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Arena (1975)
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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Episode 1 - Cinema: Francois Truffaut
Release Date: 1978-10-11 -
Episode 2 - Cinema: Vanessa Redgrave
Release Date: 1978-10-18 -
Episode 3 - Cinema: Hooray for Hollywood?
Release Date: 1978-10-25 -
Episode 4 - Cinema: The Thirty-nine Steps and this year's London Film Festival
Release Date: 1978-11-22 -
Episode 5 - Cinema: A report from Bombay
Release Date: 1978-12-06 -
Episode 6 - Cinema: Robert Altman
Release Date: 1978-12-20 -
Episode 7 - The Museum of Drawers
Release Date: 1979-01-08 -
Episode 8 - On Photography
Release Date: 1979-01-15 -
Episode 9 - Cinema
Release Date: 1979-01-15 -
Episode 10 - Who Is Poly Styrene?
Release Date: 1979-01-20 -
Episode 11 - Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes
Release Date: 1979-01-29 -
Episode 12 - Cinema: John Carpenter and star Donald Pleasence on Location in Los Angeles plus Blue
Release Date: 1979-01-31 -
Episode 13 - Maler's Requiem
Release Date: 1979-02-05 -
Episode 14 - Cinema: Piaf
Release Date: 1979-02-12 -
Episode 15 - Cinema: John Barry
Release Date: 1979-02-14 -
Episode 16 - Other Writers Will Tell You Different....
Release Date: 1979-02-26 -
Episode 17 - Cinema: Isabelle Huppert
Release Date: 1979-02-28 -
Episode 18 - Ubu
Release Date: 1979-03-05 -
Episode 19 - My Way
Release Date: 1979-03-12 -
Episode 20 - Cinema: Don Siegel
Release Date: 1979-03-14 -
Episode 21 - La Dame aux Gladiolas
Release Date: 1979-03-19 -
Episode 22 - 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On
Release Date: 1979-03-26 -
Episode 23 - Cinema: Kung Fu, Run Run Shaw and Bruce Lee
Release Date: 1979-03-28 -
Episode 24 - Tell Us the Truth
Release Date: 1979-04-02Rock band Sham 69 have a large and loyal following of working-class kids, who call themselves 'The Sham Army'. They have a reputation for causing trouble and Sham concerts have often been disrupted and brought to an end by fighting.
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Episode 25 - The King and I
Release Date: 1979-04-09 -
Episode 26 - Their Lips are Sealed
Release Date: 1979-04-15 -
Episode 27 - Pictures of the Mind
Release Date: 1979-04-14