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Arena

  • TV series
  • 1975
  • NR
  • 1 season
  • 692 episodes

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Overview

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.

Roughly 1038h to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 692 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 90 minutes.

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Series cast and crew

  • Indira Varma

    Indira VarmaGila
    2 episodes

  • Tony Benn

    Tony BennSelf
    1 episode

  • James Brown

    James Brown
    1 episode

  • Gail Porter

    Gail Porter
    1 episode

  • Irvine Welsh

    Irvine Welsh
    1 episode

  • Katie Puckrik
    1 episode

  • David Baddiel

    David Baddiel
    1 episode

  • Harold Wilson

    Harold Wilson
    1 episode

  • Francis Ford Coppola

    Francis Ford CoppolaSelf
    1 episode

  • Martin Scorsese

    Martin ScorseseSelf
    1 episode

  • Tim Curry

    Tim CurryEden Rothwell Esp.
    1 episode

  • Nicholas Lyndhurst

    Nicholas LyndhurstDennis
    1 episode

  • Robert Altman

    Robert Altman
    1 episode

  • Frank Westmore
    1 episode

  • Éric Rohmer

    Éric Rohmer
    1 episode

  • Mick Brownfield
    1 episode

  • Don Siegel

    Don Siegel
    1 episode

  • Ralph Steadman
    1 episode

Network
BBC Four, BBC Two

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