Arena S01E620 · Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes

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Documentary about the great saxophonist Sonny Rollins, built around his 80th birthday concert, where he is joined by the likes of Roy Haynes, Jim Hall and Ornette Coleman.

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1. 1 1. Theatre1975-10-01Premiere. 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
2. 2 2. Art and Design1975-10-08George Melly looks at how they sold the 70's and a report on the opening of the Space Studios.
3. 3 3. Theatre1975-10-15An interview with Howard Barker, author of 'Stripwell', and an extract from same; commentary by Kenneth Tynan; and an investigation of 'Birds of Paradise'.
4. 4 4. Art and Design1975-10-22Cartoonist Mel Caiman on the New Yorker magazine and its artists, Richard Hamilton at the Serpentine Gallery, and a new documentary exhibition from Jarrow.
5. 5 5. Theatre1975-10-29 · 1h 30mPeter Hall talks about the history and new South Band location of the National Theater, where he is artistic director.
6. 6 6. Art and Design1975-11-05 · 1h 30mFeatures 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 scienc
7. 7 7. Theatre1975-11-12 · 1h 30mExtract from a contemporary play and Kenneth Tynan opines.
8. 8 8. Art and Design1975-11-19 · 1h 30mShirley Conran is the guest columnist; fashion photographer Barry Lategan is filmed working; and Victorian painter Edward Burne-Jones' London exhibition.
9. 9 9. Theatre1975-11-26 · 1h 30mDeborah Norton reviews British stage events, a play extract, and Kenneth Tynan opines about the theatre.
10. 10 10. Art and Design1975-12-03Guest columnist Terry Measham; a look into the work of painter and poet Charles Tomlinson.
11. 11 11. Theatre1975-12-10Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova rehearse for a BBC New Year Gala Performance; Kenneth Tynan draws a portrait of Albert Finney.
12. 12 12. Art and Design1975-12-17Filmmaker 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 Arc
13. 13 13. Theatre1976-01-07Deborah Norton returns with reports, interviews and extracts from what is liveliest and best in the British theatrical scene.
14. 14 14. Art and Design1976-01-14
15. 15 15. Theatre1976-01-21Jonathan Miller introduces this week's look at what is most stimulating and enjoyable on the theatrical scene.
16. 16 16. Art and Design1976-01-28A look at American photographer Paul Strand and recent trends in British photography.
17. 17 17. Theatre1976-02-04Arena goes to Scarborough for the British premiere of a new Alan Ayckbourn play "Just Between Ourselves".
18. 18 18. Art and Design1976-02-11Arena looks at aspects of community art and the work of painter Keith Grant, artist-in-residence at the New Charing Cross Hospital.
19. 19 19. Theatre1976-02-18Claire 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'.
20. 20 20. Art and Design1976-02-25Arena talks with Robert Janz and Dante Leonelli about incorporating time into sculpture.
21. 21 21. Theatre1976-03-03Arena 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.
22. 22 22. Art and Design1976-03-10Arena presents the work of British and American video artists.
23. 23 23. Theatre1976-03-17Barbara Jefford, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Kenneth Tynan Billie Whitelaw and many of the people behind the scenes say goodbye to the Old Vic building.
24. 24 24. Art and Design1976-03-24Liverpool poet and painter Adrian Henry visits 'The Face of Merseyside'; Boyd and Evans use photographs as the basis of their explorations of everyday life.
25. 25 25. Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court1976-03-31Alumni of the Royal Court celebrate its 20th anniversary.
26. 26 26. Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?1976-04-07Barrie Penrose investigates a multi-national art empire and the artists and methods that created it.
27. 27 27. Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 11976-08-25Features Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Galina Visnevskaya in the Scottish Opera's production of Macbeth, The Kantor Theatre Company from Poland, and Fenella Fielding in a late-night revue
28. 28 28. Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 21976-09-01Features the La Mama Theatre Company from New York; Bunraku, traditional Japanese Puppet Theatre; a recital by Frederica Von Stade; and Judith Blegen as Susanna in 'The Marriage of
29. 29 29. Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 31976-09-08Writer Germaine Greer and her god-daughter Ruby take a look at a child's Edinburgh Festival and some of the fringe activities, including Gruppo Teatro Libero from Rome and Quentin
30. 30 30. Theatre: A Dream Come True1976-09-15A look at the opening of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
31. 31 31. Robert Altman1976-09-22Gavin Miller interviews the director Robert Altman on "M*A*S*H", "Nashville", "Buffalo Bill and the Indians" and more.
32. 32 32. Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer1976-09-29David Gould, the expert who discovered Tom Keating's Samuel Palmer imitations, shows the process of identifying and analyzing suspected pictures.
33. 33 33. Frank Westmore1976-10-06Gavin Millar talks with Frank Westmore, whose family has dominated the make-up departments of American cinema for decades.
34. 34 34. Theatre1976-10-13Peter Shaffer, writer of 'Equus', talks about his plays, his life and the theatre with an excerpt from the 1976 stage production of 'Equus'.
35. 35 35. Cinema: Eric Rohmer1976-10-20Gavin Millar interviews director Eric Rohmer about 'Die Marquise von O', 'Claire's Knee' and 'Love in the Afternoon'.
36. 36 36. Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manha1976-10-27British illustrators Mick Brownfield and Allan Manham are documented working on their current projects; Artist Chris Orr probes the dreadful truth behind the net curtains of suburb
37. 37 37. Cinema: Don Siegel1976-11-03Don Siegel, director of 'The Shootist', 'Charley Varrick', 'Coogan's Bluff', 'Dirty Harry' and many other violent thrillers talks about the problems of the director who is typecast
38. 38 38. Theatre: The Cultural Common Market1976-11-10A look at Theatre National Populaire, one of France's leading theaters, and Patrice Chéreau's 'La Dispute' by Marivaux and Roger Planchon's 'Tartuffe', as well as scene's from Plan
39. 39 39. Cinema1976-11-17In light of the low proportion of British films in the 20th London Film Festival, Gavin Millar looks at what's wrong with the British film industry and distribution system.
40. 40 40. Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell1976-11-24Sculpture for the Blind - a special Tate Gallery exhibition; Linda Benedict-Jones, photographer; James Boswell - a revival of his war pictures.
41. 41 41. Cinema1976-12-01Arena speaks with Spanish directors at the Madrid premiere of 'The Long Vacation of 36'.
42. 42 42. Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle1976-12-0820th anniversary tribute to Bertolt Brecht at Newcastle's University Theatre with scenes from 'The Good Woman of Setzuan' and prose, poetry and music.
43. 43 43. Cinema: Christmas Special1976-12-15A look at the Disney exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum; an interview with 'The Ritz' director Dick Lester and actress Rita Moreno; an excerpt from Buster Keaton's 'Spite Ma
44. 44 44. Cinema1977-01-05Gavin Millar talks to Mel Brooks just before the London release of 'Silent Movie'.
45. 45 45. Art and Design: Sam Smith: Genuine England/Arena Review1977-01-12An introduction to the magical world of wood-sculptor Sam Smith, plus a look at one of this month's major exhibitions.
46. 46 46. Cinema1977-01-19Gavin Miller talks to director Martin Ritt, writer Walter Bernstein, and actors Woody Allen and Zero Mostel about 'The Front'
47. 47 47. Theatre: Spokesong/At Home with Mole1977-01-26An interview with Stewart Parker about his new musical 'Spokesong' with excerpt; a profile of 81 year old actor Richard Goolden with scenes from 'Toad of Toad Hall' and Tom Stoppar
48. 48 48. Cinema1977-02-02A fortnightly look at the big screen at home and abroad. News, views and interviews presented by Gavin Millar.
49. 49 49. Art and Design: Ralph Steadman1977-02-09Ralph Steadman illustrates a children's anti-war story, caricatures at his local pub, and speaks about his drawing techniques and his work, including Alice, and impressions of the
50. 50 50. Cinema1977-02-16Gavin Miller discusses 'Network' with director Sidney Lumet and Robert Kee; Alberto Cavalcanti talks about his film career on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
51. 51 51. Theatre: The Cultural Common Market: Peter Stein and the Schaubuhne1977-02-23Peter Stein, director of Die Schaubuhne theatre co-operative, comes to London with his Shakespeare Project. Includes extracts from 'Summerfolk' and 'Shakespeare's Memory'.
52. 52 52. Cinema1977-03-02Gavin Millar talks to New Yorker critic Pauline Kael about Costa-Gavras' 'Z' and 'Section Speciale', along with her passion for the movies and how she wields her power.
53. 53 53. Art and Design: What Is a Hologram?/Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon1977-03-09Arena investigates holograms and their potential in the arts; artist Kit Williams' vivid folklore paintings.
54. 54 54. Cinema1977-03-16On the occasion of the release of the third film version of 'A Star is Born', James Mason talks about the curious business of stardom and how it has changed.
55. 55 55. Theatre: A Night Out1977-03-23Arena visits three theatres - the Mercury Theater in Colchester, the Humberside Theatre in Hull, and the Duke's Playhouse in Lancaster - to find out what they are doing, how they a
56. 56 56. Cinema1977-03-30A look at Ealing Studios, including excerpts of many of their popular films.
57. 57 57. Art and Design: Family Pieces/Both Sides of the Line/The Divine and the Fantastic1977-04-06Portrait painter Philip Sutton; Helmut Weissenborn, a German WWI soldier who illustrated with wood engravings the war diary of Edward Thomas, an English poet who died in WWI; and G
58. 58 58. Cinema1977-04-13In a special edition from Rome, Gavin Millar interviews Bernardo Bertolucci, director of 'Last Tango in Paris' and '1900', and Gore Vidal on Hollywood and 'Cinecitta'.
59. 59 59. Theatre: The Prospect Before Us1977-04-20Prospect Theatre Company reopens the Old Vic. Includes rehearsal footage from 'St Joan', 'Hamlet', 'Antony and Cleopatra', and 'War Music', a new musical adaptation of 'The Iliad'
60. 60 60. Cinema1977-04-27Gavin Millar talks to director Bernardo Berolucci in Rome about '1900', his new five and a half hour film, as well as his earlier work.
61. 61 61. Art and Design: The Continuous Diary/Dine's Drawings1977-05-04The artist Ian Breakwall gave up painting for the art of a daily diary; Jim Dine explains why he returned from pop art to drawing the human figure.
62. 62 62. Cinema1977-05-11Arena looks at erotic films, including 'Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus', 'Hardcore', and 'Come Play With Me'.
63. 63 63. Cinema1977-05-25An interview with Sophia Loren on the occasion of the opening of 'The Cassandra Crossing'.
64. 64 64. Cinema1977-06-08Mr Universe, the Crazy Horse Girls de Paris, Yum Yum Shaw, superstars with police escorts, topless bathing beauties-the Cannes Film Festival still sometimes seems more like a circu
65. 65 65. Theatre: Playwrights of the 70's1977-06-15In the last ten years an astonishing number of new writers have emerged. Plays by Barrie Keeffe, John McGrath, David Hare, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton, Trevor Griffiths and Steph
66. 66 66. Edinburgh Festival1977-09-07Features the 1977 Edinburgh International Festival with a new production of Carmen, the experimental shows, Film Festival, Television Festival, and art galleries.
67. 67 67. Cinema1977-09-14with 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
68. 68 68. Cinema1977-09-21
69. 69 69. Art and Design1977-09-28
70. 70 70. Cinema1977-10-05Diane Keaton and Woody Allen talk about the filming of 'Annie Hall' and their long friendship.
71. 71 71. Theatre1977-10-12
72. 72 72. Cinema: Greece1977-10-19
73. 73 73. Art and Design: Richard Seifert1977-10-26
74. 74 74. Cinema1977-11-02
75. 75 75. Theatre: Hands Off the Classics1977-11-09In 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 vandalis
76. 76 76. Cinema: 21st London Film Festival1977-11-16
77. 77 77. Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag1977-11-23
78. 78 78. Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 21977-11-30
79. 79 79. Theatre: Leonard Rossiter1977-12-07
80. 80 80. Cinema: The Deep1977-12-14
81. 81 81. Cinema: The Force is with us?1978-01-11Star Wars - the biggest and fastest money-maker in the history of the movies - has opened in Britain at last. What on earth - or in heaven - has caused the phenomenal success of th
82. 82 82. Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist1978-01-18George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities; Henry Moore discusses Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings.
83. 83 83. Cinema: The Force is with us? - Part 2/Howard Hawks1978-01-25The Force is with us? Star Wars - the biggest and fastest money-maker in the history of the movies - has opened in Britain at last. What on earth - or in heaven - has caused the p
84. 84 84. Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard1978-02-01But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard CHEKHOV: '... It hasn't turned out a drama but as a comedy, in places even a farce.' STANISLAVSKY: ' ... I wept lik
85. 85 85. Cinema: Joseph Conrad1978-02-08A British film The Duellists starring Keith Carradine , Harvey Keitel and Albert Finney won the Special Jury Award at Cannes last year and it opened in London last week. It is a fi
86. 86 86. Art and Design: Carrington1978-02-15
87. 87 87. Cinema: Claude Renoir1978-02-22
88. 88 88. Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...1978-03-01
89. 89 89. Close Encounters of the Third Kind1978-03-08
90. 90 90. Art and Design: Carl Andre1978-03-15
91. 91 91. Cinema: Dancing Years1978-03-22
92. 92 92. Theatre: Taking Our Time1978-03-29
93. 93 93. Art and Design: Way Out West1978-04-05
94. 94 94. Theatre: Children of the Gods1978-04-12
95. 95 95. Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?1978-04-17A tribute to the British filmmaker Alan Clarke (1935-1990).
96. 96 96. Art and Design: George Melly1978-05-03
97. 97 97. Theatre: Arnold Wesker1978-05-10
98. 98 98. Rock: Tubes on Tour1978-05-24
99. 99 99. Episode 991978-10-11Last Saturday in the Francois Truffaut Season now running on BBC2, "L'Enfant Sauvage", one of his masterpieces, was shown. Set in 18th-century France it is about the attempts of a
100. 100 100. Vanessa Redgrave1978-10-18'She is a creature of fire and light, her voice a golden gate opening on lapis lazuli hinges, her body a supple reed rippling in the breeze of her love. This is not acting at all b
101. 101 101. Arena: Cinema1978-10-25Hooray for Hollywood? Gavin Millar talks to: Christopher Isherwood has been a Hollywood immigrant for 40 years and loved every minute of bis screenwriting career there. 'Thank goo
102. 102 102. Arena: Cinema1978-11-22A new British film has its Royal Premiere tomorrow. It is an English period film and vividly demonstrates the high production values, quality and talent available in this country b
103. 103 103. Arena: Cinema1978-12-06This year's London Film Festival contained five entries from India. It's a reminder that we hardly see any of the output of the biggest film industry in the world. Gavin Millar re
104. 104 104. Arena: The Museum of Drawers1979-01-08Arena takes you on a guided tour of the smallest museum in the world - its 'curator', Swiss artist Herbert Distel, has transformed a small chest-of-drawers into a miniature museum.
105. 105 105. On Photography1979-01-15Featuring two of the greatest photographers of the 20th century Jacques Henri Lartigue began taking photographs at the age of seven in 1902. His celebrated Diary of a Century is a
106. 106 106. Arena: Cinema1979-01-17Gavin Millar presents another edition in his regular series about the cinema today.
107. 107 107. Arena: Cinema1979-01-21Gavin Millar talks to Robert Alt man about his new film A Wedding; plus Karel Reisz 's Dog Soldiers and other turn-of-the-year news. (Postponed from 20 December)
108. 108 108. Who is Poly Styrene?1979-01-22wo years ago Marion Elliott , a 20-year-old from Brixton, gave up working in Woolworths and became punk singer Poly Styrene. Having created her own plastic image, she formed a ban
109. 109 109. Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes1979-01-29Aloe: a genus of plant indigenous to South Africa, noted for its ability to survive under the most adverse conditions. Athol Fugard is the author of such celebrated plays as The B
110. 110 110. Arena: Cinema1979-01-31Assault on Precinct 13 and Dark Star were two of the ' sleepers ' of the last two years - small-budget films from the USA that struck a chord right round the world. Their young wri
111. 111 111. Maler's Requiem - Words and Images1979-02-05Fibreglass carcasses, a flaming typewriter, and a troop of girl guides - each has been a -key ingredient in a work of art by Leopoldo Maler. Deliberately provocative, surprise and
112. 112 112. Piaf AND What Did You Do in 'The Warp' Daddy?1979-02-12The sell-out success of this year's Royal Shakespeare season at Stratford is the musical play, Piaf. Jane Lapotaire, television's Marie Curie, has won universal critical acclaim fo
113. 113 113. Arena: Cinema1979-02-14John Barry (designer Star Wars and Superman) is now directing Saturn 3. Ridley Scott (The Duellists) is shooting The Alien. Gavin Millar reports on these two new British SF films.
114. 114 114. Other Writers Will Tell You Different and The Moving Picture Mime Show1979-02-26Other Writers Will Tell You Different.... Lifers in prison cages, comedians in Hollywood, adolescents in the East End and female androids on the edge of the galaxy have all been s
115. 115 115. Arena: Cinema1979-02-28Isabelle Huppert is 23 - ' a stunning actress ', says Claude Chabrol ; 'Best Actress ' at Cannes in 1978 for Violette Noziere , the new Chabrol thriller. We talk to her in Paris.
116. 116 116. Ubu1979-03-05The television premiere of GEOFF DUNBAR'S brilliant animation film. Based on ALFRED JARRY's notorious surrealist hero, Pere Ubu , it chronicles the rise to power of a kind of punk
117. 117 117. My Way1979-03-12Q. What do the following have in common? Frank Sinatra, Sid Vicious, Dorothy Squires, Barry John, Paul Anka, Lord George-Brown, Elvis Presley, Prof Wilfrid Mellers, Shirley Bassey
118. 118 118. Arena: Cinema1979-03-14Twenty-three years ago Don Siegel made his famous horrorpic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Now there is a new Invasion, even more chilling than the original; make-up effects by th
119. 119 119. La Dame aux Gladiolas1979-03-19Arena presents The Agony and the Ecstasy of Edna Everage In this, the first-ever exclusive Arts Documentary about a living legend, our cameras probe and etch the enigma which is D
120. 120 120. 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On1979-03-26At the height of the American depression in the summer of 1936, t writer JAMES AGEE and photographer WALKER EVANS travelled south to Alabama. There they lived with a family of poor
121. 121 121. Arena: Cinema1979-03-28with Gavin Millar. Everybody knows about Kung Fu, Run Run Shaw and Bruce Lee. They probably know less about the young film-makers who are trying to get a few of Hong Kong's more p
122. 122 122. Tell Us the Truth1979-04-02Rock band Sham 69 have a large and loyal following of working-class kids, who call themselves 'The Sham Army'. They have a reputation for causing trouble and Sham concerts have oft
123. 123 123. The King and I AND Journey to the Surface of the Earth1979-04-09The King and I For David Oxtoby, Elvis is king. He's been painting rock 'n' roll stars since the 50s, much to the bemusement of the art establishment. Most of the paintings in thi
124. 124 124. Their Lips are Sealed1979-04-15Arena presents a film about the strange art of ventriloquism with Tattersall and his amazing life-size doll.
125. 125 125. Steel Pulse1979-05-21A film about the popular reggae band Steel Pulse, Whose highly successful debut album ' Handsworth Revolution' launched them last summer on the road to fame. Although their roots
126. 126 126. Ring Around the Moon1979-06-11The Paintings of Kit Williams Inspired by the landscape, the wildlife and by his village neighbours, artist Kit Williams conjures up in his paintings a vivid folk-lore of his own.
127. 127 127. Pictures of the Mind1979-06-14One in six people in Britain will spend some time in a mental hospital. For 50 years, painting or drawing have provided an important key to the problems of the mentally ill. This
128. 128 128. Six Days in September1979-09-29John Hoyland is reckoned by many both here and abroad to be this country's finest abstract painter. A key figure for younger artists and critics, he has been both loved and hated t
129. 129 129. Building for Change1979-01-16Arena presents a profile of Richard Rogers, one of the most original and controversial talents in architecture today. It was Rogers, together with his Italian partner RENZO PIANO
130. 130 130. Athol Fugard A Lesson from Aloes1980-01-17Athol Fugard is the author of such celebrated plays as The Blood-knot, The Island and Sizwe Bansi is Dead. He is known throughout the world for his opposition to apartheid and for
131. 131 131. Lene Lovich Sleeping Beauty1980-01-23Formerly a professional screamer in horror films, a belly-dancer in the Middle East, Lene Lovich has now emerged as one of the most original performers in rock music -aided and abe
132. 132 132. Mentioned in Dispatches1980-01-30Arena presents the extraordinary story of Tim Page, war photographer and Vietnam legend-a tale first told in MICHAEL HERR'S celebrated book about Vietnam, Dispatches. 'People made
133. 133 133. Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs Pupko's Beard1980-02-06Arena presents a hilarious and touching portrait of the great Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, filmed on location in Brooklyn, New York, and featuring friends, relatives and o
134. 134 134. Peggy Taub, the Learned Goat and Other People ...1980-02-13This week Arena features two highly-individual women artists. Peggy Taub has always wanted to sculpt like the classic Greeks. But whenever she leans over the clay bin an animal he
135. 135 135. Bring Me Back a Song1980-02-27Irish folk music is one of the oldest unbroken cultural traditions in Europe. As the Sense of Ireland festival of arts comes to London, Arena presents some of the finest Irish musi
136. 136 136. ' I talk about me - I am Africa'1980-03-05The growth of black consciousness through the 1970s has produced an explosion of original new theatre in black South Africa. At a secret performance in the backyard of a Soweto sho
137. 137 137. Rudies Come Back or The Rise and Rise of 2-Tone1980-03-12Adrian Thrills investigates a new and exhilarating musical blend which is taking the country by storm. 2-tone is a unique mix of music, fusing together reggae, rock, soul, ska, bl
138. 138 138. Working At It1980-03-19A profile of Liverpool playwright Alan Bleasdale With two new productions packing them in, in the North of England, ALAN BLEASDALE continues to build on the popular success of his
139. 139 139. Victoria Wood and Andrea Dunbar1980-03-26As prizewinning writer/performer Victoria Wood opens in her latest play, Good Fun, Arena looks at her talent to amuse through her witty and engaging songs. And we profile teenage
140. 140 140. Climb Every Mountain or Nothing Succeeds Like Failure1980-04-02"Failure can be fun' is the motto of self-confessed failures David McGillivray and Stephen Pile (above-if RADIO TIMES had only been able to take a picture of him). McGillivray was
141. 141 141. Double Vision1980-04-09The story of an unusual collaboration between rock musician Brian Eno and artist illustrator Russell Mills. The 65 works in Russell Mills' new series of paintings provide a remarka
142. 142 142. Dedicated Followers of Fashion1980-04-16featuring "Where Did You Get That Hat?" The outrageous hats of designer David Shilling, modelled by his mother Gertrude - doyenne of Ascot Day... "One Ascot I wore a Christmas tr
143. 143 143. Luck and Flaw1980-05-21One after another mighty politicians have fallen victim to the savage caricatures of Peter Fluck and Roger Law , better known as Luck and Flaw. Among their most memorable targets a
144. 144 144. In Their Own Image AND Facing Up to Myself1980-05-28In Their Own Image Two women photographers turn the camera on themselves ... Time Release For over a year Linda Benedict -Jones photographed herself, by using the time release on
145. 145 145. Making 'The Shining'1980-10-04Stanley Kubrick's long-awaited film The Shining opens in London this week and throughout the country from tomorrow. To mark the event Arena offers a unique opportunity to eavesdrop
146. 146 146. Dire Straits1980-12-22Not so long ago they were playing in London pubs. This week - 16 platinum discs, 21 gold and a triumphant world tour later, Dire Straits return to the London stage. Tonight's Arena
147. 147 147. Chelsea Hotel1981-01-03It was in the Chelsea Hotel, New York, that Bob Dylan wrote 'Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands', Andy Warhol filmed Chelsea Girls and Dylan Thomas drank himself to death. For 100 years
148. 148 148. Hazell Meets His Makers1981-01-10Arena eavesdrops on the writing of a new adventure for James Hazell , popular cockney private eye. He is the creation of Terry Venables , manager of Queen's Park Rangers, and Gordo
149. 149 149. Getting Away from Sidney1981-01-17' Uncle Sidney' is the kindly old soul in charge of an institute for the disabled: he tucks them up at night and keeps them supplied with back numbers of the Reader's Digest. But,
150. 150 150. Private Worlds1981-01-24This week two genuinely, original English artists introduce you to their work: Sam Smith , whose impeccably carved and printed wooden models evoke an Edwardian childhood - obsessed
151. 151 151. Today Carshalton Beaches ... Tomorrow Croydon1981-01-31Arena investigates the grass-roots of rock today with John Peel and John Walters ' When the punk thing started, the whole process of making records, and music as well, was demysti
152. 152 152. Edward HopperArena marks a major retrospective exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery with a film about the great American realist painter EDWARD HOPPER. His subject is the face of America - ha
153. 153 153. Stages1981-02-28For the past ten years Peter Brook and his unique company of actors have travelled the world with a series of extraordinary theatrical ventures. The last stage of their journey was
154. 154 154. The Smallest Theatre1981-03-07Tonight, from a converted cowshed in the wilds of Scotland, Arena presents The Smallest Theatre in Great Britain. Immortalised in the Guinness Book of Records, Barrie and Marianne
155. 155 155. Huston's Hobby1981-03-14There were these five guys round the table: the Lightweight Boxing Champion of California; an expert on Pre-Columbian art; an honorary lieutenant in the Mexican army; an architect
156. 156 156. A Walk with Amos Oz1981-03-21' Marching the streets of Jerusalem in 67, carrying a sub-machine-gun, I was in an absurd way acting out the role reserved* for the Arabs in my childhood nightmares. For the life o
157. 157 157. God's Fifth Columnist1981-03-28"I don't go out much these days, and when I do I find life infinitely dreary compared to my books..." William Gerhardie, who died at the age of 82 in 1977, was a legend in the worl
158. 158 158. Did You Miss Me ...?1981-04-04' It suddenly dawned on me that I was absolutely broke, completely and utterly. I didn't have a penny in the world ... this was where fame was cruel.' (GARY GLITTER) Five years ago
159. 159 159. The Return of Lupino Lane1981-04-15Lupino Lane , the man who made ' The Lambeth Walk ' famous, was a comic who once rivalled Chaplin and Keaton. With the advent of the talkies, his small studio folded and all the ne
160. 160 160. The Comic Strip Hero1981-04-18This week Arena patrols the skies above Metropolis in search of the legend that is SUPERMAN ... Meet Kirk Alyn , the first celluloid-Superman and Christopher Reeve the latest; Dr
161. 161 161. Arena on Clair1981-05-02Clair thought of himself as a screenwriter as well as a director. He put his stamp on French screen comedy in the 20s and 30s with such classics as The Italian Straw Hat , Sous les
162. 162 162. Somewhere Over the Rainbow1981-05-09As a child, trapped in a crazy Jewish household in a poor Chicago tenement, the American artist Robert Natkin had to find a way to change his life. His imagination was engulfed by
163. 163 163. If the Music Had to Stop1981-05-16Britain's musical reputation is second to none, and depends ultimately on an exceptional tradition of youth orchestras. The educational ideals which underlie this tradition are ex
164. 164 164. Curtains? The Future of the National Youth Theatre1981-08-16Derek Jacobi, Helen Mirren, Martin Jarvis, playwrights Peter Terson and Barrie Keefe - all products of the National Youth theatre, a unique organisation, which every summer brings
165. 165 165. The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda1981-09-06For 25 years the Polish film director ADRZEJ WAJDA has been making some of the most exciting and boldly critical films in Eastern Europe. He was filmed in Warsaw and Cracow shortly
166. 166 166. 'I Thought I Was Taller' A Short History of Mel Brooks1981-10-02From Brooklyn to Beverly Hills - the life and times of a great comic film director. Tonight on BBC2 Mel Brooks , creator of Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein , and The Producers,
167. 167 167. Have You Seen the Mona Lisa...?1981-11-03She is two-and-a-half feet tall and nearly 500 years old. She hangs in The Louvre behind plate-glass - an unsigned, undated portrait of a smiling woman, the most idolised and abuse
168. 168 168. Let Them Know We're Here1981-11-10When JOINT STOCK began their latest project four months ago, they had a writer but no script, actors but no roles. Borderline, by award-winning young play-wright Hanif Kureishi, fi
169. 169 169. A Pretty British Affair1981-11-17Only a short while ago Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were forgotten names in cinema history. Now, some of the greatest film-makers in the world are their ardent fans. Arena
170. 170 170. The Art of Radio Times AND The Eye of the 'Eye'1981-11-24This week, a total contrast in visual style-the art of RADIO TIMES and the jaundiced eye of Private Eye. The Art of Radio Times: Since 1923, the 'official organ' of the BBC has be
171. 171 171. A Tall Story: How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India1981-12-08Arena profiles one of the most dazzling literary talents of recent years - Saiman Rushdie , a storyteller extraordinary and winner of this year's Booker prize. Midnight's Children,
172. 172 172. Brixton to Barbados1981-12-15Reggae has its roots in Jamaica, and has found a home in Britain. But there are over 60 countries in the Caribbean, each with its own distinctive culture. Arena invited Linton Kwes
173. 173 173. Private Life of the Ford Cortina1982-01-19A ski run in Italy, a supermarket manager in Luton, a sandwich bar in London EC2, Arena opens the bonnet of the Ford Cortina, Britain's most popular, most stolen, and most misunder
174. 174 174. What Makes Rabbit Run?1982-01-26John Updike 's new book, Rabbit is Rich, is the third in the Rabbit series from the author of Rabbit, Run, Couples and The Coup. At 50, Updike is at the height of his powers and re
175. 175 175. Here They Kill People for It1982-02-02Osip Mandelstam, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, died in a prison camp somewhere in Siberia in the 1930s: no one knows precisely how or when. He was imprisoned not f
176. 176 176. True to Life?1982-02-09In a month of continuing controversy about the aims and methods of the ' documentary', Arena presents a classic film by one of the pioneers of the movement-Humphrey Jennings 's Lis
177. 177 177. Desert Island Discs1982-02-23' I love its homeliness. It conjures up the best in traditional British pleasure, like the great British breakfast. It's an honour to be asked ' (PAUL MCCARTNEY ) For the past 40 y
178. 178 178. Listen to Britain AND Housing Problems1982-03-09Presents two classic films from the early days of documentary. Featured in last month's True to Life? edition, they're shown complete for the first time on British television. List
179. 179 179. The Orson Welles Story: Part One1982-05-18Arena presents an exclusive film profile in two parts of one of the great legends of the cinema. With unprecedented frankness and detail. Orson Welles talks about his long and turb
180. 180 180. The Orson Welles Story: Part Two1982-05-21'I should never have stayed in movies. But it's a mistake I can't regret because it's like saying I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman and I did because I loved her. I'm i
181. 181 181. Mike Leigh Making Plays1982-09-04Mike Leigh is a dramatist in a tradition of his own, a fiercely original talent whose work and working methods have always provoked curiosity and contention as well as praise. He i
182. 182 182. A Genius Like Us1982-11-09In April 1967 at the peak of his career as a dramatist, Joe Orton was murdered by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell... Arena presents a documentary portrait of the author of Loot and En
183. 183 183. A Play for Bridport1982-11-16One of the most spectacular and unlikely theatre events of last year took place a long way from the West End of London in the small Dorset town of Bridport. The Poor Man's Friend,
184. 184 184. Upon Westminster Bridge1982-11-23It is commonly thought that poets are university-trained intellectuals who occasionally produce slim volumes about their personal feelings. This is not so with Michael Smith. Smith
185. 185 185. Three Steps to Heaven1982-11-30Classics like ' Summertime blues , 'C'mon everybody' and Three steps to heaven' made Eddie Cochran one of the all-time greats of rock 'n' roll. But for his tragic death, many thin
186. 186 186. Angus McBean1982-12-08For nearly 50 years everybody who was anybody in the British theatre passed before the lens of Angus McBean - Gielgud, Olivier, Thorndike, Coward ... He was known as the photograph
187. 187 187. Happy Days (Samuel Beckett Season)1982-12-11by Samuel Beckett Starring Billie Whitelaw With Leonard Fenton Arena presents the first programme in a Samuel Beckett Season providing a unique opportunity to see famous interpr
188. 188 188. Eh Joe (Samuel Beckett Season)1982-12-13Continues the Samuel Beckett season. Starring Jack MacGowran A rare opportunity to see an early television premiere. Recorded in 1966, tonight's presentation has only one visible
189. 189 189. Rockaby (Samuel Beckett Season)1982-12-14Arena continues the Samuel Beckett Season with a unique record of his new play Rockaby which has just opened at the National Theatre. Premiered in America, it was filmed in rehears
190. 190 190. Not I (Samuel Beckett Season)1982-12-15Continues the Samuel Beckett Season. In one of the most extraordinary pieces of modern drama Billie Whitelaw, Beckett's foremost interpreter, performs this astonishing tour de for
191. 191 191. Quad (Samuel Beckett Season)1982-12-16Continues the Samuel Beckett Season with a premiere. A play without words. Quad has a musical structure. It is a kind of canon or catch-a mysterious square-dance. Four hooded figu
192. 192 192. Krapp's Last Tape (Samuel Beckett Season)1982-12-17Concludes the Samuel Beckett Season. One of the best-known Beckett monologues starring its creator, the late Patrick Magee. Krapp, an old man, is alone with his memories and the
193. 193 193. Guernica: The Long Exile1982-12-28Last year a £13-million painting travelled in top secret from America to Spain. Next day it was headline news that Picasso's masterpiece ' Guernica ' had come home at last, after 4
194. 194 194. Classically Cuban: Alicia Alonso and the Cuban National Ballet1983-01-18Today, in post-revolutionary Cuba, under the benign patronage of Fidel Castro, classical ballet thrives. This unlikely success story is mainly due to the legendary figure of Alicia
195. 195 195. Hair1983-02-01Tonight Arena takes you on a tour of contemporary British heads, from the exotic to the mundane, from hot wax to Brylcreem. Blue rinse, quiff, mohican, short back and sides, dreadl
196. 196 196. Boulez Now1983-02-08Pierre Boulez, leading composer of the post-war generation, later a powerful and innovative conductor, is now the head of an extraordinary experimental studio in Paris. This huge u
197. 197 197. Jazz Juke Box1983-02-15George Melly presents films of the greatest names of swing jazz - but with a difference. Some were made for visual juke boxes which flourished in the early 40s, others are promotio
198. 198 198. Burroughs1983-02-22Widely regarded as one of the greatest literary figures of the century, William Burroughs has perfected a unique and terrifying vision of the world. He is, most notably, a savage s
199. 199 199. The Catherine Wheel1983-03-01Tonight Arena presents one of the most ambitious dance projects ever seen on television. The Catherine Wheel combines the talents of Twyla Tharp , one of America's most imaginativ
200. 200 200. Kurt Vonnegut1983-03-08Writing about his experiences as a war prisoner in Dresden in the novel Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut achieved a unique blend of dead-pan humour and shrewd observation of human f
201. 201 201. It's All True1983-05-09Tonight Arena takes an extraordinary journey through the video age. Video pirates, video trials, video weddings, video graves.... Fifty years ago it was just the dream of a scienc
202. 202 202. Luis Bunuel1983-08-19The great Luis Bunuel died last month. Born in 1900, he was undisputably one of the outstanding creative figures of the 20th century. Tonight Gavin Millar introduces a ten-week sea
203. 203 203. Bette Davis - The Benevolent Volcano1983-11-02Dear boy, you are out of your mind, this woman will annihilate you, she will grind you to a fine powder and blow you away ... Director Joseph Mankiewicz recalls the warning he was
204. 204 204. Anthony Powell - An Invitation to the Dance1983-11-09Anthony Powell's 12-volume epic, A Dance to the Music of Time, is widely regarded as the most formidable single work of British fiction since the war. It is also largely entertaini
205. 205 205. The Ghost Writer1983-11-12Starring Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker from the novel by Philip Roth with Mark Linn Baker, Paulette Smit 'You're not so nice and polite in your fiction. You're a different person.
206. 206 206. Jazz Juke-Box II1983-11-23Following the success of Jazz Juke-Box I, George Melly presents another selection of jazz shorts and ' soundies ' - the delightful films made for visual juke-boxes in the early 40s
207. 207 207. Roman Vishniac1983-11-30Roman Vishniac is a Russian Jew born in St Petersburg in 1897. His striking images of life in the Jewish ghettos - taken with a concealed camera just before the last war - are extr
208. 208 208. Classic British Documentaries1983-12-07Arena shows three film classics from the early years of British documentary, which began 50 years ago.
209. 209 209. The GPO Story1983-12-14The GPO Film Unit-50 years old this year-went where no Hollywood film studio would dare to go in 1933. Down the mines, across the Alps, through the storms of the North Sea ... they
210. 210 210. The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert1983-12-23An Arena special Last September at the Royal Albert Hall Don and Phil Everly performed together for the first time in ten years. The concert was the popular music event of the yea
211. 211 211. George Orwell 1: Such Such Were the Joys1983-12-29George Orwell is one of the greatest writers England has produced. Tonight and for the next four nights Arena presents a unique full-scale portrait of this remarkable man, filmed i
212. 212 212. George Orwell 2: The Road to Wigan Pier1983-12-30Tonight's episode of the five-part Arena biography tells the story of Orwell's marriage to Eileen O'Shaughnessy , his growing political awareness and retraces what was to be the mo
213. 213 213. George Orwell 3: Homage to Catalonia1984-01-02Orwell, like many of his generation, enlisted to fight on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Filmed in Barcelona and on the Huesca front, where he fought, tonight's film
214. 214 214. George Orwell 4: The Lion and the Unicorn1984-01-03For a brief period after the Spanish Civil War, Orwell was a revolutionary socialist, violently opposed to the coming war with Germany. Tonight's film shows his sudden emergence as
215. 215 215. George Orwell 4: Nineteen Eighty-four1984-01-04The last in this series of Arena films about the life and work of George Orwell begins with the tragic death of his wife Eileen in March 1945. Overcome with grief at his bereavemen
216. 216 216. Say Amen Someone1984-02-04Tonight's Arena Special tells the extraordinary story of two of the legendary figures of American 'gospel' -the music whose emotional impact and burning conviction lie at the heart
217. 217 217. Four Rooms1984-02-21ANTHONY CARO: 'I wanted to play games with our sense of space ... you experience this room with the eyes and the body too.' HOWARD HODGKIN: 'I tried to evoke a sense of romantic l
218. 218 218. The Theatre of Dario Fo1984-02-28Dario Fo is unique in world theatre. Playwright, actor, clown, teacher and philosopher, he is an international celebrity with two West-End smash hits to his credit - Can Pay? Won't
219. 219 219. Sunset People1984-03-03Tonight Arena takes a journey down one of the best known streets in the world. Sunset Boulevard stretches 27 miles from Los Angeles' Chinatown all the way to the ocean, a ride made
220. 220 220. The Caravaggio Conspiracy1984-03-06On 29 June 1982 a man called John Blake appeared mysteriously bidding in the major auction houses of London and New York. He was in reality the Sunday Times journalist, Peter Watso
221. 221 221. Between Dreaming and Waking1984-03-13David Inshaw belongs to a great tradition of English Romantic Painting - the tradition of Stanley Spencer, Samuel Palmer and the Pre-Raphelites. His most famous painting 'The Badmi
222. 222 222. Ken Russell 's Elgar1984-03-20Tonight, in the anniversary year of Edward Elgar 's death, Arena plays host to KEN RUSSELL 'S classic music documentary. Made in 1962 for the 100th edition of the arts magazine Mon
223. 223 223. Jerry Lee Lewis1984-03-27For the first time on British television, Arena presents a concert by this great legend of rock n roll. Jerry Lee Lewis doesn't sound like anybody else - the voice, the piano and t
224. 224 224. True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist1984-04-03Breyten Breytenbach writes about being an Afrikaner. His poetry was taught in schools and his paintings greatly admired. But in 1975 Breytenbach, living in self-imposed exile in Pa
225. 225 225. My Dinner with Louis1984-05-06Tonight Arena profiles the French film director Louis Malle. Malle is a director who has never let himself be tied down to one style of film making. The Lovers, with Jeanne Moreau
226. 226 226. Milan Kundera- Laughter and Forgetting1984-05-19From the vantage point of his Paris flat, the Czech writer Milan Kundera still obsessively contemplates Prague, the city he was forced to leave nine years ago when, silenced by the
227. 227 227. A Tribute to Joseph Losey1984-07-07American-born writer and director Joseph Losey died last month in London. He made his home in England in 1952 when he was hounded out of America after the Communist witch-hunt. To
228. 228 228. Beat This! A Hip Hop History1984-07-12Tonight Arena presents a musical entertainment set in the streets of New York City, an epic rap which will tap the roots of Hip Hop.... the true story of the most influential popul
229. 229 229. The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience1984-11-02Taught to sing from their earliest years, the brothers were raised in a unique cross-current of musical influences, from Appalachian harmony duos to black country blues singers. Th
230. 230 230. Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day1984-11-09Tonight Arena presents the first film portrait of the greatest of all the jazz singers. Billie Holiday's tragic story, from her traumatic childhood in Baltimore to her premature de
231. 231 231. Eubie Blake1984-11-10The legendary Eubie Blake 's career as a ragtime pianist and composer began in 1883. Sadly last year, five days after his 100th birthday he died. This short tribute includes one of
232. 232 232. Francis Bacon1984-11-16To mark his 75th birthday, Arena presents this exclusive film portrait of the great British painter, Francis Bacon. Despite his world-wide fame, Bacon remains one of the most cont
233. 233 233. We Don't Like Your House Either!1984-11-23This week: a portrait of one of the most individual architectural talents America has produced. Bruce Goff discovered his vocation as a child in Tulsa, Oklahoma, drawing cathedrals
234. 234 234. Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense: The Music of Fela Kuti1984-11-30Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is the most popular and controversial musician ever to come out of Africa. Born in Nigeria 47 years ago, he has dominated the African musical scene since the ea
235. 235 235. After the Rehearsal1984-12-07Arena presents the British premiere of Ingmar Bergman 's new film After the Rehearsal. Written and directed by Bergman last year soon after completing Fanny and Alexander, it conti
236. 236 236. What's Cuba Playing At?1984-12-21In the 25th anniversary year of the Revolution, Arena traces the Afro-Spanish roots of Cuba's rich musical history. If, for you, the rumba still means Come Dancing, then it's time
237. 237 237. Music of the other Americas1984-12-22Every November musicians from all over Latin America come to take part in the international music festival at Varadero in Cuba. For five days bands from all the 'other' Americas vi
238. 238 238. Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden1984-12-26For many Luciano Pavarotti is the world's greatest tenor - certainly his place is assured among the legends of Grand Opera. In New York on 16 August, he Performed before 20,000 Pe
239. 239 239. My Son the Novelist1985-02-18Howard Jacobson the eldest son of MAX JACOBSON the Manchester conjuror, made a late but successful start in the world of fiction. At the age of 41 he published Coming from Behind a
240. 240 240. Painting for Pleasure ... and Profit: Five Artists of the 80s1985-02-25The artists Julian Schnabel , Markus Lupertz , Sandro Chia , Francesco Clemente and Georg Baselitz command some of the highest prices on today's booming art market. Their painting
241. 241 241. Marcel Carne1985-02-27Arena this week presents a profile of the man many would consider the greatest living French film director. It introduces a BBC2 season of five of the masterpieces he made with the
242. 242 242. From an Immigrant's Notebook: Karen Blixen in Africa1985-03-11Karen Blixen's voyage to Africa in 1913 was a journey away from the 20th century. Kenya was then a semi-feudal society, a land of Masai and Kikuyu, teeming with game. In 1931 she
243. 243 243. How Glorious is the Garden?1985-03-18Tonight Arena and Newsnight join forces to mount a major studio debate between the embattled factions of the arts world. 'The Glory of the Garden' was the Arts Council's blueprint
244. 244 244. Old Kent Road1985-03-25From Chaucer's pilgrims to inter-continental juggernauts, generations of travellers have taken this historical route from Dover to the old City of London. It has become part of Lon
245. 245 245. Ligmalion1985-04-08A Musical for the 80s starring Tim Curry, Sting, Alexei Sayle, Gary Glitter and introducing Jason Carter To lig. verb. To gain something for nothing by wit and ingenuity. Young G
246. 246 246. Them and Uz: A film about Tony Harrison1985-04-15Tony Harrison is the son of a baker, and his poetry relishes, and mourns for the class he comes from. His subjects are sex, love, politics, class warfare, death, all the rituals an
247. 247 247. Marc Chagall1985-04-22One of the greatest masters of 20th-century painting died last month at the age of 97. This filmed tribute contains the last interview given by Chagall and charts his life and work
248. 248 248. Watch Me Move...1985-04-29'America gave to the world two original art forms: one was jazz, the other was full character animation' (Chuck Jones) In 1908, the comic strip artist Winsor McCay brought to life
249. 249 249. Hugh Masekela: The African Ambassador1985-05-06Hugh Masekela 's career as a musician has been dominated by his determination to take the music of black South Africans to the rest of the world. His music is a fusion of sophistic
250. 250 250. The Theatre of Robert Wilson1985-07-25Robert Wilson is one of the most revered and controversial talents in contemporary theatre. He first came to prominence in the New York avant garde of the 60s and 70s with a series
251. 251 251. Blues Night: Introduction1985-07-27Tonight Arena presents a cornucopia of the blues from the raw sounds of the Mississippi Delta to the jazz and rock 'n' roll that blues gave birth to. As a crowning delight, the eve
252. 252 252. Blues Night: Sonny Boy Williamson Sings1985-07-27Blues Night presents rare footage of the harmonica blues player Sonny Boy Williamson, who gave B.B. King his big break in 1948. ‘He was on the radio doing live performances when I
253. 253 253. Blues Night: B.B. King Speaks1985-07-27John Walters talks to B.B. King - aided by his guitar Lucille - about his extraordinary life, from a childhood picking cotton in Mississippi to worldwide stardom.
254. 254 254. Blues Night: Chicago Blues1985-07-27Harley Cokliss’ classic blues documentary includes performances by Muddy Waters, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, and shows how the tough urban music of Chicago developed out of the ori
255. 255 255. Blues Night: Blind John Davis1985-07-28The great Chicago broadcaster and journalist Studs Terkel and pianist Blind John Davis meet in a downtown bar to discuss and play the blues. This interview was shot for "Omnibus: S
256. 256 256. Blues Night: Blues Medley1985-07-28This medley of the blues features Fred McDowell, Thomas 'Georgia Tom' Dorsey, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Huddie Ledbetter - better known as 'Lead Belly' - performs 'Pick a Ba
257. 257 257. Blues Night: Big Bill Blues1985-07-28Hard blues meets film noir as Big Bill Broonzy sings and plays in a Belgian nightclub back in the 1950s.
258. 258 258. Buddy Holly1985-09-12An Arena Special. Lubbock is a small town lost in the great plains of west Texas. Her most famous son, Buddy Holly , changed the face of popular music. Tonight Holly is remembere
259. 259 259. Saint Genet1985-11-12Tonight Arena presents a unique interview with one of the great figures of 20th-century literature, Jean Genet. His first novel, Our Lady of the Flowers, written in prison, moved
260. 260 260. The Accordion Strikes Back1985-11-19What do Charles Dickens , Count Leo Tolstoy , Barry Manilow and James Anderton , Chief Constable of Manchester, have in common? A love of the accordion. Tonight Arena investigates
261. 261 261. The Cinema of Francesco Rosi1985-11-26Francesco Rosi is one of the foremost figures in post-war Italian cinema. His films have an epic sweep covering Mafia crime, political corruption and economic mismanagement in Ital
262. 262 262. The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima1985-12-03Yukio Mishima was one of the outstanding writers of his generation. Nominated three times for the Nobel Prize, he was the author of 40 novels and 18 plays. But his legend rests les
263. 263 263. The Apollo Story: part 11985-12-10The list of artists who have performed at Harlem's Apollo Theater reads like a Who's Who of black American entertainment. No black performer, from Sammy Davis Jr to Charlie Parker,
264. 264 264. The Apollo Story: part 21985-12-17Harlem's Apollo Theater has been the ultimate testing ground for every black American performer from Duke Ellington to Michael Jackson. Tonight Arena continues its celebration of
265. 265 265. Tosca's Kiss1986-01-08Casa Verdi is a rambling mansion in the city of Milan, inhabited by an extraordinary and captivating group of people. Once it belonged to the composer Giuseppe Verdi : now it has b
266. 266 266. The New Babylon1986-01-11Arena presents the first television showing of a rare and extraordinary classic of the silent cinema, with an original music score by Dimitri Shostakovich. Directors GRIGORI KOZIN
267. 267 267. Tango Mio1986-01-18That most erotic and mysterious of dances, the tango, came to life in the suburbs and backstreets of Buenos Aires. This Arena Special traces its colourful and bizarre life story, t
268. 268 268. Cinderella1986-01-21From its origins in ninth-century China to its modern incarnation as a Christmas pantomime, Cinderella has endured as one of the best-loved fairytales. But what has made this fable
269. 269 269. The Journey Man1986-01-28Behind the quiet, gentlemanly exterior of Norman Lewis lies the acute Perception of one of Britain's foremost travel writers and investigative journalists. His fascinating accounts
270. 270 270. Go-Go in Washington DC1986-02-04The home of the White House, the Pentagon and the President is also the home of the most exciting soul scene of the 1980s. The raw power of the go-go beat has emerged within a ston
271. 271 271. Marguerite Yourcenar1986-02-11Novelist, poet, essayist and the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise, Marguerite Youreenar lives and writes on her island refuge off the coast of Maine. Her work ra
272. 272 272. Louise Brooks1986-02-18The American film actress Louise Brooks, who died last summer, was one of the most celebrated beauties in the history of the cinema. Her performance as unrepentant pleasure-seeker
273. 273 273. Kurosawa1986-03-04In 1950 the Grand Prix of the prestigious Venice Film Festival went quite unexpectedly to a Japanese film. It was called Rashomon and the director was Akira Kurosawa. In the years
274. 274 274. Two Painters Amazed1986-03-11Critical acclaim for a group of recent art school graduates has put Scottish art, and Glasgow in particular, firmly on the international map. Two people at the forefront of this u
275. 275 275. Home Front1986-03-25Don McCullin 's powerful pictures of the horrors of war and deprivation have made him one of the world's most celebrated photographers. Now, after more than 20 years working exclu
276. 276 276. Caribbean Nights: Caribbean Journey1986-06-14Linton Kwesi Johnson takes a trip home to Jamaica and files a personal report on the long-standing relationship between the Caribbean and the mother country.
277. 277 277. Caribbean Nights: Medley1986-06-14Calypso from Trinidad's Mighty Bomber, dancing from Nicaragua, Jamaican Bob Marley's 'Could you be loved', Grenadian poet Abdul Malik, and the original 'Peanut vendor' by Rita Mont
278. 278 278. Caribbean Nights: Poetry1986-06-14The celebrated West Indian poet Derek Walcott joins Linton Kwesi Johnson and Guyanese prodigy Fred D'Aguiar to debate the range and impact of Caribbean poetry. With filmed reading
279. 279 279. Caribbean Nights: Ska1986-06-14Out of the archives, a skanking delight from Kingston's Sombrero Club, 1964. Featuring Prince Buster, Toots and the Maytals and Jimmy Cliff.
280. 280 280. Caribbean Nights: The Latin Caribbean1986-06-14Darcus Howe interviews leading Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes and Trinidadian historian John La Rose on the exotic and often bloody story of the Caribbean.
281. 281 281. Caribbean Nights: Maytime on the Mosquito Coast1986-06-14Despite the dangers and deprivations of war, the people of Bluefields, Nicaragua, still find time to do the Lambeth Walk and dance Maypole. Bluefields, on Nicaragua's east coast, i
282. 282 282. Caribbean Nights: Calypso and Carnival1986-06-15Fuentes, La Rose and Howe are joined in the studio by this year's Calypso King David Rudder who tells the true story of the 'Trinidad Trinity' - calypso, steel pan music and carniv
283. 283 283. Caribbean Nights: Whicker's Caribbean World1986-06-15From the BBC treasure chest, Alan Whicker explores the forgotten comers of the Caribbean, where he meets the Pocomaniacs of Jamaica, the Redlegs of Barbados, and the last of the Ca
284. 284 284. Caribbean Nights: Latin Sound1986-06-15Filmed on his recent visit to London, Panamanian salsa star and politician Ruben Blades talks to Linton Kwesi Johnson about Latin music today, ranging from established stars like C
285. 285 285. Caribbean Nights: God's Chillun1986-06-15A bedtime treat from 1936: the GPO Film Unit present the Caribbean through the words of W.H. Auden and the music of Benjamin Britten.
286. 286 286. Caribbean Nights Bob Marley1986-06-15A portrait of the man who made reggae known and appreciated all over the western world and who refused to abandon a message of personal and political liberation. Tonight's program
287. 287 287. Caribbean Nights: C.L.R. James's First Cricket XI1986-06-16Born in Trinidad in 1901, C.L.R. James came to England in the 1930s and was cricket correspondent for the Manchester Guardian. In this programme the author of the now classic book
288. 288 288. Caribbean Nights: Danzon1986-06-16In an old church in Havana, the Urfe brothers play Danzones, the first popular Cuban music to emerge from the blend of African and European traditions at the turn of the century. T
289. 289 289. Caribbean Nights: Rasta and the Ball1986-06-17According to reggae greats Bob Marley and Burning Spear, football and Rastafari are one and the same thing. In the last week of the World Cup Rasta and the Ball takes you to the Ma
290. 290 290. Caribbean Nights: Arturo Sandoval1986-06-18Cuban jazz is rarely heard over here. Tonight Arena redresses the balance with a performance by virtuoso trumpeter, Arturo Sandoval. Much admired by Dizzy Gillespie , he returns th
291. 291 291. Caribbean Nights: Kapo1986-06-19'I dreamt there were 72 angels, 72 trumpets, 72 vases of flowers - all things were 72. And then I saw directly the face of God himself. I was summoned to be an artist.' Bishop of h
292. 292 292. Henry Moore1986-09-07Speaking from Henry Moore's own studio in Perry Green, Hertfordshire, John Read shares his personal memories of the artist he filmed six times over 28 years.
293. 293 293. Salvador Dali1986-11-21'The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.' So says Salvador Dali one of the most famous painters in the world. Dali now lives as a recluse and has been vi
294. 294 294. The Life and Times of Don Luis Bunuel1986-11-22Following last night's story of Salvador Dali, Arena continues it's Spanish trilogy with this highly-acclaimed profile of the great film-maker Luis Bufiuel. From his collaboration
295. 295 295. The Spirit of Lorca1986-11-28Federico Garcia Lorca, perhaps the best-known and loved Spanish poet and dramatist of this century, was brutally executed at the age of 38 during the early days of the Spanish Civi
296. 296 296. Cambodian Witness1986-12-05When the Khmer Rouge invaded Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, they forced the entire population into the countryside where they were starved, beaten and worked to death on grandi
297. 297 297. Scarfe on Scarfe1986-12-12In this week's Arena Gerald Scarfe takes a long, hard look at himself. In his paintings and drawings he mercilessly pillories the powerful and the famous and yet in public he prese
298. 298 298. Night Moves1986-12-19Fifty years ago Basil Wright and Harry Watts' classic documentary "Night Mail" celebrated the role of the railways as the nation's distributor of goods, mail, food, and other essen
299. 299 299. Dylan1987-01-02Arena presents Bob Dylan, concentrating on his classic songs and backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in his first concert on British television in over a decade.
300. 300 300. Stand by Your Dream: Tammy Wynette1987-01-16Tonight Arena presents the moving story of the first lady of country music. At the age of 44 she's had 35 number one records, three Grammy awards, 50 albums, five husbands, four ch
301. 301 301. Night and Day1987-01-23Night and Day is a 24-hour journey through the streets of London spent in the company of two different and unusual writers. The day is introduced by Spectator columnist Jeffrey Be
302. 302 302. Dennis Potter1987-01-30'You can open your veins on television more easily than anywhere. It's the last stronghold for the individualist-writer.' Over the last 20 years Dennis Potter has established himse
303. 303 303. Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas1987-02-06Tonight Arena tells the story of one of the most extraordinary photographers of the 20th century. Martin Chambi , an Indian born into a peasant family in the remote Peruvian count
304. 304 304. The Confessions of Robert Crumb1987-02-13After Robert Crumb , comics could never be the same again. He came to fame in the mid 60s with characters such as Fritz the Cat and the archetypal guru Mr Natural , wicked satires
305. 305 305. Ruth, Roses and Revolver1987-02-20David Lynch , director of some of the strangest films in today's cinema, including Eraserhead and Elephant Man, guides us through the film works of a peerless group of artists - th
306. 306 306. A Brother with Perfect Timing1987-02-27Abdullah Ibrahim formerly Dollar Brand, pianist, composer, arranger, was bom in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1934. When Duke Ellington heard him in 1965 he was so impressed that he
307. 307 307. Tarkovsky's Cinema1987-03-13In 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 's remarkable career in the cinema received the accolade of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It sealed his reputation in the west as Russia's gr
308. 308 308. Putting Ourselves in the Picture1987-03-20Jo Spence 's photography defies definition - her work appears in community spaces as well as grand galleries. It deals with social problems, sexuality, myth and power. Tonight's Ar
309. 309 309. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?1987-03-27What do the following have in common? Maria von Trapp, whose story became "The Sound of Music"; Bob Guccione, the editor of Penthouse; Martin Scorsese, the director of "The Color o
310. 310 310. Bayan Ko Pilipinas1987-04-03(Lino Brocka 's Philippines) Lino Brocka is the most influential film director in the Philippines, and a leading figure in the civil rights movement. Throughout the period of marti
311. 311 311. Talk is Cheap1987-04-10What is a chat show - a forum for stimulating conversation and the exchange of ideas or just an economical way of filling the airwaves? Gus Macdonald becomes host for an evening a
312. 312 312. The Waugh Trilogy: Bright Young Thing1987-04-18Twenty-one years after his death Evelyn Waugh looms larger than ever over the English literary scene. In the course of three programmes Arena uses the testimony of his friends and
313. 313 313. The Waugh Trilogy: Mayfair and the Jungle1987-04-19The second of three programmes looks at Evelyn Waugh 's most productive period as a novelist, journalist, travel-writer and man of action. His exotic journeys from the coronation o
314. 314 314. The Waugh Trilogy: An Englishman's Home1987-04-20Last of three programmes. When Waugh died on Easter Sunday 21 years ago his friend Graham Greene felt 'as if one's commanding officer were dead'. During his last 20 years he retre
315. 315 315. German Festival: Joseph Beuys1987-06-06Joseph Beuys was one of the most prominent and controversial German artists of the past 30 years. Sculptor, performance artist, teacher and maverick politician - when he died last
316. 316 316. ScreenPlay: Cariani and the Courtesans1987-08-05by Leslie Megahey A story of intrigue and romance in 16th-century Venice. Starring Paul McGann, Simon Callow, Michael Gough, Diana Quick When Cariani the painter falls in love w
317. 317 317. Revolutionary with a Paintbox1987-11-20The Arena season opens with a profile of Diego Rivera , considered to be the most famous painter in the history of Latin America, and also the most notorious. He was a Rabelaisian
318. 318 318. Invisible Ink1987-12-04For 200 years British writers have achieved great success with their accounts of life on the Indian subcontinent. Less well-known are the writings of those Indians who travelled to
319. 319 319. Of Cats and Mice1987-12-18Art Spiegelman is one of America's leading comic-strip artists. Earlier this year he created a stir with Maus, a novel in strip form. Maus tells of a young Jewish couple who are a
320. 320 320. Woody Guthrie1988-01-08he legend of Woody Guthrie - the rambling guitar player who discovered America from the roof of a freight train - was an inspiration to two decades of Americans, from the Weavers t
321. 321 321. The Dandy-Beano Story1988-01-15Tonight Arena presents, on the occasion of their 50th anniversaries, a tribute to those great British institutions, the Beano and the Dandy. In their pages, the Softie has fought
322. 322 322. Broadway - The Great White Way1988-01-22Broadway is one of the most famous streets in the world. Legendary for bright lights, musical comedy, and the dreams of stardom, the myths and cliches of the theatre have influence
323. 323 323. Ryszard Kapuscinski: Your Man Who is There1988-01-29The first of two programmes featuring the work of a major figure in contemporary literature and journalism. In three decades, reporting from Latin America, Africa and the Far East,
324. 324 324. The Emperor1988-02-05Arena presents JONATHAN MILLER 'S acclaimed production for the Royal Court Theatre of RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI's play. Adapted for the stage and television by MICHAEL HASTINGS and JON
325. 325 325. My Name Is Celia Cruz1988-02-12The Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz has been the most adored and dynamic singer in Latin America for more than four decades. Since she left Cuba at the time of the Revolution with her b
326. 326 326. All on a Mardi Gras Day Part One1988-02-16Today is Shrove Tuesday, in French, Mardi Gras , and tonight is the night before Lent. While the British celebrate with pancakes, the Latin world explodes in a riot of music and sp
327. 327 327. All on a Mardi Gras Day: Part Two1988-02-16Continued from BBC2. From the Toulouse Cafe in the heart of downtown New Orleans where the day's t festivities climax with the cream of New Orleans rhythm and blues. One last burs
328. 328 328. Kerouac1988-02-26The novelist and poet Jack Kerouac died in 1969, a chronic alcoholic, at the age of 47. He was already something of a legend, not simply for his style of writing but for the style
329. 329 329. An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 11988-03-04The flamenco of southern Spain is more than music and much more than an exhilarating dance for the tourists. It's the soul of a culture, and its roots go back to the 15th century w
330. 330 330. An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 21988-03-05The flamenco of southern Spain is more than music. It's the soul of a culture and its roots go back to the 15th century, when gypsies travelled to Spain via Asia and North Africa.
331. 331 331. Robert Mapplethorpe1988-03-18This month the National Portrait Gallery opens its doors to the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. As the epitome of New York style he is less celebrated for his portr
332. 332 332. The English Thoroughbred1988-03-25The English Thoroughbred In the late 17th century the fastest, most elegant racing machine known to man was developed by the English aristocracy. The English gentry crossed their
333. 333 333. Byrne About Byrne1988-04-01Each season Arena invites a distinguished figure in the arts to direct a film. This year's guest director is John Byrne, painter and author of Tutti Frutti. In this diverse and inv
334. 334 334. Rhythms of the World: Randy Travis at the Albert Hall1988-10-02Randy Travis is the hottest new singer on the country music scene today. In June of this year he played his first British concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Arena filmed him and ton
335. 335 335. Ten Green Bottles1988-11-25Arena's new season begins with a special anniversary edition and a chance to see again some classic moments from the past ten years. Dame Edna admits to keen enthusiasm for women
336. 336 336. Clint Eastwood: The Man with No Name.1988-12-02Dirty Harry and the other characters in the Eastwood repertory have dominated the box office for over 25 years. He has made over 40 films and directed 14 of them, invariably starri
337. 337 337. Moving Across the World on Horses1988-12-09Born in Sri Lanka in 1943, educated in Dulwich and now living in Canada, Michael Ondaatje has criss-crossed the world in a search for what he calls the 'unofficial story'. Ondaatje
338. 338 338. History Boys on the Rampage1988-12-16From Dundalk to Dungannon, Ballycastle to Belfast, Field Day, Ireland's foremost touring theatre company, journeys past checkpoints and critics with Brian Friel's controversial new
339. 339 339. The Unforgettable Nat King Cole1988-12-23When Nat King Cole died in 1965, the world lost its greatest ballad singer. Last year, 22 years after his death, When I Fall in Love reached number 4 in the British charts. This p
340. 340 340. Tales from Barcelona1989-01-06Award-winning director Jana Bokova presents a typically idiosyncratic portrait of Europe's most fashionable city. An equally eccentric and fascinating collection of characters offe
341. 341 341. Blackpool1989-01-13With more visitors than the whole of Greece and more holiday beds than Portugal, Blackpool is Europe's most successful holiday resort. Growing to prominence in the Industrial Revol
342. 342 342. The Tip of the Iceberg1989-01-27Breasts/bosoms/bust/boobs/bristols/knockers... we live in a breast-obsessed society and 'tits' are by no means the preserve of the tabloids; the symbolism of the breast is expresse
343. 343 343. Laurens van der Post and Albert Sample1989-02-03Arena presents two films by award-winning director Georg Troller , made for West German television's leading arts programme Personenbeschreibung. Sir Laurens van der Post is the s
344. 344 344. New York - The Secret African City1989-02-10eyond the familiar world of Wall Street and Madison Avenue, there is another New York, whose roots lie in West and Central Africa. Successive waves of newcomers of African descent
345. 345 345. Eugene Ionesco : the Joke's on Us1989-02-17The absurdity of life has been Eugene lonesco's theme and preoccupation since he wrote the first of his 33 plays and, alongside Beckett and Genet, created a revolution in the theat
346. 346 346. John Cassavetes1989-02-24Actor and director, John Cassavetes, who died earlier this month was one of the few truly independent movie-makers working out of Hollywood. In this tribute to an influential and i
347. 347 347. Power in the Blood1989-03-03Ten years ago, Vernon Oxford turned his back on the bright lights of Nashville and a life as a popular country singer, and gave himself to the Lord. Today, he is a gospel preacher
348. 348 348. The Old Brass Plate Rattle Test - the Englishman and his Jukebox1989-03-17Elton John's jukebox sold at Sotheby's for £16,000. It has come a long way since it left the Wurlitzer factory in 1942. It is the same with most jukeboxes; they once entertained ba
349. 349 349. Juke Box Jury1989-03-19Arena continues its centenary celebration of the jukebox with a special edition of one of the original pop music programmes. Juke Box Jury is 30 years old and was essential weeken
350. 350 350. Berthold Lubetkin1989-03-31Born in Georgia in 1901, Berthold Lubetkin is one of the most outstanding and influential architects in Britain. His life has spanned the Russian Revolution and two World Wars. Fin
351. 351 351. Heavy Metal1989-04-07Ever since its noisy birth out of the primitive fuzzboxes of the 1960s, heavy metal music has been maligned and misunderstood by public and critics alike. But, to its millions of f
352. 352 352. The Other Graham Greene1989-04-21For some 25 years the author Graham Greene found himself the victim of a bizarre masquerade. A man calling himself Graham Greene opened hotels in Jamaica, courted high society in t
353. 353 353. Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 1: A Traveller's Tale1989-10-22'Look at the clocks - it doesn't matter if they're wrong. Somewhere in the world the time is right.' A typical line from Slim Gaillard. He became a jazz legend, collaborating with
354. 354 354. Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 2: How High the Moon1989-10-29In 1938 jazz legend and international star Slim Gaillard went to Hollywood to appear in Hellzapoppin: and then war broke out. Gaillard became one of America's first black bomber pi
355. 355 355. Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 3: My Dinner with Dizzy1989-11-05This week Slim Gaillard cooks dinner for his old friend Dizzy Gillespie. They discuss the English language and their contributions to it — 'bebop' and 'Vout-o-reenee'. They also r
356. 356 356. Animal Night: Smashing Pigs1989-12-16Some people see the pig as representing dirt, sloth and obesity; others view it with affection. In this film we see them all: farmyard pigs, performing pigs, pigs as pets, piggy ba
357. 357 357. Animal Night: Sacred Elephant1989-12-16A film version of Heathcote Williams 's epic poem, an impassioned hymn of praise to one of nature's most magnificent creatures, and a lament at man's folly of hunting it to near ex
358. 358 358. Animal Night: Great Wildlife Presenters Through the Ages1989-12-16The animals in wildlife films have always been vying for attention with that eccentric breed - the animal presenter. This medley of classic clips of wildlife films from the last 50
359. 359 359. Animal Night: John Daniel the First1989-12-16In the 1920s a middle-aged spinster went to buy a yard of ribbon and came out with a baby gorilla. He was the first gorilla to survive captivity. His uncanny intelligence and vers
360. 360 360. Animal Night: A Day in the Life of Sam the Dog1989-12-16What does Sam get up to when he's left on his own all day? This verite portrait looks at an ordinary day in the mysterious life of a very ordinary dog.
361. 361 361. Animal Night: Animals on Trial1989-12-16Novelist Julian Bames, philosopher Nicholas Humphrey and French historian Dr Michel Rousseau help to uncover one of the most bizarre chapters in criminal history: the judicial pros
362. 362 362. Animal Night: The Animal Night Debate1989-12-16Speciesism, vivisection, vegetarianism, farming, sport, zoos, circuses and pets will be some of the topics discussed in a live debate chaired by Donald MacCormick at the Royal Inst
363. 363 363. 25 x 5: the Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones1989-12-27The phenomenal career of the Rolling Stones has taken them from being the bad boys of rock 'n' roll to becoming proteges of the establishment. They now tell their own story ... The
364. 364 364. Numbers1990-01-19So says Gregory Chaitin, one of the world's three leading mathematicians, addressing the camera from the deep recesses of the IBM building in Yorktown Heights, New York State. He c
365. 365 365. Oblomov1990-01-26Oblomov is a slob. Even Gorbachev is said to have denounced him from the podium: 'We must stamp out the Oblomovs from our society.' The lazy aristocrat of Goncharov's 19th-century
366. 366 366. Jerry Lee Lewis1990-02-02This is the story of 'the Killer', the ultimate wild man of rock, from his phenomenal success at the age of 20 with Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On to the present. After more than 30
367. 367 367. Roberto Rossellini1990-02-09The great Italian film director, who died in 1977, was the founder of 'neo-realism'. Following the international success of his films dealing with the Second World War - Rome, Op
368. 368 368. Next Time Dear God Please Choose Someone Else1990-02-23Traditional Jewish humour flourished in adversity. Religious persecution and life in the ghetto nurtured its own kind of bitter comedy which, in 20th-century America, has develope
369. 369 369. Salif Keita1990-03-02Salif Keita - the golden voice of Mali - is one of the first African world superstars. He can trace his lineage directly back more than 700 years to its founder, the warrior king
370. 370 370. Fred Zinnemann: A Director's Life1990-03-09Fred Zinnemann, best known for the classic western High Noon, has had a career in movies spanning 65 years. In an exclusive interview with Arena, Zinnemann talks about his life fro
371. 371 371. Spike and Company - Do It a Cappella1990-03-16Actor and director Spike Lee joins actress Debbie Allen on a journey in search of the perfect vocal performance. They travel through Brooklyn as different groups duel, jam and rehe
372. 372 372. Peggy and Her Playwrights1990-03-23Now in her 80s, Peggy Ramsay is the most powerful and unconventional play agent in Britain. She started her agency in the mid-50s in a converted brothel in the West End and has be
373. 373 373. The English Rose1990-03-30The term 'English rose' conjures up a variety of images which fall somewhere between the delicate pink roses of high summer and the fair complexion of a young girl. Either way, the
374. 374 374. Paris Is Burning1990-04-06They call themselves the 'Children'. By day they are cycle-messengers, assistants in department stores, prostitutes or unemployed; by night they are members of clubs or houses with
375. 375 375. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam1990-04-13On 4 July 1967, Private Raymond Griffiths was killed in Vietnam. He was 19 years old - the average age of US combat troops in the war. He was one of more than 30,000 American servi
376. 376 376. Havana1990-04-15Cuba's legendary capital, once a playground for the rich, has an extraordinary faded beauty with its grand colonial palaces decaying into crumbling tenements. Since the popular re
377. 377 377. The Princess1990-04-20Niccolo Machiavelli 's infamous The Prince is a short book about power - how to get it and how to hang on to it. But if 'he' were changed to 'she' throughout, would Machiavelli's m
378. 378 378. The Ten Commandments of Krzysztof Kieslowski1990-05-04Krzysztof Kieslowski is the foremost director to have emerged in Poland since Andrzej Wadja. His two most recent features, A Short Film about Killing and A Short Film about Love, s
379. 379 379. Le Paris Black1990-05-11Paris's love affair with the black world stretches from the Cubists' discovery of African sculpture at the beginning of the century to the present day appreciation of rap and Afric
380. 380 380. Kino Perestroika1990-05-18Tonight's programme looks at the Soviet cinema since perestroika and examines the work of some of its most important film directors who are working again after years of enforced si
381. 381 381. The Daily Worker Story1990-05-25When Lenin told the newly formed Communist Party of Great Britain that its survival depended on having a daily paper, he could not have forseen that after 60 years of heroic strugg
382. 382 382. Oooh Er, Missus! - The Frankie Howerd Story1990-06-01Considered by many to be our greatest living stand-up comedian, the incomparable Francis Alick Howerd holds a special place in the hearts of the British public. Born during a snow
383. 383 383. Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait1990-09-20This Arena Special celebrates the centenary of Dame Agatha Christie's birth with the first film biography of the world's most widely read author. Total sales of her crime novels ar
384. 384 384. The Fever1990-09-29A new musical, Township Fever, is about to open on Broadway. Written by Mbongeni Ngema , the co-author of Woza Albert , it is vibrant and funny, but also quite shocking and contro
385. 385 385. Food Night: Introduction1990-12-15Tonight Arena brings you an evening of short films and a debate devoted to that most universal of subjects, food. Spitting Image has created your hosts, Meat and Two Veg. From thei
386. 386 386. Food Night: Modern Food1990-12-15Today's hypermarket is an Aladdin's cave compared to the grocery store of 30 years ago. Food Night looks at the ever-increasing gulf between what appears on the supermarket shelf a
387. 387 387. Food Night: Great Moments in Food History1990-12-15A salute to four great thinkers. If Rossini had not preferred food to music there would have been no Tornados Rossini. If Nellie Melba had not become so fat through eating too ma
388. 388 388. Food Night: The Story of Food in 27 Minutes and 43 Seconds1990-12-15Food has had a part to play in religion, politics, science and war, and throughout history has underlined the social divide between prince and peasant. Today food remains as divisi
389. 389 389. Food Night: Good Manners1990-12-15Some lessons in manners from the silver screen - Five Easy Pieces, Tampopo, Oliver Twist and more.
390. 390 390. Food Night: What's Kosher?1990-12-15This film explores the application of kosher dietary laws which have helped to preserve the separate identity of the Jewish people.
391. 391 391. Food Night: The Last Supper1990-12-15Louisiana State Penitentiary recently released a list of the last meals ordered by prisoners about to be executed. One man, whose crime was shooting a grocery store attendant, requ
392. 392 392. Food Night: The Complete History of the Potato1990-12-15With the help of potato experts from all over the world Food Night pays homage to this nutritious, delicious, maligned and sometimes despised vegetable - the paradoxical potato.
393. 393 393. Food Night: I Just Happen to Have One Here I Made Earlier1990-12-15A chance to sample some favourites from the kitchens of such legends as Fanny Cradock, Zena Skinner and Delia Smith. Director Sarah Mortimer
394. 394 394. Food Night: Movable Feast - the Politics of Disgust1990-12-15Mealworms served in a cherry tomato, grasshoppers rolled in bacon - these are just a few of the nourishing dishes served up in this film which explores repulsion and revulsion in f
395. 395 395. Food Night: Eating for One1990-12-15Left to your own devices, what do you eat, when do you eat it and how much of it do you eat?
396. 396 396. Food Night: Fasting and Abstinence1990-12-15As Christmas approaches, time to contemplate self-denial.
397. 397 397. Food Night: Debate1990-12-15As the evening's climax, Arena assembles a forum of distinguished politicians, economists, nutritionists, moralists and senders and receivers of aid to debate the international pol
398. 398 398. Lifepulse - a Natural Thriller1990-12-28A spectacular musical celebration of life, capturing evolution in all its glorious diversity, and the rhythms of nature in all its beauty, delight, and horror. From the raging fur
399. 399 399. Miller Meets Mandela1991-01-18Nelson Mandela, since his release, has become one of the most famous people in the world. Everyone has heard of the leader, but Mandela the man remains an enigma. For the first tim
400. 400 400. Derek Jarman - a Portrait1991-01-25Derek Jarman is a uniquely British outsider: a painter, film-maker and a self-appointed enfant terrible with a paradoxical affection for tradition. He makes films as a painter or p
401. 401 401. Anselm Kiefer : Operation Sealion1991-02-01Kiefer is Germany's most controversial and reclusive artist. He is also its most successful. The millions his work commands in the auction houses and his popularity with collectors
402. 402 402. The Strange Story of Joe Meek1991-02-08On 3 February 1967, Joe Meek, composer of Telstar and pioneer independent producer, shot his landlady and then himself. With Humphrey Lyttelton, Screaming Lord Sutch, Heinz, Jonath
403. 403 403. The Other Roci1991-02-22Rocky is the name of American artist Robert Rauschenberg's pet turtle. It is also the name of an epic and visionary project which in the last eight years has taken Rauschenberg aro
404. 404 404. Caroline 199 - A Pirate's Tale1991-03-01December 1990: a rusty ship drifts silently in the North Sea. As the Government and its Broadcasting Bill close in for the kill, Radio Caroline could be silenced for ever. For Rona
405. 405 405. Staring at the Ceiling1991-03-08This profile of Keith Waterhouse follows him through his hectic diary. As a columnist for the Daily Mail he reports from the Conservative conference in Bournemouth and the Labour c
406. 406 406. Three Irish Writers1991-03-15It has been said that the English hoard words like misers and the Irish spend them like sailors. Tonight's Arena presents three great Irish masters of the English language, Flann O
407. 407 407. One Irish Rover1991-03-16For more than two decades, Van Morrison has been fusing different musical influences, creating a style of his own. In this programme he duets with Bob Dylan and plays harmonica wit
408. 408 408. The Importance of Being Oscar1991-03-17This one-man show based on the life of Oscar Wilde was the jewel in the crown for Irish actor Michael MacLiammoir 's career. The programme was first shown on St Patrick's Day 1964
409. 409 409. The Other1991-03-22Roci Rocky is the name of American artist Robert Rauschenberg 's pet turtle. It is also the name of an epic and visionary project which in the last eight years has taken Rauschenbe
410. 410 410. Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon1991-04-05When Kenneth Anger first published his classic expose of Hollywood's best-kept secrets and scandals, it was immediately banned. The underground film-maker struck a raw nerve in 'ti
411. 411 411. Elmore Leonard 's Criminal Records1991-04-12Top US crime writer Elmore Leonard 's street-wise characters range from violent hoodlums in and around Detroit to low-life hustlers on Florida's Gold Coast. Arena travels with him
412. 412 412. The Human Face1991-04-19In the last of the current series of Arena, musical performance artist Laurie Anderson presents an examination of mankind's obsession with its own image. For thousands of years art
413. 413 413. Texas Saturday Night1991-04-24A show as big as the Lone Star State this is an epic voyage through the wildest state in the union - from the honkytonks and dancehalls to the hill country and burning deserts; fro
414. 414 414. The Grass Arena1992-01-19Brutalised at home and school, John Healy drinks a promising boxing career into the "grass arena" - the savage community of vagrant alcoholics. He drifts towards certain death, unt
415. 415 415. Billy, How Did You Do It? 11992-01-23The first of a special three-part presentation in which American film director Billy Wilder discusses his career with German film maker Volker Schlondorff. From Marlene Dietrich to
416. 416 416. Billy, How Did You Do It? 21992-01-24Second of three in-depth conversations with the film director and writer Billy Wilder. He recalls his memories of the great Hollywood stars - "Mae West walked out of the door all w
417. 417 417. Billy, How Did You Do It? 31992-01-25Last of a special three-part presentation in which American director Billy Wilder discusses his career. He remembers working with Marilyn Monroe on Some Like It Hot "With Monroe
418. 418 418. Masters of the Canvas1992-01-31When pop artist Peter Blake confessed in a magazine article that his fantasy was to be the mysterious masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki, who never speaks and never removes his mask, l
419. 419 419. Oliver Stone1992-02-07A portrait of the controversial American film director, Oliver Stone, whose work often arouses the fiercest passions in both supporters and critics. In a revealing interview, Stone
420. 420 420. Fatwa1992-02-14On 14 February 1989 Salman Rushdie was sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Tonight, on the third anniversary of the fatwa, a gathering of international writers and artist
421. 421 421. Six Degrees of Separation: a New York Tale1992-02-21In 1983, David Hampton was arrested for pretending to be the son of actor Sidney Poitier and conning his way into the homes of some of New York's most powerful and influential fami
422. 422 422. The Incredible Case of Comrade1992-02-28Rockstar Dean Read was the biggest rock star the communist world had ever seen. Virtually unknown in his native America, the "Red Sinatra" was the first pop musician Mikhail Gorbac
423. 423 423. Croatia - the Artists' War1992-03-06This film asks how the culture of a country survives amid gunfire. Ivan Rabuzin , the 71-year-old Croatian artist, says his paintings stand as accusations. "They show an image of e
424. 424 424. Otto Dix : a Tale of Two Germanies1992-03-13"I'll either be famous or infamous," declared the controversial German painter who died in 1969. His subjects range from tranquil landscapes to frenzied sex murders, from brutalise
425. 425 425. Chi-Chi the Panda1992-03-20Refused entry to America from China in 1958 because of the embargo on "communist goods", the giant panda Chi-Chi came to London Zoo - a constant object of media attention and publi
426. 426 426. Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up1992-03-27Tales of the City first appeared in the 70s as a daily column in the San Francisco Chronicle. Armistead Maupin's stories about life in San Francisco as seen through the eyes of a
427. 427 427. Last Supper - Frank on Frank1992-04-03A self-portrait of photographer and film maker Robert Frank. Often called the "eyes of the Beats", Frank's work spans 45 years from his influential book of photographs The America
428. 428 428. A Spanish Odyssey - a Portrait of Javier Mariscal1992-04-10Javier Mariscal is an artist who cannot be categorised - a designer who thinks a Camel cigarette packet has as much value as a Picasso. Phillipe Starck , the doyen of the design w
429. 429 429. An Argentinian Journey: 1: The Gaucho and the Pampas1992-04-17Three films which take a journey through the rich musical heritage of Argentina. The story begins just south of Buenos Aires in the Pampas. This is the land of the gaucho - the so
430. 430 430. An Argentinian Journey: 2: Zamba, Chacarera and Chamame1992-04-18Three films which take a journey through the rich musical heritage of Argentina. In the vast regions from the plains of the Pampas to the provinces of the north, three distinct st
431. 431 431. An Argentinian Journey: 3: Pacha Mama - Sacred Land1992-04-19The Calchaquies valleys in the Andes and the Humahuaca canyon form the most underdeveloped and remote region in Argentina, with traditions going back beyond the Inca conquest. The
432. 432 432. Sportswriter: the Fight, the Match and the Race1992-07-18Few activities in modern life can rival sport for creating excitement, passion and commitment. Arena takes a look at how the tensions and glories of sporting life are turned into p
433. 433 433. Linda McCartney, behind the Lens1992-12-26In her first television profile, Linda McCartney talks about her life in photography and, with husband Paul, about the difficulties of being married to a Beatle and how she has cop
434. 434 434. The Graham Green Trilogy: England Made Me (1904-39)1993-01-08Arena's 1993 season opens with this three-part exploration of the life and work of the enigmatic writer. Greene's obsessions with the seedy world of love, sex, betrayal, disloyalty
435. 435 435. The Graham Greene Trilogy: The Dangerous Edge (1940-60)1993-01-09Disloyalty, secrecy and spying fascinated Greene both in his work and in his private life. Tonight's film charts the hidden years of his life when his marriage broke down and he be
436. 436 436. The Graham Greene Trilogy: A World of My Own (1961-91)1993-01-10Last of the biographical films, with extracts read by Sir Alec Guinness. A World of My Own (1961-91) Passionately promoting the link between Catholicism and communism, defending K
437. 437 437. On the Road with Boggs1993-01-15In the 1980s American artist J S G Boggs stunned the art world by holding an exhibition of banknotes, drawn by himself. In one go, he broke moral, artistic and legal taboos-counter
438. 438 438. The Grateful and the Dead1993-01-22The story of the unlikely and unpublicised relationship between a 60s American rock band and some of Britain's little-known orchestral composers. Once the icons of the San Francisc
439. 439 439. A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie1993-01-29Elder statesman of jazz and a co-founder of the style that became bebop in the 40s, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie will be remembered by many as the trumpet player with ballooning ch
440. 440 440. Larry Kramer1993-01-05One of the world's leading figures in the battle against Aids is not a doctor, scientist or politician, but a writer - Larry Kramer - who says: "Aids has given me my life's work."
441. 441 441. Edward Said: the Idea of Empire1993-02-12Palestinian writer, academic and exile, Edward W Said takes a journey into the worlds of history, literature, ideas and imagination to explain how he wrote his most recent book, Cu
442. 442 442. The Last Soviet Citizen1993-02-19For three decades the Soviet Union's obsession with space stirred the soul of the nation like a secular religion - from the first space star Yuri Gagarin to the sad saga of cosmon
443. 443 443. Derek Walcott1993-02-20An interview with the poet who last December won the Nobel prize for literature, and whose current novel-length poem has caused him to be dubbed the "Homer of the Caribbean". He t
444. 444 444. Zhang Yimou1993-03-12One of China's most successful film directors, Zhang Yimou , talks about his life, his work, and his views on China. The stunning photography and quintessential "Chineseness" of hi
445. 445 445. Philip Roth1993-03-19To mark his 60th birthday, and the publication of his new book Operation Shylock, Philip Roth breaks his long silence and talks to Arena about his life, books, and some of the link
446. 446 446. Only the Names Have Been Changed1993-03-26To the innocent reader, the characters in a work of fiction are the author's inventions. To those in the know, it is often more complicated. Arena investigates the effect novels ca
447. 447 447. Weegee1993-04-02Chronicling New York low and high life, Weegee's photographs have often shocked the world. His wife, Wilma Wilcox , talks about the man behind the myth.
448. 448 448. Duchamp's Fountain1993-04-02In 1917, Marcel Duchamp entered a white porcelain object in a New York exhibition. it was a urinal. Arena unearths the origins of this extraordinary story with an account from Duch
449. 449 449. Edgar Reitz: Return to Heimat1993-04-12An Arena special which documents the making of Reitz's second great German epic, The Second Heimat, which begins on BBC2 next Saturday. When Jewish writer Carole Angier watched the
450. 450 450. Tales Of Rock And Roll: Peggy Sue1993-04-17The arts series returns with four films tracing the origins of classic rock songs. The inspiration behind Buddy Holly's famous song - Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham - now runs a drainag
451. 451 451. Not a Bad Girl1993-04-18Brenda Fassie is South Africa's answer to Madonna. A black singer for black people, she is streetwise, outrageous and aiming to be an international star. With her new album I'm Not
452. 452 452. Heartbreak Hotel1993-04-24The second documentary in this Arena series telling the true stories behind classic rock songs is devoted to Elvis Presley's first million-selling release, Heartbreak Hotel. This f
453. 453 453. Walk on the Wild Side1993-05-01All the characters named in the song were real people who frequented Andy Warhol's studio in the late 60s. Trans-sexual Holly, and Jackie and Candy, who were transvestites, starred
454. 454 454. Highway 61 Revisited1993-05-08Last programme in the Arena series tracing the origins of classic rock songs. This musical journey travels the famous highway that has inspired successive generations of musicians
455. 455 455. Arena: Radio Night: Introduction1993-12-18Your television and radio are cast as personalities (played by Peter Cook and Josie Lawrence) in this night of themed programmes showing how the two media have competed over the ye
456. 456 456. Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio: First: the Infant.1993-12-18Ian McKellen ruminates on the distinct eras of radio broadcasting, characterised as Shakespeare's seven ages of man, with the aid of Professor Asa Briggs.
457. 457 457. Radio Night: TV Talk, Radio Rabbit What does the voice reveal?1993-12-18
458. 458 458. Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 2: The Schoolboy.1993-12-18
459. 459 459. Radio Night: Heard But Not Seen1993-12-18Alistair Cooke, whose weekly epistle has been broadcast on radio since 1946, explains why it is the best medium for him.
460. 460 460. Radio Night: Back to Square One1993-12-18The story of early radio's method of broadcasting live football, referring to a numbered grid - published in the Radio Times - on which listeners followed the action.
461. 461 461. Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 3: The Lover.1993-12-18
462. 462 462. Radio Night: Sunday Dinner1993-12-18Family Sunday meals conjure up for many Family Favourites, Round the Home and The Billy Cotton Band Show.
463. 463 463. Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 4: The Soldier.1993-12-18
464. 464 464. Radio Night: Pirates1993-12-31On just one estate in east London there are five pirate stations, battling to stay on air.
465. 465 465. Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 5: The Judge.1993-12-18
466. 466 466. Radio Night: TV Theft, Radio Rip-Off1993-12-18Does TV steal radio's best comedy ideas? Included in the debate are Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Armando Iannucci and the voice of Spike Milligan.
467. 467 467. Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 6: The Old Man.1993-12-18
468. 468 468. Radio Night: The Spot FX Man1993-12-18Harold Listings, a frustrated radio technician, takes revenge.
469. 469 469. Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 7: Senility.1993-12-18
470. 470 470. Radio Night: It's Life, Jim1993-12-18Nasa scientists are using giant radio antennae to pick up communications from ET.
471. 471 471. Radio Night: The Time Signal1993-12-18Dr Carl Dolmetsch finds out why the pips changed pitch.
472. 472 472. Radio Night: The Two Voyages of Donald Crowhurst1993-12-18The tragic story of the lone yachtsman and his radio.
473. 473 473. Radio Night: The Shipping Forecast1993-12-19Live on TV for the first time, Fisher, German Bight, Dogger.
474. 474 474. The Next Voice You Hear1993-12-19Concluding BBC2's Arena Radio Night, a film drama starring James Whitmore, Nancy Davis (later Reagan). Joe and Mary Smith are shaken one night when they hear what seems to be the
475. 475 475. In Search of Oz1994-01-29An exploration of the phenomenal popularity of L Frank Baum 's famous children's story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900. About 20 film versions of the story have been ma
476. 476 476. Who Is Vladimir Pozner?1994-02-05In the 1980s Vladimir Pozner , once dubbed "Ivan the Telegenic", became the second most celebrated communist in the west. Carrying Gorbachev's message to western television screens
477. 477 477. The Dark Side of Black1994-02-12The new stars of ragga and gangster rap - Shabba Ranks, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, Buju Banton - have become as notorious as they are successful. They command huge audiences and recor
478. 478 478. The Ring - a South London Tale1994-02-26For centuries, bare-knuckle boxing has been going on behind closed doors. Nigel Finch's unusual film investigates this illegal activity by following one hopeful as he prepares for
479. 479 479. Glitterbug1994-03-05During the 1970s and 1980s Derekjarman kept a Super-8 film diary, chronicling the cultural high life and low life of London. The footage ranges from William Burroughs reading aloud
480. 480 480. Theatre without Actors1994-03-12In 1960 an American film called Primary changed the notion of what a documentary could be, using techniques never before seen on TV. It was made by Robert Drew , whose role in the
481. 481 481. Kalashnikov1994-03-19Seventy million Kalashnikov (or AK-47) guns are scattered across the world. It was the Russians' Cold War weapon and is still the first choice of terrorists, guerrillas and mercena
482. 482 482. Trouble Man - the Last Years of Marvin Gaye1994-03-26On 1 April 1984 former Motown star Marvin Gaye provoked his father once too often, and was shot dead in his bedroom. It was the tragic finale to an extraordinary series of events i
483. 483 483. Relics Introduction1994-03-31The idea that power exists in the remains of heroes and the things they leave behind is the focus of an Arena trilogy broadcast this weekend and introduced by this programme. Relig
484. 484 484. Relics: Einstein's Brain1994-04-01"Move Albert Einstein ," declares Japanese professor Kenji Sugimoto at the start of a bizarre journey in search of the great one's missing brain. Sugimoto would not look out of pla
485. 485 485. Relics: Curse of the Firebeetle1994-04-02A film drama set against civil war in Peru. When Ortiz, a professional graverobber, stumbles across the huge golden disc of the ancient sun god Atahualpa lost for years, he sets of
486. 486 486. Relics: The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin1994-04-03In 1978 Charlie Chaplin 's coffin was stolen from his grave in Vevey, Switzerland, and a large ransom was demanded of his widow Oona. This fictional film inspired by those events f
487. 487 487. Philip K Dick - a Day In the Afterlife1994-04-09The author of the stories behind Blade Runner and Total Recall grew up in California at a time when an agricultural idyll was fast being replaced by motorways, shopping stores and
488. 488 488. Voices from the Island1994-04-23Robben Island is South Africa's Alcatraz. For three decades Nelson Mandela , Walter Sisulu and hundreds of other political prisoners were held in its maximum security prison for op
489. 489 489. Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here but Me1994-04-24Using herself as the model, American artist Cindy Sherman has produced hundreds of photographs exploring the use of female stereotypes. Most recently she has addressed the theme of
490. 490 490. Bahia of all the Saints1994-05-07Brazil's major slave-trading port for nearly three centuries, Bahia has a black population of over 80 per cent which maintains the legacy of African tradition at every level of dai
491. 491 491. Sandra Bernhard - Confession of a Pretty Lady1994-05-20Sandra Bernhard 's outrageous one-woman show deals with many normally taboo subjects and controversy runs through her personal life: she was once Madonna's lover and is a lesbian p
492. 492 492. Louise Bourgeois1994-08-06This Arena special profiles sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who has suddenly become fashionable at the age of 84, and has been chosen to represent America at the Venice Biennale, the wo
493. 493 493. The Peter Sellers Story 11995-02-11Arena returns with a three-part special, presenting a film portrait of one of the world's great comic actors, incorporating home movies, film clips and interviews.
494. 494 494. The Peter Sellers Story: 2: Jack to Jacques1995-02-18The second of a three-part film portrait of one of the world's great comic actors.
495. 495 495. The Peter Sellers Story: 3: I Am Not a Funny Man1995-02-25The last of a three-part film portrait of one of the world's great comic actors. Tonight's film begins in 1964, with Sellers at the peak of his success. Dr Strangelove and The Pin
496. 496 496. Punk and the Pistols1995-08-20In August 1975, the face of British rock music was fundamentally changed: the Sex Pistols were formed. A host of colourful characters, including the Damned's Captain Sensible, Rich
497. 497 497. The Burger and the King1996-01-01The passion fans had for his music was matched only by the passion Elvis Presley had for his food. This documentary records his inexhaustible appetite for fast foods, the team he h
498. 498 498. Stories My Country Told Me1996-07-14What is a nation? From Corsica to Kashmir, from Quebec to Bosnia, violent separatist movements are fighting to form their own nation states. This edition of Arena explores the fabr
499. 499 499. Tony Bennett's New York1996-12-22At 70 years of age, singer Tony Bennett has been dubbed the King of Cool by the MTV-watching generation. Arena reveals the man behind the silky voice as Tony Bennett - civil rights
500. 500 500. Caesar's Writers1996-12-24The legendary Sid Caesar was one of America's favourite TV stars in the fifties. His writing team, which include Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Neil Simon, was probably the first ever
501. 501 501. There's No Such Thing as a Small Head of State1997-01-02On 22 October 1995, for the first time, all the world's leaders gathered together in the United Nations in New York to have their photograph taken for the beginning of the UN's 50t
502. 502 502. Dear Antonioni1997-01-18A portrait of the Italian film-maker Michelangelo Antonioni , who has directed such films as L'Awentura, which follows immediately, LaNotte and Zabriskie Point. The work of the dir
503. 503 503. Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Underground1997-03-28Sports writer Hugh Mcllvanney presents the first of a trilogy of programmes for the Easter weekend about three great football managers; Matt Busby. Jock Stein and Bill Shankly. To
504. 504 504. Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Football is the Faith1997-03-29Hugh Mcllvanney presents the second in a trilogy of programmes about three great football managers; Matt Busby , Jock Stein and Bill Shankly. Tonight's film focuses on 1945-60, th
505. 505 505. Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: The Price of Glory1997-03-30Concluding the three-part series presented by sports writer Hugh Mcllvanney about three great football managers; Matt Busby, Jock Stein and Bill Shankly. This film charts the incre
506. 506 506. The Banana1997-12-24Tonight's programme considers musa sapientum, the fruit of the wise. The Velvet Underground's John Cale tells the story behind Andy Warhol's famous LP cover, Auberon Waugh and John
507. 507 507. Cigars - out of the Humidor1997-12-25In 1962, before John F Kennedy signed the embargo banning the importation of cigars into America from Cuba, the President ordered 1,200 Havana cigars, according to Pierre Salinger,
508. 508 508. The Noel Coward Trilogy: The Boy Actor1998-04-11The first of a three-part profile of the writer, composer and actor covers Coward's meteoric rise from suburban south London to the world's highest-paid author by the time he was 3
509. 509 509. The Noel Coward Trilogy: Captain Coward1998-04-12The second of three programmes celebrating the life and career of Noel Coward focuses on the journey through the Far East which inspired his most famous song, Mad Dogs and Englishm
510. 510 510. The Noel Coward Trilogy: Sail Away1998-04-13Concluding the three-part Easter special with a look at the last 30 years of Noel Coward's life. His post-war eclipse as a dramatist gave way to a new career as a highly successful
511. 511 511. Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century1998-05-15Arena explores the rise of the legendary crooner Frank Sinatra from his early family background to overwhelming showbusiness success. Interviews with friends, family and associates
512. 512 512. The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow1998-05-25The first of a two-part documentary telling the story of Brian Epstein. Gay when homosexuality was illegal, a gambler, shopkeeper and failed actor, he was also the pop king with th
513. 513 513. The Brian Epstein Story: Tomorrow Never Knows1998-12-26Concluding the two-part profile of the pop manager who brought global success to the Beatles. By the mid-sixties, the group's fame meant Epstein had little time to devote to the o
514. 514 514. Cuba Night: the 40-Year Face-off1999-01-02
515. 515 515. Cuba Night: Eisenhower, Kennedy and Khrushchev: How It All Began1999-01-02Newsreel footage from 1962, when Fidel Castro's arrangement with then-Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to install nuclear-weapon sites triggered off the Cuban missile crisis.
516. 516 516. Cuba Night: A Diamond in the Rough1999-01-02Cuba's baseball prowess has been long estabished. Fidel Castro himself was once scouted by a US team, and in 1992 Cuba surpassed even the Americans to win the first Olympic basebal
517. 517 517. Cuba Night: LBJ, Nixon and Brezhnev: the Middle Years1999-01-02Cuba's place in world politics, from mid-sixties to mid-eighties.
518. 518 518. Cuba Night: The Simpsons: The Trouble with Trillions1999-01-02Homer swaps jobs with Fidel Castro, who goes to work at the nuclear power plant in Springfield.
519. 519 519. Cuba Night: Reagan and Gorbachev: Castro, Cuba and the Fall of Communism1999-01-02The effects of the demise of the dominant political ethos in the east.
520. 520 520. Cuba Night: Who Owns Che? The Importance of Not Being Ernesto1999-01-02Since his death in 1967, the face of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara has stared down from posters and banners around the world, the most reproduced image since the Mona Lisa. This
521. 521 521. Cuba Night: The Clinton Years: Cuba Today and Tomorrow1999-01-02Cuba's relations with the United States in recent times.
522. 522 522. Salman Rushdie and the Ground beneath His Feet1999-04-22In Salman Rushdie 's new novel The Ground beneath Her Feet. singer Vina Aspara is caught up in an earthquake on Valentine's Day 1989, and never seen again. On that day Rushdie's ow
523. 523 523. Looking for the Iron Curtain1999-11-07The Iron Curtain ran north to south through Europe and divided the world for 50 years. American writer and broadcaster Reggie Nadelson joins former Soviet Union spin doctor Vladimi
524. 524 524. Casanova1999-12-20The legendary 18th-century lover has been immortalised in books, films and on television, but are these fictionalised accounts historically accurate? Novelist Josephine Hart inves
525. 525 525. Blondes - Jayne Mansfield1999-12-24In 1957, Jayne Mansfield was riding high as the most photographed woman in the world. Yet, ten years later, she was reduced to stripping in seedy nightclubs to finance a serious al
526. 526 526. Blondes - Diana Dors1999-12-26This second blonde-bombshell profile focuses on Britain's home-grown prototype, Diana Dors. The Rada-trained actress emerged as a sex symbol in the fifties through a run of low-bud
527. 527 527. Blondes - Anita Ekberg1999-12-27Perhaps best remembered as the shapely blonde who waded into the Trevi Fountain in La Dolce Vita, fifties sex symbol Anita Ekberg became a Hollywood icon and a cult figure in Europ
528. 528 528. The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money2000-01-02Actor Dennis Hopper plays the eccentric host to this guide to the world of commercial creativity. The programme analyses advertising's true place in modern-day, media-obsessed popu
529. 529 529. The Veil2000-05-20More and more young Muslim women today are wearing the veil, saying that it frees rather than oppresses them. This one-off Arena explores how a simple piece of cloth has endured in
530. 530 530. Wisconsin Death Trip2000-07-02An edition in the occasional arts documentary strand. Wisconsin Death Trip. Inspired by a book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh tells the haunting tale of murder, madness a
531. 531 531. Clint Eastwood: Out of the West2000-12-24The first of a two-part Christmas special profiling the Hollywood actor and director Clint Eastwood. Eastwood recalls his tough childhood, and looks back at his early career, from
532. 532 532. Clint Eastwood: American Film-maker2000-12-25Concluding the two-part profile of the life and work of Hollywood actor and director Clint Eastwood. The story continues with Eastwood's directorial debut, as he completed Play Mi
533. 533 533. James Ellroy's Feast of Death2001-05-06The art strand Arena returns with a new seven-part series. Best known for such novels as LA Confidential, The Black Dahlia, and the autobiographical work My Dark Places, crime wri
534. 534 534. And the Winner Is ...2001-05-13There is seemingly no endeavour for which there is not an award, from Preacher of the Year to Streetsweeper of the Year. Arena asks what lies at the heart of our fascination with a
535. 535 535. Budd Schulberg - a Contender2001-05-19Eighty-six-year-old novelist Budd Schulberg talks to old friend Hugh McIlvanney about his life and his long and varied career - including his screenplay for the multiple Oscar-winn
536. 536 536. The Source2001-05-28Tonight's film dramatises the story behind the leading artists who personified the Beat Generation, which saw its roots in the meeting of Allen Ginsberg , Jack Kerouac and William
537. 537 537. Salgado - the Spectre of Hope2001-05-30During the past 30 years the photographic work of Brazilian-born Sebastiao Salgado has helped to bring conditions of famine and poverty to international attention.
538. 538 538. Stalin - the Red God2001-05-31Joseph Stalin is seen outside his native land as one of history's most deplorable tyrants, but throughout the former Soviet states a cult of Stalin still exists. This film document
539. 539 539. According to Beryl2001-10-06A one-off film in which author Beryl Bainbridge chronicles the extraordinary relationship during the 18th century between Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale, the wife of rich London
540. 540 540. Night of Entertainers: Sykes and a Day2001-12-26Writer, performer and director, the late Eric Sykes was the renaissance man of British comedy. This episode of Arena opens the doors of the room that was his creative home for fort
541. 541 541. Night of Entertainers: Drake's Progress2001-12-25Charlie Drake is perhaps best known as the "little man" taking on the world in such films as 'The Cracksman' and television series like 'The Worker'. Drake himself had much to over
542. 542 542. Night of Entertainers: The 1812 Overture in E Flat Major Opus 492001-12-25The sketch, first shown in 1967, that took the Golden Rose at Montreux. Drake plays the conductor and all of the musicians in an orchestra.
543. 543 543. Night of Entertainers: Max Bygraves - I Wanna Tell You a Story2001-12-25Since a 1951 breakthrough appearance on the long-running radio series 'Educating Archie', Bygraves has proved a hit with the British public, whether he performs as an actor, a come
544. 544 544. The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 12001-12-26In 1986, Dirk Bogarde burnt most of his personal papers at his home in southern France. However, 12 cans of home movies, shot mostly by Bogarde's long-term partner Anthony Forwood,
545. 545 545. The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 22001-12-26The second of Arena's two-part film about Bogarde plots his progress to the forefront of European cinema in films such as Joseph Losey's 'The Servant' and Luchino Visconti's 'Death
546. 546 546. Estonia Dreams of Eurovision2002-05-18As the 2001 winner, the Baltic state of Estonia, prepares to host this year's Eurovision Song Contest, this documentary explores the dramas, dreams, and dilemmas of what many see a
547. 547 547. Kurosawa: Part One2002-06-15First in a two-part profile of Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa, looking at his childhood, early career and emergence as a major director during the American occupation. Kurosawa
548. 548 548. Kurosawa: Part Two2002-06-22Concluding the profile of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. International acclaim followed masterpieces like the influential 'Seven Samurai', but success at home was elusive. Unab
549. 549 549. The Peter Sellers Story: As He Filmed It2002-08-24Arena revisits its 1995 BAFTA-nominated Sellers trilogy, this time using only film shot by the late comic, who died in July 1980. Sellers is seen at home, on set, on holiday and in
550. 550 550. Harold Pinter: 1: The Room2002-10-26This edition chronicles Pinter's East End childhood, his work as an actor, the critical appraisal of his work, and his passion for cricket. The film looks at the various rooms in w
551. 551 551. Harold Pinter: 2: Celebration2002-10-26This programme focuses on the relationship between the public and private aspects of Pinter's life and work. The film includes footage from two Pinter stage productions - 'One For
552. 552 552. One for the Road2002-10-26Harold Pinter takes the lead role in the Gate Theatre, Dublin's production of his play, produced by Michael Colgan and directed by Robin Lefevre. In an unnamed police state, Nicola
553. 553 553. Politics and Pinter2002-10-30A 70th birthday tribute to Harold Pinter in three parts. The first section acknowledges Pinter's involvement in highlighting political injustices and puts his writing in its politi
554. 554 554. The Room2002-11-05An anxious recluse deals with the pressures of the outside world. A play by Harold Pinter, filmed in New York's Almeida Theatre in 2001
555. 555 555. Radio Ha! Meet the Dead Ringers2002-12-26In a world of mimicry and satire, do the Dead Ringers team know who they really are? Meet Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Mark Perry, Kevin Connelly and Phil Cornwell, whose impressions o
556. 556 556. Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute2002-12-26Not many can talk for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation - but, for 35 years, Just a Minute panellists have done just that. Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Linda Smit
557. 557 557. I Am from Nowhere2003-01-14The story of Mikova, the remote Slovakian village where the family of icon Andy Warhol came from.
558. 558 558. The Real Jane Austen2003-06-12Gillian Kearney plays the author in an Arena docudrama. With Anna Chancellor.
559. 559 559. The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough: Part One2003-08-24As he becomes an octogenarian, a two-part Arena special celebrates the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved public figures. Lord Attenborough's film CV as a
560. 560 560. The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough: Part Two2003-08-25The conclusion to this two-part profile, which accompanies the Attenborough at 80 season of films this week, looks at Attenborough's career as Britain's most distinguished film dir
561. 561 561. Imagine Imagine2003-09-20The huge and enduring popularity of John Lennon 's song, Imagine, is examined in this documentary. Yoko Ono , who is now acknowledged as the co-author of the song, is filmed as sh
562. 562 562. Dylan Thomas - from Grave to Cradle2003-11-22In the 50th year since his tragic death, author and broadcaster Nigel Williams examines the work and legend of one of the most famous poets of the 20th century-Dylan Thomas. Born i
563. 563 563. Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made2003-12-19Buffalo Bill was instrumental in transforming the Wild West into the caricatured setting portrayed in countless films and novels. Using archive footage, this part-dramatised docume
564. 564 564. Alec Guinness, a Secret Man2003-12-29The acting career of Alec Guinness spanned more than five decades. Although readily identifiable in character, the real man avoided the trappings of fame, preferring a secluded lif
565. 565 565. Pavarotti - the Last Tenor2004-05-29For 40 years, Luciano Pavarotti has been hailed as one of the greatest tenors of all time, an artist fit to rank alongside the great Caruso. As his career reaches its climax, this
566. 566 566. Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus2004-07-09Country singer Jim White takes a road trip through the rural white American South in in an Arena documentary. Driving through a terrain of truck stops and churches, he finds a com
567. 567 567. Shadowing the Third Man2004-10-02Examining the battles between the film's producers, and the demands of star Orson Welles.
568. 568 568. Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?2004-12-09A documentary chronicling the series of Amnesty International fundraising concerts, which brought together a wealth of comedy talent and paved the way for future events such as Com
569. 569 569. Painting the Clouds - a Portrait of Dennis Potter2004-12-25The Potter at the BBC strand marking the 10th anniversary of his death starts with this feature-length profile. It charts his childhood, time at Oxford, bid for parliament and rise
570. 570 570. Dennis Potter: It's In the Songs! It's In the Songs!2005-01-02How the playwright used popular songs as a powerful dramatic device and to express the depth of his characters in Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective.
571. 571 571. Potter on Television2005-01-09A portrait of the late playwright, featuring extracts from his work - read by Keith Barron - and interviews with Potter himself.
572. 572 572. Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues2005-02-05From Elvis to Norah Jones , Hank Williams 's songs have been recorded more often than those of any other country music writer. Dirt-poor and rail-thin, he blazed out of Alabama in
573. 573 573. Calling Hedy Lamarr2005-02-12Cited as being the most beautiful star in the Hollywood firmament during the 1930s and 40s, Hedy Lamarr's talents as an accomplished physicist who also engaged in perfecting radar
574. 574 574. Francis Bacon's Arena2005-03-19Haunting and ferocious, Francis Bacon's paintings made an indelible impression on art history. His life - as outrageous as his work - is recalled by Arena in the only documentary e
575. 575 575. Arena at 302005-09-03Bob Dylan, Jean Genet, Orson Welles and Francis Bacon are among the subjects in a look back at memorable editions of the past 30 years. With film makers Alan Yentob, Anthony Wall a
576. 576 576. Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 12005-09-26Director Martin Scorsese enlists the help of Dylan himself, Joan Baez , film-maker DA Pennebaker , Greenwich Village folk icon Dave Von Ronk , and beat poet Allen Ginsberg , for an
577. 577 577. Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 22005-09-27Martin Scorsese delicately balances Dylan's internal world with signpost images from the external as he follows the newsworthy phenomenon of a 23-year-old star laden with expectati
578. 578 578. Dylan in the Madhouse2005-09-28Surprisingly, Bob Dylan first came to the attention of the British public through his role in a 1963 BBC TV play, The Madhouse on Castle Street. The tape was later wiped and has si
579. 579 579. The Princess and Panorama2005-11-08An incredible 22.8 million viewers were agog as Diana, Princess of Wales spoke candidly of her marriage into the royal family. Ten years on, the secrecy and tensions behind this se
580. 580 580. Routemasters! The Double Decker Bus Conductors2005-12-10Documentary celebrating one of London's great characters, the bus conductor. The film tells the stories of five extraordinary conductors from five decades of London's history (orig
581. 581 581. Galton and Simpson2005-12-25Hancock's Half-Hour and Steptoe and Son - two persuasive reasons for making Ray Galton and Alan Simpson pre-eminent among Britain's postwar comedy writers. In their first full-leng
582. 582 582. Pete Doherty2006-11-12A one-off documentary following six months in the life of Libertines and Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty - the musician who currently throws the British tabloid press into a fre
583. 583 583. Saints2006-12-17The phenomenon of sanctity is examined in a documentary asking what makes a saint, comparing the Catholic Church's well-known practices with those of Hinduism and Buddhism.
584. 584 584. The Archers2007-01-01Marking its 56th year on the air, Arena examines the enduring appeal of Radio 4's rural soap, which began in 1951 as a public service programme to help Britain's farmers get back o
585. 585 585. The Underground2007-03-18Documentary about the Tube, the world's oldest underground system, with its own unwritten rules of behaviour and protocol, and used by three million passengers every day.
586. 586 586. Bob Marley - Exodus 772007-06-03The year 1977 was a crucial one in the life of reggae superstar Bob Marley. After an attempt on his life in his home that he was lucky to survive, he was forced to move from Jamaic
587. 587 587. Encountering Bergman2007-07-13Examining the life and work of film director Ingmar Bergman , through people who know and have spoken to him, including Melvyn Bragg and Marie Nyrerod , producer of Bergman and Far
588. 588 588. Bergman and Faro Island2007-07-13In his remote home at the seashore on Sweden's Faro Island, Ingmar Bergman talks about the childhood that shaped him.
589. 589 589. Bergman and the Cinema2007-07-14Ingmar Bergman examines his cinema career, which began when his first script was filmed in 1944. He is also joined by journalist and director Marie Nyrerod to look at his private a
590. 590 590. Flames of Passion: the Other Side of British Cinema2007-09-02Britain's postwar cinema was not well looked upon by many critics. The melodramas, crime films and horror shockers were almost all derided by contemporary critics. Unearthing a wea
591. 591 591. The Original Archers2007-10-04The earliest surviving episode in the BBC archives of The Archers, originally broadcast 11th March 1952, is repeated here in its entirety along with archive film of the period.
592. 592 592. Tribute Bands - into the Limelight2007-10-06Affectionate documentary that goes behind the scenes of the Limelight Club in Crewe, where for ten years tribute acts to the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Phil Lynott have
593. 593 593. Tribute Bands - Live at the Limelight2007-10-06Live performances by tribute bands such as Limehouse Lizzy, Are You Experienced, The Jamm and ABCD, at Crewe's Limelight Club.
594. 594 594. Dylan's Folk - the Pure, the Bad and the Holy2007-10-14A look at the Newport folk festival and the American folk revival of the 60s, which encompassed old time mountain music, blues and gospel.
595. 595 595. The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival2007-10-14Murray Lerner's documentary features Bob Dylan's performances at the Newport folk festival between 1963 and 1965 - the time when Dylan changed the music of the world.
596. 596 596. Dylan in the Madhouse2007-10-14Arena goes in search of the Bob Dylan starring 1962 BBC drama Madhouse on Castle Street, wiped in 1968.
597. 597 597. Ken Dodd's Happiness2007-12-24A tribute to the Liverpudlian comedian, who turned 80 last month. Here, he discusses his 50-year career and the influences on his comedy style. Featuring film clips of his early pe
598. 598 598. The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul2008-04-10Profile of the Nobel Prize-winning British writer, VS Naipaul. Filmed in Wiltshire, India and his native Trinidad, he remains as incisive, forthright and controversial as ever.
599. 599 599. Cab Driver2008-07-26Documentary which gets to the heart of that much-maligned and stereotyped character, the London cabbie, using archive footage, music and film, as well as the drivers themselves.
600. 600 600. The Hunt for Moby-Dick2008-09-20Writer Philip Hoare embarks on an epic journey to investigate humankind's ongoing fascination with the whale. He travels from Southampton to the whaling ports of America, before co
601. 601 601. Whale Night: The Whale in the Museum2008-09-21BBC4's Whale Night begins with an insight into the the construction of the Blue Whale exhibit at the Natural History Museum.
602. 602 602. Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 1: Baleen2008-09-21Author and whale-watcher Philip Hoare takes us into the world of baleen whales, the largest animals ever to have lived and the order including blue, fin and humpback whales.
603. 603 603. Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 2: Toothed2008-09-21Author and whale-watcher Philip Hoare takes us into the world of toothed whales, from the plight of the captive killer whale to the fate of the stranded London whale.
604. 604 604. Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 3: Arctic2008-09-21Philip Hoare follows the historical trail of the whale hunters to the frozen seas of the North Pole, where he finds the bowhead, the white beluga and the tusked narwhal.
605. 605 605. The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector2008-10-25Legendary, reclusive and controversial, Phil Spector changed the face of pop with his reverbladen "wall of sound" production techniques, working with artists including the Ronettes
606. 606 606. Paul Scofield2008-12-24A host of theatrical greats pay tribute to the accomplished actor, who died in March this year aged 86. Featuring extracts from some of his most famous roles, including Sir Thomas
607. 607 607. Tony Bennett: the Music Never Ends2009-02-14Crooner Tony Bennett reflects on his life with his friend and jazz enthusiast Clint Eastwood. Bennett traces his musical lineage, highlighted by concert footage.
608. 608 608. Cool2009-04-03Archive film shows how American jazz culture spread across the world in the 1940s and 50s, representing a movement that started in the clubs of New York and LA.
609. 609 609. TS Eliot2009-06-06The Poetry Season continues with this in-depth look at the life of one of the 20th century's most important literary figures. As well as uncovering the many sides of the Nobel Priz
610. 610 610. Harold Pinter Night: The Birthday Party2009-07-26A performance of his critically acclaimed 1958 play about a man tormented by two mysterious strangers.
611. 611 611. Brian Eno - Another Green World2010-01-22Brian Eno, former Roxy Music keyboardist and a pioneer in ambient music, engages with fellow minds in conversations on science, art, systems analysis, producing and cybernetics.
612. 612 612. Harold Pinter - A Celebration2010-01-24In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson.
613. 613 613. Johnny Mercer - The Dream's on Me2010-04-04Documentary telling the story and examining the legacy of Johnny Mercer, one of America's greatest songwriters and a man at the heart of the Great American Songbook.
614. 614 614. Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way2010-12-03Profile of the influential jazz pianist Dave Brubeck as he approaches his 90th birthday, who had one of the biggest popular hits in jazz history with Take Five.
615. 615 615. Rolf Harris Paints His Dream2010-12-29Arena enlists supermodels Lily Cole and Lizzy Jagger and actresses Dervla Kirwan and Emer Kenny to help Rolf Harris achieve a painting ambition.
616. 616 616. Produced by George Martin2011-04-25Profile of record producer Sir George Martin, with his wife Judy, son Giles, Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Michael Palin among the many contributors.
617. 617 617. George Harrison: Living in the Material World: Part 12011-11-12Martin Scorsese's portrait of George Harrison, which traces his life from his beginnings in Liverpool to becoming a world-famous musician, philanthropist and filmmaker.
618. 618 618. George Harrison: Living in the Material World: Part 22011-11-13Martin Scorsese's portrait of George Harrison looks at his post-Beatles days as a member of the Travelling Wilburys and a solo artist, as well as his non-musical ventures.
619. 619 619. Dickens on Film2012-01-10An exploration of Charles Dickens's contribution to the history of film and television, using archive footage of classic and less familiar adaptations from 1898 to the present day.
620. 620 620. Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes2012-02-17Documentary about the great saxophonist Sonny Rollins, built around his 80th birthday concert, where he is joined by the likes of Roy Haynes, Jim Hall and Ornette Coleman.
621. 621 621. Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued!2012-02-17Newly-discovered film footage of tenor sax legend Sonny Rollins at Ronnie Scott's in 1974, with a band featuring guitarist Yoshiaki Masuo and soprano saxophone player Rufus Harley.
622. 622 622. The Dreams of William Golding2012-03-17An insight into the private obsessions and insecurities of the author of Lord of the Flies. With contributions from his daughter and son and bestselling author Stephen King
623. 623 623. Jonathan Miller2012-03-31Documentary exploring the life of Sir Jonathan Miller CBE, theatre and opera director, humorist and television presenter. With contributors including Kevin Spacey and Eric Idle.
624. 624 624. Amy Winehouse - The Day She Came to Dingle2012-07-23Documentary telling the story of the day Amy Winehouse recorded a stunning acoustic performance in a church in the small Irish fishing village of Dingle in 2006.
625. 625 625. The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour: Episode 1: Magical Mystery Tour Revisited2012-10-06The making of The Beatles' controversial 1967 film, featuring previously unseen archive footage.
626. 626 626. The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour: Episode 2: 'The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour2012-10-06Fully restored and with a remixed soundtrack, 'The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour comes out of the shadows and onto the screen.
627. 627 627. Screen Goddesses2012-12-22Documentary about the early female movie stars: Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe - immortal goddesses made by Hollywood to reign over the silver screen.
628. 628 628. Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel2012-12-25Documentary telling the personal story of Sister Wendy Beckett, who travelled the world telling the story of Christian art and painting in the 1990s, quickly becoming a star.
629. 629 629. aka Norman Parkinson2013-04-21To mark the centenary of his birth, Arena examines the glamorous life and exceptionally long career of pioneering photographer and eccentric English gentleman, Norman Parkinson.
630. 630 630. Arena: The National Theatre: Part One - The Dream2013-10-24First of two documentaries celebrating the National Theatre's 50th anniversary, with contributions from artistic directors, playwrights and stars such as Dame Joan Plowright.
631. 631 631. Arena: The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace2013-10-31Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner talk about running the new National Theatre from its opening in 1976 to the fulfilment of Olivier's original dream.
632. 632 632. Whatever Happened to Spitting Image?2014-03-20Documentary telling the story of the genesis of the satirical puppet show Spitting Image, with contributions from caricaturists Peter Fluck and Roger Law and producer John Lloyd.
633. 633 633. The National Theatre: Learning Zone2014-04-02Made specially for schools, this version of Arena examines the history and purpose of the National Theatre as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
634. 634 634. The 50 Year Argument - The New York Review of Books2014-06-29Martin Scorsese's documentary film charting literary, political and cultural history as per the New York Review of Books, America's leading journal of ideas since 1963.
635. 635 635. Nicolas Roeg - It's About Time2015-06-26Profile of Nicolas Roeg, examining his personal vision of cinema as evidenced in his films, including Don't Look Now, Performance, Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth.
636. 636 636. Night and Day2015-11-22To celebrate Arena's 40th anniversary, a new film made entirely from its own archive, evoking the one experience common to all - the 24-hour cycle from dawn to dusk to dawn again.
637. 637 637. Loretta Lynn - Still a Mountain Girl2016-03-18With contributions from her family and fellow musicians, now in her early eighties and still going strong, country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn looks back at her life.
638. 638 638. All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film2016-04-24Documentary exploring the rich, global history of Shakespeare in the cinema, with a treasure trove of film extracts and archival interviews with their creators.
639. 639 639. 1966 - 50 Years Ago Today2016-07-24Documentary marking the year pop music and popular culture ripped up the rule book, as restless experimentation and the search for new forms of expression took hold.
640. 640 640. The Roundhouse - The People's Palace2016-10-23The tragicomic rollercoaster story of a unique venue, the Roundhouse in north London, which has hosted virtually every big name in rock and alternative theatre since 1966.
641. 641 641. Alone with Chrissie Hynde2017-02-10Arena spends the summer with supercool self-confessed rock chick, Chrissie Hynde. Featuring a glorious live performance at one of London's most intimate venues.
642. 642 642. American Epic: Episode 1: The Big Bang2017-05-21Series telling the stories of the pioneers of American roots music. The 1920s saw record companies travel rural America to record the music of ordinary people.
643. 643 643. American Epic: Episode 2: Blood and Soil2017-05-28Series telling the stories of the pioneers of American roots music. The second episode explores gospel, the songs of the coal mines and the Mississippi Delta blues.
644. 644 644. Kirsty Young: 75 Years of Desert Island Discs2017-05-29As Desert Island Discs reaches 75, today's custodian of the island, Kirsty Young, introduces the 1982 Bafta-winning Arena classic.
645. 645 645. American Epic: Episode 3: Out of the Many, the One2017-06-04The story of the pioneers of American roots music explores Hawaiian music, Cajun music and Mississippi John Hurt's blues.
646. 646 646. American Epic: Episode 4: The Sessions2017-06-09Today's music superstars use a lovingly reassembled old machine to record in the same way that their early predecessors did - with no edits, no overdubs and no retakes.
647. 647 647. Stanley and his Daughters2018-02-04Exploring the relationship of artist Stanley Spencer's daughters, Unity and Shirin, as they try to understand and reclaim their father and investigate their family's archaeology.
648. 648 648. Bob Dylan – Trouble No More2018-03-30A Bob Dylan performance of songs expressing his new-found Christianity in the late 70s, enhanced by a series of sermons between the songs, written by the actor Michael Shannon.
649. 649 649. Nothing Like a Dame2018-06-02A chance to hang out with Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Joan Plowright and enjoy sparkling conversation spliced with a raft of astonishing archive.
650. 650 650. Make Me Up!2018-11-04Multimedia artist Rachel Maclean takes a satirical look at the contradictory pressures faced by women today.
651. 651 651. Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything2019-04-06A year in the life of abstract artist Sean Scully, one of the world's wealthiest painters. Little known at home but a superstar abroad, Sean flies around the world to open 15 major
652. 652 652. That Summer2019-07-07A long-lost film of the creative community formed by Peter Beard, Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee Radziwill and her relatives, the Beales of Grey Gardens, in 1970s New York.
653. 653 653. Cindy Sherman #untitled2019-07-28A rare insight into the work of Cindy Sherman, one of the world's leading, and most elusive, contemporary artists.
654. 654 654. Kusama: Infinity2019-09-01Documentary profiling Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama whose work, including her much-visited Infinity Mirror Room installations, defies classification.
655. 655 655. Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin2019-09-21When legendary writer and adventurer Bruce Chatwin was dying of Aids, his friend and collaborator Werner Herzog made a final visit to say farewell.
656. 656 656. Bergman: A Year in the Life2019-09-22Documentary that exposes a darker, less well-known side of film director Ingmar Bergman, focusing on the landmark year of 1957, which saw Bergman direct two films and four plays.
657. 657 657. The $50 Million Art Swindle2019-09-23This feature-length documentary for Arena by acclaimed director Vanessa Engle tells the remarkable story of a charlatan art dealer who swindled over $50 million from the art establ
658. 658 658. A British Guide to the End of the World2019-11-04Haunting film about Britain and the nuclear age, from the first bomb tests to our potentially futile preparations for attack during the Cold War.
659. 659 659. Everything Is Connected - George Eliot's Life2019-11-10Contemporary artist Gillian Wearing celebrates the legacy of Victorian novelist George Eliot in an experimental film made up of a diverse cast of people.
660. 660 660. Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens2019-12-30Born into a farming family in rural Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney became the finest poet of his generation and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 - but his career al
661. 661 661. Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall2020-03-07Made across six months in the run-up to publication of 'The Mirror and the Light', the final book in Hilary Mantel’s Booker-winning Tudor trilogy on the life of Thomas Cromwell, th
662. 662 662. The Changin’ Times of Ike White2020-05-18In 1974, Ike White recorded an album while serving life for murder. The album became his ticket to freedom. But, just as he was on the cusp of stardom, Ike disappeared.
663. 663 663. I Am Not Your Negro2020-06-20Through the words of James Baldwin, this film touches on the lives and assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr and Medgar Evers.
664. 664 664. Keith Haring: Street Art Boy2020-07-04The definitive story of international art sensation Keith Haring, told using previously unheard interviews. Haring blazed a trail through the art scene of 80s New York and revoluti
665. 665 665. Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat2020-11-21xclusive testimony reveals the multifaceted man behind the maverick performer Fela Kuti, who created a sound for a continent - Afrobeat.
666. 666 666. My Father and Me2021-03-21For decades among the foremost names in documentary, Nick Broomfield has often implicated himself in the film-making process with honesty and candour. Yet never has he made a movie
667. 667 667. Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes2021-05-16Docudrama portrait of Delia Derbyshire, the electronic sound pioneer behind the Doctor Who theme tune, exploring the idea that this extraordinary composer herself lived outside of
668. 668 668. African Apocalypse2021-05-22British-Nigerian poet and activist Femi Nylander travels to West Africa to discover the modern-day impact on its people of atrocities that took place over a century ago.
669. 669 669. Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture2021-05-29An exploration – from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Grace Jones – of how black artists use the sci-fi genre to examine black history and imagine new, alternative futures.
670. 670 670. Painted with My Hair2021-10-31How a US lifer survived long-term solitary confinement through a remarkable pen-pal friendship and the making of beautiful little paintings from M&M's.
671. 671 671. B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From?2021-11-21An investigation into the extraordinary life and work of B. Catling, an eye-popping insight into the late-flourishing career of a maverick artist, teacher and performer.
672. 672 672. The Vasulka Effect2021-11-28An Arena documentary about the life and work of video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka, which reveals the profound effect they had on the American avant-garde.
673. 673 673. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World2022-02-13Documentary that follows Björn Andrésen, the boy catapulted to fame when Luchino Visconti chose him to play Tadzio in his screen adaptation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.
674. 674 674. River2022-07-25River takes its audience on a journey through space and time spanning six continents, showing rivers on a scale and from perspectives never seen before.
675. 675 675. James Joyce’s Ulysses2022-09-07A hundred years after its publication, this film reveals the tawdry, shocking, poetic, uplifting and gloriously kaleidoscopic humanity of James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses.
676. 676 676. T.S. Eliot: Into the Waste Land2022-10-222022 marks the centenary of one of the defining poems of the 20th century, 'The Waste Land'. TS Eliot's groundbreaking work first exploded into the world on 15 October 1922 and has
677. 677 677. Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters2022-11-27A visually arresting feature documentary, set in the present but which tells the rich story of Haiti’s past, that follows a number of carnival performers in the lead-up to, and dur
678. 678 678. Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll2023-04-22he life and career of the pioneering musician, a black artist who grew up in the segregated American South and broke down barriers and took 1950s America by storm. The Beatles and
679. 679 679. The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld2023-04-26With unique access to Karl Lagerfeld’s inner circle - many having never spoken publicly before - and his beloved cat, this film opens up the extraordinary world of the man known as
680. 680 680. The Stones and Brian Jones2023-05-15A look at the relationships and rivalries within The Rolling Stones in their formative years, as well as the creative musical genius of Brian Jones, key to the success of the band.
681. 681 681. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed2023-06-04A profile of artist and activist Nan Goldin, using slideshows, interviews, photography and rare footage to tell the story of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountab
682. 682 682. Coco Chanel Unbuttoned2023-09-15Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel transformed women's fashion, a truly revolutionary designer whose influence is still evident today. Her designs called into question the role of women, sex
683. 683 683. Being Kae Tempest2023-11-29Poet, rapper, playwright and recording artist Kae Tempest is one of the most viscerally exciting artists working in Britain today. They are the youngest ever recipient of the prest
684. 684 684. Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy2023-12-25A celebration of the unique life and talent of Caroline Aherne, featuring unseen photographs and contributions from a cast of her lifelong friends, including Steve Coogan, Jon Thom
685. 685 685. Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story2023-12-26The story of Noel Coward, the most prolific writer, director and entertainer of the 20th century, told in his own words.
686. 686 686. Maria Callas: The Final Act2024-12-29In this new film from Arena, a cast of musical experts and admirers uncover the truth about the Maria Callas myth and the gift of her extraordinary voice.
687. 687 687. Alan Bennett 90 Years On2024-12-13In May 2024, Alan Bennett turned 90. This film celebrates the life and long career of one of Britain's best-loved playwrights. Part frank reflection on the ageing process, part rem
688. 688 688. Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem2024-12-14Launched 30 years ago, Loaded magazine epitomised the 90s in its irreverence and appetite for hedonism. But how did it stand up to pressure to put more 'sexy babes' on the cover?
689. 689 689. From Roger Moore with Love2024-12-15Friends, family and co-stars take part in this revealing and entertaining look at British icon Roger Moore and his rise to global fame. With rare home-movie footage.
690. 690 690. Steven McRae: Dancing Back to the Light2024-12-16At the peak of his career, acclaimed ballet dancer Steven McRae severely damages his Achilles tendon. This is the story of his rehabilitation and the days leading up to his triumph
691. 691 691. My Brain: After the Rupture2024-12-17The incredible story of broadcaster, journalist, musician and author Clemency Burton-Hill's recovery following a devastating brain haemorrhage in early 2020.
692. 692 692. McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass2024-12-18The disappearance of McCartney’s original Höfner bass over 50 years ago is one of rock ‘n’ roll’s great mysteries. This is the story of the iconic instrument and the quest to find