- 3 Episodes
2013x1 -- Apr 21, 2013 -- aka Norman Parkinson 2013x2 -- Oct 24, 2013 -- The National Theatre Part One: The Dream 2013x3 -- Oct 31, 2013 -- The National Theatre Part Two: War and Peace
ARENA - Season 2014 -- 3 Episodes
2014x1 -- Mar 20, 2014 -- Whatever Happened to Spitting Image? 2014x2 -- Apr 02, 2014 -- The National Theatre - Learning Zone 2014x3 -- Jun 29, 2014 -- The 50 Year Argument - The New York Review of Books
ARENA - Season 2015 -- 2 Episodes
2015x1 -- Jun 28, 2015 -- Nicolas Roeg - It's About Time 2015x2 -- Nov 22, 2015 -- Night and Day
ARENA - Season 2016 -- 4 Episodes
2016x1 -- Mar 18, 2016 -- Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl 2016x2 -- Apr 24, 2016 -- All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film 2016x3 -- Jul 24, 2016 -- 1966 - 50 Years Ago Today 2016x4 -- Oct 23, 2016 -- The Roundhouse - The People's Palace
ARENA - Season 2017 -- 6 Episodes
2017x1 -- Feb 10, 2017 -- Alone with Chrissie Hynde 2017x2 -- May 21, 2017 -- American Epic Part 1: The Big Bang 2017x3 -- May 28, 2017 -- American Epic Part 2: Blood and Soil 2017x4 -- May 29, 2017 -- Kirsty Young: 75 Years of Desert Island Discs 2017x5 -- Jun 04, 2017 -- American Epic Part 3: Out of the Many, the One 2017x6 -- Jun 09, 2017 -- American Epic Part 4: The Sessions
ARENA - Season 2018 -- 4 Episodes
2018x1 -- Feb 04, 2018 -- Stanley and His Daughters 2018x2 -- Mar 30, 2018 -- Bob Dylan - Trouble No More 2018x3 -- Jun 02, 2018 -- Nothing Like a Dame 2018x4 -- Nov 04, 2018 -- Make Me Up!
ARENA - Season 2019 -- 8 Episodes
2019x1 -- Apr 06, 2019 -- Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything 2019x2 -- Jul 07, 2019 -- That Summer 2019x3 -- Jul 28, 2019 -- Cindy Sherman #untitled 2019x4 -- Sep 01, 2019 -- Kusama: Infinity 2019x5 -- Sep 22, 2019 -- Bergman: A Year in the Life 2019x7 -- Nov 04, 2019 -- A British Guide to the End of the World 2019x8 -- Nov 10, 2019 -- Everything Is Connected - George Eliot's Life 2019x9 -- Dec 30, 2019 -- Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens
ARENA - Season 2020 -- 5 Episodes
2020x1 -- Mar 07, 2020 -- Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall 2020x2 -- May 18, 2020 -- The Changin' Times of Ike White 2020x3 -- Jun 20, 2020 -- I Am Not Your Negro 2020x4 -- Jul 04, 2020 -- Keith Haring: Street Art Boy 2020x5 -- Nov 21, 2020 -- Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat
ARENA - Season 2021 -- 8 Episodes
2021x1 -- Mar 21, 2021 -- My Father and Me 2021x2 -- May 16, 2021 -- Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes 2021x3 -- May 22, 2021 -- African Apocalypse 2021x4 -- May 29, 2021 -- Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture 2021x5 -- Oct 10, 2021 -- Dylan Thomas: From Grave to Cradle 2021x6 -- Oct 31, 2021 -- Painted with My Hair 2021x7 -- Nov 21, 2021 -- B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From? 2021x8 -- Nov 28, 2021 -- The Vasulka Effect
ARENA - Season 2022 -- 5 Episodes
2022x1 -- Feb 13, 2022 -- The Most Beautiful Boy in the World 2022x2 -- Jul 25, 2022 -- River 2022x3 -- Sep 07, 2022 -- James Joyce's Ulysses 2022x4 -- Oct 22, 2022 -- TS Eliot: Into the Waste Land 2022x5 -- Nov 27, 2022 -- Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters
ARENA - Season 2023 -- 4 Episodes
2023x1 -- Apr 22, 2023 -- Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll 2023x2 -- Apr 26, 2023 -- The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld 2023x3 -- May 15, 2023 -- The Stones and Brian Jones 2023x4 -- Jun 04, 2023 -- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
