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Arena

Season 3 1977 - 1978
NR

  • 1977-09-07T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h 30m
  • 2d 1h 30m (33 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.

33 episodes

Season Premiere

1977-09-07T20:00:00Z

3x01 Edinburgh Festival

Season Premiere

3x01 Edinburgh Festival

  • 1977-09-07T20:00:00Z1h 30m

Features the 1977 Edinburgh International Festival with a new production of Carmen, the experimental shows, Film Festival, Television Festival, and art galleries.

1977-09-14T20:00:00Z

3x02 Cinema

3x02 Cinema

  • 1977-09-14T20:00:00Z1h 30m

with 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.

1977-09-21T20:00:00Z

3x03 Cinema

3x03 Cinema

  • 1977-09-21T20:00:00Z1h 30m

1977-09-28T20:00:00Z

3x04 Art and Design

3x04 Art and Design

  • 1977-09-28T20:00:00Z1h 30m

1977-10-05T20:00:00Z

3x05 Cinema

3x05 Cinema

  • 1977-10-05T20:00:00Z1h 30m

Diane Keaton and Woody Allen talk about the filming of 'Annie Hall' and their long friendship.

1977-10-12T20:00:00Z

3x06 Theatre

3x06 Theatre

  • 1977-10-12T20:00:00Z1h 30m

1977-10-19T20:00:00Z

3x07 Cinema: Greece

3x07 Cinema: Greece

  • 1977-10-19T20:00:00Z1h 30m

3x08 Art and Design: Richard Seifert

  • 1977-10-26T21:00:00Z1h 30m

1977-11-02T21:00:00Z

3x09 Cinema

3x09 Cinema

  • 1977-11-02T21:00:00Z1h 30m

3x10 Theatre: Hands Off the Classics

  • 1977-11-09T21:00:00Z1h 30m

In 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.

3x11 Cinema: 21st London Film Festival

  • 1977-11-16T21:00:00Z1h 30m

1977-12-07T21:00:00Z

3x14 Theatre: Leonard Rossiter

3x14 Theatre: Leonard Rossiter

  • 1977-12-07T21:00:00Z1h 30m

1977-12-14T21:00:00Z

3x15 Cinema: The Deep

3x15 Cinema: The Deep

  • 1977-12-14T21:00:00Z1h 30m

3x16 Cinema: The Force is with us?

  • 1978-01-11T21:00:00Z1h 30m

George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities; Henry Moore discusses Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings.

1978-02-08T21:00:00Z

3x20 Cinema: Joseph Conrad

3x20 Cinema: Joseph Conrad

  • 1978-02-08T21:00:00Z1h 30m

3x21 Art and Design: Carrington

  • 1978-02-15T21:00:00Z1h 30m

1978-02-22T21:00:00Z

3x22 Cinema: Claude Renoir

3x22 Cinema: Claude Renoir

  • 1978-02-22T21:00:00Z1h 30m

3x25 Art and Design: Carl Andre

  • 1978-03-15T21:00:00Z1h 30m

1978-03-22T20:00:00Z

3x26 Cinema: Dancing Years

3x26 Cinema: Dancing Years

  • 1978-03-22T20:00:00Z1h 30m

1978-03-29T20:00:00Z

3x27 Theatre: Taking Our Time

3x27 Theatre: Taking Our Time

  • 1978-03-29T20:00:00Z1h 30m

3x28 Art and Design: Way Out West

  • 1978-04-05T20:00:00Z1h 30m

3x29 Theatre: Children of the Gods

  • 1978-04-12T20:00:00Z1h 30m

3x30 Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?

  • 1978-04-17T20:00:00Z1h 30m

A tribute to the British filmmaker Alan Clarke (1935-1990).

3x31 Art and Design: George Melly

  • 1978-05-03T20:00:00Z1h 30m

1978-05-10T20:00:00Z

3x32 Theatre: Arnold Wesker

3x32 Theatre: Arnold Wesker

  • 1978-05-10T20:00:00Z1h 30m

1978-05-24T20:00:00Z

3x33 Rock: Tubes on Tour

3x33 Rock: Tubes on Tour

  • 1978-05-24T20:00:00Z1h 30m
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