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Arena

Season 1992 1992
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  • BBC Two
  • 1h 30m
  • 1h 30m (1 episode)
  • 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.

3 episodes

Season Premiere

1992x01 Perpetual Motion - The Routemaster Bus

  • no air date1h 30m

Warren Clarke narrates a look at London's world-famous red Routemaster buses which, although designed in the 1950s for a lifespan of just 17 years, was in use into the next century.

About Arena

1992-01-31T21:00:00Z

1992x02 Masters of the Canvas

1992x02 Masters of the Canvas

  • 1992-01-31T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Paul Yates and Peter Blake on their fascination with masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki.

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