Arena
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
Episodes
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Cast
Indira Varma
Various
Tony Benn
Self
James Brown
Gail Porter
Irvine Welsh
Katie Puckrik
David Baddiel
Harold Wilson
Francis Ford Coppola
Self
Martin Scorsese
Self
Tim Curry
Eden Rothwell Esp.
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Dennis
Robert Altman
Frank Westmore
Éric Rohmer
Mick Brownfield
Don Siegel
Ralph Steadman
Peter Stein
Leonard Rossiter
Gary Kurtz
John Barry
Mark Hamill
Joseph Conrad
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