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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 - Edinburgh Festival
Release Date: 1977-09-07Features the 1977 Edinburgh International Festival with a new production of Carmen, the experimental shows, Film Festival, Television Festival, and art galleries.
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Episode 2 - Cinema
Release Date: 1977-09-14with Gavin Millar returns for a new season after a visit to Hollywood, which despite rumours of slump and panic is still the unquestioned capital of the cinema world. We talked to one of its ruling princes, John Franken heimer, director of The Manchurian Candidate and Grand Prix, about his career in the Dream Factory, and especially his latest suspense thriller Black Sunday.
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Episode 3 - Cinema
Release Date: 1977-09-21 -
Episode 4 - Art and Design
Release Date: 1977-09-28 -
Episode 5 - Cinema
Release Date: 1977-10-05Diane Keaton and Woody Allen talk about the filming of 'Annie Hall' and their long friendship.
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Episode 6 - Theatre
Release Date: 1977-10-12 -
Episode 7 - Cinema: Greece
Release Date: 1977-10-19 -
Episode 8 - Art and Design: Richard Seifert
Release Date: 1977-10-26 -
Episode 9 - Cinema
Release Date: 1977-11-02 -
Episode 10 - Theatre: Hands Off the Classics
Release Date: 1977-11-09In the 17th century Troilus and Cressida was censored and in the 18th century Tate gave King Lear a happy ending. The programme debates the line between interpretation and vandalism.
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Episode 11 - Cinema: 21st London Film Festival
Release Date: 1977-11-16 -
Episode 12 - Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag
Release Date: 1977-11-23 -
Episode 13 - Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 2
Release Date: 1977-11-30 -
Episode 14 - Theatre: Leonard Rossiter
Release Date: 1977-12-07 -
Episode 15 - Cinema: The Deep
Release Date: 1977-12-14 -
Episode 16 - Cinema: The Force is with us?
Release Date: 1978-01-11 -
Episode 17 - Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
Release Date: 1978-01-18George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities; Henry Moore discusses Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings.
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Episode 18 - Cinema: The Force is with us? - Part 2/Howard Hawks
Release Date: 1978-01-25 -
Episode 19 - Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard
Release Date: 1978-02-01 -
Episode 20 - Cinema: Joseph Conrad
Release Date: 1978-02-08 -
Episode 21 - Art and Design: Carrington
Release Date: 1978-02-15 -
Episode 22 - Cinema: Claude Renoir
Release Date: 1978-02-22 -
Episode 23 - Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...
Release Date: 1978-03-01 -
Episode 24 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Release Date: 1978-03-08 -
Episode 25 - Art and Design: Carl Andre
Release Date: 1978-03-15 -
Episode 26 - Cinema: Dancing Years
Release Date: 1978-03-22 -
Episode 27 - Theatre: Taking Our Time
Release Date: 1978-03-29 -
Episode 28 - Art and Design: Way Out West
Release Date: 1978-04-05 -
Episode 29 - Theatre: Children of the Gods
Release Date: 1978-04-12 -
Episode 30 - Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?
Release Date: 1978-04-17A tribute to the British filmmaker Alan Clarke (1935-1990).
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Episode 31 - Art and Design: George Melly
Release Date: 1978-05-03 -
Episode 32 - Theatre: Arnold Wesker
Release Date: 1978-05-10 -
Episode 33 - Rock: Tubes on Tour
Release Date: 1978-05-24