List of episodes of the series «Arena»

Theatre

• Episode number: 1
• Episode description:
  Premiere. Ronald Eyre reviews what's going on in the theatre, Kenneth Tynan talks to Laurence Olivier about Lilian Baylis and The Old Vic, and a film about David Hockney's sets for The Rake's Progress.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 2
• Episode description:
  George Melly looks at how they sold the 70's and a report on the opening of the Space Studios.

Theatre

• Episode number: 3
• Episode description:
  An interview with Howard Barker, author of 'Stripwell', and an extract from same; commentary by Kenneth Tynan; and an investigation of 'Birds of Paradise'.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 4
• Episode description:
  Cartoonist Mel Caiman on the New Yorker magazine and its artists, Richard Hamilton at the Serpentine Gallery, and a new documentary exhibition from Jarrow.

Theatre

• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 90 min.
• Episode description:
  Peter Hall talks about the history and new South Band location of the National Theater, where he is artistic director.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 90 min.
• Episode description:
  Features Observer critic William Feaver on Painting the End of the World, Bill Brandt's selection of landscape photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the best of science fiction illustration.

Theatre

• Episode number: 7
• Episode duration: 90 min.
• Episode description:
  Extract from a contemporary play and Kenneth Tynan opines.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 8
• Episode duration: 90 min.
• Episode description:
  Shirley Conran is the guest columnist; fashion photographer Barry Lategan is filmed working; and Victorian painter Edward Burne-Jones' London exhibition.

Theatre

• Episode number: 9
• Episode duration: 90 min.
• Episode description:
  Deborah Norton reviews British stage events, a play extract, and Kenneth Tynan opines about the theatre.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 10
• Episode description:
  Guest columnist Terry Measham; a look into the work of painter and poet Charles Tomlinson.

Theatre

• Episode number: 11
• Episode description:
  Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova rehearse for a BBC New Year Gala Performance; Kenneth Tynan draws a portrait of Albert Finney.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 12
• Episode description:
  Filmmaker Roger Graef and journalist Simon Jenkins discuss the destruction of historical buildings, in light of a recent SAVE campaign report and the conclusion of the European Architectural Heritage Year.

Theatre

• Episode number: 13
• Episode description:
  Deborah Norton returns with reports, interviews and extracts from what is liveliest and best in the British theatrical scene.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 14

Theatre

• Episode number: 15
• Episode description:
  Jonathan Miller introduces this week's look at what is most stimulating and enjoyable on the theatrical scene.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 16
• Episode description:
  A look at American photographer Paul Strand and recent trends in British photography.

Theatre

• Episode number: 17
• Episode description:
  Arena goes to Scarborough for the British premiere of a new Alan Ayckbourn play "Just Between Ourselves".

Art and Design

• Episode number: 18
• Episode description:
  Arena looks at aspects of community art and the work of painter Keith Grant, artist-in-residence at the New Charing Cross Hospital.

Theatre

• Episode number: 19
• Episode description:
  Claire Bloom and Kenneth Tynan discuss extracts from Samuel Beckett's 'Happy Days', George Bernard Shaw's 'Too True to be Good', and Tennessee Williams' 'Sweet Bird of Youth'.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 20
• Episode description:
  Arena talks with Robert Janz and Dante Leonelli about incorporating time into sculpture.

Theatre

• Episode number: 21
• Episode description:
  Arena brings extracts from Paris' contemporary theatre season, including Frank Wedekind's 'Lulu' and Marguerite Duras' 'Days in the Tree', and an interview with Delphine Seyrig.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 22
• Episode description:
  Arena presents the work of British and American video artists.

Theatre

• Episode number: 23
• Episode description:
  Barbara Jefford, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Kenneth Tynan Billie Whitelaw and many of the people behind the scenes say goodbye to the Old Vic building.

Art and Design

• Episode number: 24
• Episode description:
  Liverpool poet and painter Adrian Henry visits 'The Face of Merseyside'; Boyd and Evans use photographs as the basis of their explorations of everyday life.

Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court

• Episode number: 25
• Episode description:
  Alumni of the Royal Court celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?

• Episode number: 26
• Episode description:
  Barrie Penrose investigates a multi-national art empire and the artists and methods that created it.