Arena
TV Show| Title | Arena |
| User score | 6.7 |
| Release date | Oct 1, 1975 |
| Release date of last episode | Apr 22, 2023 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Production country | United Kingdom |
| Series status | Returning series |
| Seasons count | 45 (List of episodes) |
| Episodes count | 297 |
| Run time | 90 min. |
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.
Latest episodes
List of episodesS45.E6 ∙ Bergman: A Year in the Life
Sep 29, 2019
S38.E9 ∙ Screen Goddesses
Dec 22, 2012
S25.E3 ∙ Wisconsin Death Trip
Jun 2, 2000
S23.E4 ∙ Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
May 15, 1998
S3.E33 ∙ Rock: Tubes on Tour
May 24, 1978
S3.E32 ∙ Theatre: Arnold Wesker
May 10, 1978
S3.E31 ∙ Art and Design: George Melly
May 3, 1978
S3.E30 ∙ Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?
Apr 17, 1978
S3.E29 ∙ Theatre: Children of the Gods
Apr 12, 1978
S3.E28 ∙ Art and Design: Way Out West
Apr 5, 1978
S3.E27 ∙ Theatre: Taking Our Time
Mar 29, 1978
S3.E26 ∙ Cinema: Dancing Years
Mar 22, 1978
S3.E25 ∙ Art and Design: Carl Andre
Mar 15, 1978
S3.E24 ∙ Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Mar 8, 1978
S3.E23 ∙ Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...
Mar 1, 1978
S3.E22 ∙ Cinema: Claude Renoir
Feb 22, 1978
S3.E21 ∙ Art and Design: Carrington
Feb 15, 1978
S3.E20 ∙ Cinema: Joseph Conrad
Feb 8, 1978
S3.E19 ∙ Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard
Feb 1, 1978
S3.E18 ∙ Cinema: The Force is with us? - Part 2/Howard Hawks
Jan 25, 1978
Actors
See morePeter Blake
Self
Paul Yates
Self
Kendo Nagasaki
Self
Sister Wendy Beckett
Herself
Kenneth Anger
Self
Jayne Mansfield
Self (archive footage)
Gloria Swanson
Self (archive footage)
Tom Mix
Self (archive footage)
Gig Young
Self (archive footage)
James Dean
Self (archive footage)
Ramon Novarro
Self (archive footage)
Marianne Faithfull
Self
