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Arena

Season 1982 1982
NR

  • 1982-11-09T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h 30m
  • 10h 30m (7 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
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.

7 episodes

Season Premiere

1982-11-09T21:00:00Z

1982x01 A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton

Season Premiere

1982x01 A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton

  • 1982-11-09T21:00:00Z1h 30m

1982x02 Mike Leigh Making Plays

  • 1982-09-04T20:00:00Z1h 30m

1982-05-18T20:00:00Z

1982x03 The Orson Welles Story

1982x03 The Orson Welles Story

  • 1982-05-18T20:00:00Z1h 30m

1982-02-23T21:00:00Z

1982x05 Desert Island Discs

1982x05 Desert Island Discs

  • 1982-02-23T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, including Paul McCartney, Frankie Howerd, Russell Harty, Trevor Brooking, the Lord Mayor of London, Professor J.K. Galbraith and Arthur Askey.

The special guest for the 40th anniversary programme was Paul McCartney who was also a fan of the show: "I love its homeliness. It conjures up the best in traditional British pleasure, like the great British breakfast. It's an honour to be asked."

This quirky Arena, made in 1982, looks back to a time when the humble Ford Cortina was the most popular, and the most stolen, car in Britain.

Season Finale

1982-11-30T21:00:00Z

1982x13 Three Steps To Heaven

Season Finale

1982x13 Three Steps To Heaven

  • 1982-11-30T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Documentary which looks at the life and premature death of rock n' Roll star Eddie Cochran, with comment from Larry Parnes, Adam Faith, Marty Wilde, Joe Brown, Cochran's mother and his fiancee Sharon Sheeley.

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