Arena

1h 30m1 SeasonNRTMDb 7.2

EnglishReturning Series

1 · Theatre

2 · Art and Design

3 · Theatre

4 · Art and Design

5 · Theatre

6 · Art and Design

7 · Theatre

8 · Art and Design

9 · Theatre

10 · Art and Design

11 · Theatre

12 · Art and Design

13 · Theatre

14 · Art and Design

15 · Theatre

16 · Art and Design

17 · Theatre

18 · Art and Design

19 · Theatre

20 · Art and Design

21 · Theatre

22 · Art and Design

23 · Theatre

24 · Art and Design

25 · Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court

26 · Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?

27 · Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1

28 · Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2

29 · Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3

30 · Theatre: A Dream Come True

31 · Robert Altman

32 · Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer

33 · Frank Westmore

34 · Theatre

35 · Cinema: Eric Rohmer

36 · Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manha

37 · Cinema: Don Siegel

38 · Theatre: The Cultural Common Market

39 · Cinema

40 · Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell

Crew and Cast

Storyline

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.

#documentary filmmaking

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Info

Status: Returning Series
First aired: 1 October 1975
Last aired: 29 December 2024
Rating: NR
TMDB score: 7.2 / 10 (9 votes)

Production

Countries: United Kingdom
Networks: BBC Four, BBC Two

Episodes

Seasons: 1
Episodes: 692
Runtime: 1h 30m
Type: Documentary
In production: Yes

Languages

Original: English
Spoken: English