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Arena

Year: 1975
Seasons: 3
Type: TV Series
Genre: Documentary

Overview

Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.

Episodes

EP 1
EP 1 Theatre
EP 2
EP 2 Art and Design
EP 3
EP 3 Theatre
EP 4
EP 4 Art and Design
EP 5
EP 5 Theatre
EP 6
EP 6 Art and Design
EP 7
EP 7 Theatre
EP 8
EP 8 Art and Design
EP 9
EP 9 Theatre
EP 10
EP 10 Art and Design
EP 11
EP 11 Theatre
EP 12
EP 12 Art and Design
EP 13
EP 13 Theatre
EP 14
EP 14 Art and Design
EP 15
EP 15 Theatre
EP 16
EP 16 Art and Design
EP 17
EP 17 Theatre
EP 18
EP 18 Art and Design
EP 19
EP 19 Theatre
EP 20
EP 20 Art and Design
EP 21
EP 21 Theatre
EP 22
EP 22 Art and Design
EP 23
EP 23 Theatre
EP 24
EP 24 Art and Design
EP 25
EP 25 Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court
EP 26
EP 26 Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?
EP 27
EP 27 Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1
EP 28
EP 28 Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2
EP 29
EP 29 Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3
EP 30
EP 30 Theatre: A Dream Come True
EP 31
EP 31 Robert Altman
EP 32
EP 32 Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer
EP 33
EP 33 Frank Westmore
EP 34
EP 34 Theatre
EP 35
EP 35 Cinema: Eric Rohmer
EP 36
EP 36 Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manha
EP 37
EP 37 Cinema: Don Siegel
EP 38
EP 38 Theatre: The Cultural Common Market
EP 39
EP 39 Cinema
EP 40
EP 40 Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell
EP 41
EP 41 Cinema
EP 42
EP 42 Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle
EP 43
EP 43 Cinema: Christmas Special
EP 44
EP 44 Cinema
EP 45
EP 45 Art and Design: Sam Smith: Genuine England/Arena Review
EP 46
EP 46 Cinema
EP 47
EP 47 Theatre: Spokesong/At Home with Mole
EP 48
EP 48 Cinema
EP 49
EP 49 Art and Design: Ralph Steadman
EP 50
EP 50 Cinema
EP 51
EP 51 Theatre: The Cultural Common Market: Peter Stein and the Schaubuhne
EP 52
EP 52 Cinema
EP 53
EP 53 Art and Design: What Is a Hologram?/Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon
EP 54
EP 54 Cinema
EP 55
EP 55 Theatre: A Night Out
EP 56
EP 56 Cinema
EP 57
EP 57 Art and Design: Family Pieces/Both Sides of the Line/The Divine and the Fantastic
EP 58
EP 58 Cinema
EP 59
EP 59 Theatre: The Prospect Before Us
EP 60
EP 60 Cinema
EP 61
EP 61 Art and Design: The Continuous Diary/Dine's Drawings
EP 62
EP 62 Cinema
EP 63
EP 63 Cinema
EP 64
EP 64 Cinema
EP 65
EP 65 Theatre: Playwrights of the 70's
EP 66
EP 66 Edinburgh Festival
EP 67
EP 67 Cinema
EP 68
EP 68 Cinema
EP 69
EP 69 Art and Design
EP 70
EP 70 Cinema
EP 71
EP 71 Theatre
EP 72
EP 72 Cinema: Greece
EP 73
EP 73 Art and Design: Richard Seifert
EP 74
EP 74 Cinema
EP 75
EP 75 Theatre: Hands Off the Classics
EP 76
EP 76 Cinema: 21st London Film Festival
EP 77
EP 77 Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag
EP 78
EP 78 Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 2
EP 79
EP 79 Theatre: Leonard Rossiter
EP 80
EP 80 Cinema: The Deep
EP 81
EP 81 Cinema: The Force is with us?
EP 82
EP 82 Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
EP 83
EP 83 Cinema: The Force is with us? - Part 2/Howard Hawks
EP 84
EP 84 Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard
EP 85
EP 85 Cinema: Joseph Conrad
EP 86
EP 86 Art and Design: Carrington
EP 87
EP 87 Cinema: Claude Renoir
EP 88
EP 88 Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...
EP 89
EP 89 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
EP 90
EP 90 Art and Design: Carl Andre
EP 91
EP 91 Cinema: Dancing Years
EP 92
EP 92 Theatre: Taking Our Time
EP 93
EP 93 Art and Design: Way Out West
EP 94
EP 94 Theatre: Children of the Gods
EP 95
EP 95 Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?
EP 96
EP 96 Art and Design: George Melly
EP 97
EP 97 Theatre: Arnold Wesker
EP 98
EP 98 Rock: Tubes on Tour
EP 99
EP 99 Episode 99
EP 100
EP 100 Vanessa Redgrave
EP 101
EP 101 Arena: Cinema
EP 102
EP 102 Arena: Cinema
EP 103
EP 103 Arena: Cinema
EP 104
EP 104 Arena: The Museum of Drawers
EP 105
EP 105 On Photography
EP 106
EP 106 Arena: Cinema
EP 107
EP 107 Arena: Cinema
EP 108
EP 108 Who is Poly Styrene?
EP 109
EP 109 Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes
EP 110
EP 110 Arena: Cinema
EP 111
EP 111 Maler's Requiem - Words and Images
EP 112
EP 112 Piaf AND What Did You Do in 'The Warp' Daddy?
EP 113
EP 113 Arena: Cinema
EP 114
EP 114 Other Writers Will Tell You Different and The Moving Picture Mime Show
EP 115
EP 115 Arena: Cinema
EP 116
EP 116 Ubu
EP 117
EP 117 My Way
EP 118
EP 118 Arena: Cinema
EP 119
EP 119 La Dame aux Gladiolas
EP 120
EP 120 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On
EP 121
EP 121 Arena: Cinema
EP 122
EP 122 Tell Us the Truth
EP 123
EP 123 The King and I AND Journey to the Surface of the Earth
EP 124
EP 124 Their Lips are Sealed
EP 125
EP 125 Steel Pulse
EP 126
EP 126 Ring Around the Moon
EP 127
EP 127 Pictures of the Mind
EP 128
EP 128 Six Days in September
EP 129
EP 129 Building for Change
EP 130
EP 130 Athol Fugard A Lesson from Aloes
EP 131
EP 131 Lene Lovich Sleeping Beauty
EP 132
EP 132 Mentioned in Dispatches
EP 133
EP 133 Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs Pupko's Beard
EP 134
EP 134 Peggy Taub, the Learned Goat and Other People ...
EP 135
EP 135 Bring Me Back a Song
EP 136
EP 136 ' I talk about me - I am Africa'
EP 137
EP 137 Rudies Come Back or The Rise and Rise of 2-Tone
EP 138
EP 138 Working At It
EP 139
EP 139 Victoria Wood and Andrea Dunbar
EP 140
EP 140 Climb Every Mountain or Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
EP 141
EP 141 Double Vision
EP 142
EP 142 Dedicated Followers of Fashion
EP 143
EP 143 Luck and Flaw
EP 144
EP 144 In Their Own Image AND Facing Up to Myself
EP 145
EP 145 Making 'The Shining'
EP 146
EP 146 Dire Straits
EP 147
EP 147 Chelsea Hotel
EP 148
EP 148 Hazell Meets His Makers
EP 149
EP 149 Getting Away from Sidney
EP 150
EP 150 Private Worlds
EP 151
EP 151 Today Carshalton Beaches ... Tomorrow Croydon
EP 152
EP 152 Edward Hopper
EP 153
EP 153 Stages
EP 154
EP 154 The Smallest Theatre
EP 155
EP 155 Huston's Hobby
EP 156
EP 156 A Walk with Amos Oz
EP 157
EP 157 God's Fifth Columnist
EP 158
EP 158 Did You Miss Me ...?
EP 159
EP 159 The Return of Lupino Lane
EP 160
EP 160 The Comic Strip Hero
EP 161
EP 161 Arena on Clair
EP 162
EP 162 Somewhere Over the Rainbow
EP 163
EP 163 If the Music Had to Stop
EP 164
EP 164 Curtains? The Future of the National Youth Theatre
EP 165
EP 165 The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda
EP 166
EP 166 'I Thought I Was Taller' A Short History of Mel Brooks
EP 167
EP 167 Have You Seen the Mona Lisa...?
EP 168
EP 168 Let Them Know We're Here
EP 169
EP 169 A Pretty British Affair
EP 170
EP 170 The Art of Radio Times AND The Eye of the 'Eye'
EP 171
EP 171 A Tall Story: How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India
EP 172
EP 172 Brixton to Barbados
EP 173
EP 173 Private Life of the Ford Cortina
EP 174
EP 174 What Makes Rabbit Run?
EP 175
EP 175 Here They Kill People for It
EP 176
EP 176 True to Life?
EP 177
EP 177 Desert Island Discs
EP 178
EP 178 Listen to Britain AND Housing Problems
EP 179
EP 179 The Orson Welles Story: Part One
EP 180
EP 180 The Orson Welles Story: Part Two
EP 181
EP 181 Mike Leigh Making Plays
EP 182
EP 182 A Genius Like Us
EP 183
EP 183 A Play for Bridport
EP 184
EP 184 Upon Westminster Bridge
EP 185
EP 185 Three Steps to Heaven
EP 186
EP 186 Angus McBean
EP 187
EP 187 Happy Days (Samuel Beckett Season)
EP 188
EP 188 Eh Joe (Samuel Beckett Season)
EP 189
EP 189 Rockaby (Samuel Beckett Season)
EP 190
EP 190 Not I (Samuel Beckett Season)
EP 191
EP 191 Quad (Samuel Beckett Season)
EP 192
EP 192 Krapp's Last Tape (Samuel Beckett Season)
EP 193
EP 193 Guernica: The Long Exile
EP 194
EP 194 Classically Cuban: Alicia Alonso and the Cuban National Ballet
EP 195
EP 195 Hair
EP 196
EP 196 Boulez Now
EP 197
EP 197 Jazz Juke Box
EP 198
EP 198 Burroughs
EP 199
EP 199 The Catherine Wheel
EP 200
EP 200 Kurt Vonnegut
EP 201
EP 201 It's All True
EP 202
EP 202 Luis Bunuel
EP 203
EP 203 Bette Davis - The Benevolent Volcano
EP 204
EP 204 Anthony Powell - An Invitation to the Dance
EP 205
EP 205 The Ghost Writer
EP 206
EP 206 Jazz Juke-Box II
EP 207
EP 207 Roman Vishniac
EP 208
EP 208 Classic British Documentaries
EP 209
EP 209 The GPO Story
EP 210
EP 210 The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
EP 211
EP 211 George Orwell 1: Such Such Were the Joys
EP 212
EP 212 George Orwell 2: The Road to Wigan Pier
EP 213
EP 213 George Orwell 3: Homage to Catalonia
EP 214
EP 214 George Orwell 4: The Lion and the Unicorn
EP 215
EP 215 George Orwell 4: Nineteen Eighty-four
EP 216
EP 216 Say Amen Someone
EP 217
EP 217 Four Rooms
EP 218
EP 218 The Theatre of Dario Fo
EP 219
EP 219 Sunset People
EP 220
EP 220 The Caravaggio Conspiracy
EP 221
EP 221 Between Dreaming and Waking
EP 222
EP 222 Ken Russell 's Elgar
EP 223
EP 223 Jerry Lee Lewis
EP 224
EP 224 True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
EP 225
EP 225 My Dinner with Louis
EP 226
EP 226 Milan Kundera- Laughter and Forgetting
EP 227
EP 227 A Tribute to Joseph Losey
EP 228
EP 228 Beat This! A Hip Hop History
EP 229
EP 229 The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience
EP 230
EP 230 Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
EP 231
EP 231 Eubie Blake
EP 232
EP 232 Francis Bacon
EP 233
EP 233 We Don't Like Your House Either!
EP 234
EP 234 Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense: The Music of Fela Kuti
EP 235
EP 235 After the Rehearsal
EP 236
EP 236 What's Cuba Playing At?
EP 237
EP 237 Music of the other Americas
EP 238
EP 238 Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden
EP 239
EP 239 My Son the Novelist
EP 240
EP 240 Painting for Pleasure ... and Profit: Five Artists of the 80s
EP 241
EP 241 Marcel Carne
EP 242
EP 242 From an Immigrant's Notebook: Karen Blixen in Africa
EP 243
EP 243 How Glorious is the Garden?
EP 244
EP 244 Old Kent Road
EP 245
EP 245 Ligmalion
EP 246
EP 246 Them and Uz: A film about Tony Harrison
EP 247
EP 247 Marc Chagall
EP 248
EP 248 Watch Me Move...
EP 249
EP 249 Hugh Masekela: The African Ambassador
EP 250
EP 250 The Theatre of Robert Wilson
EP 251
EP 251 Blues Night: Introduction
EP 252
EP 252 Blues Night: Sonny Boy Williamson Sings
EP 253
EP 253 Blues Night: B.B. King Speaks
EP 254
EP 254 Blues Night: Chicago Blues
EP 255
EP 255 Blues Night: Blind John Davis
EP 256
EP 256 Blues Night: Blues Medley
EP 257
EP 257 Blues Night: Big Bill Blues
EP 258
EP 258 Buddy Holly
EP 259
EP 259 Saint Genet
EP 260
EP 260 The Accordion Strikes Back
EP 261
EP 261 The Cinema of Francesco Rosi
EP 262
EP 262 The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
EP 263
EP 263 The Apollo Story: part 1
EP 264
EP 264 The Apollo Story: part 2
EP 265
EP 265 Tosca's Kiss
EP 266
EP 266 The New Babylon
EP 267
EP 267 Tango Mio
EP 268
EP 268 Cinderella
EP 269
EP 269 The Journey Man
EP 270
EP 270 Go-Go in Washington DC
EP 271
EP 271 Marguerite Yourcenar
EP 272
EP 272 Louise Brooks
EP 273
EP 273 Kurosawa
EP 274
EP 274 Two Painters Amazed
EP 275
EP 275 Home Front
EP 276
EP 276 Caribbean Nights: Caribbean Journey
EP 277
EP 277 Caribbean Nights: Medley
EP 278
EP 278 Caribbean Nights: Poetry
EP 279
EP 279 Caribbean Nights: Ska
EP 280
EP 280 Caribbean Nights: The Latin Caribbean
EP 281
EP 281 Caribbean Nights: Maytime on the Mosquito Coast
EP 282
EP 282 Caribbean Nights: Calypso and Carnival
EP 283
EP 283 Caribbean Nights: Whicker's Caribbean World
EP 284
EP 284 Caribbean Nights: Latin Sound
EP 285
EP 285 Caribbean Nights: God's Chillun
EP 286
EP 286 Caribbean Nights Bob Marley
EP 287
EP 287 Caribbean Nights: C.L.R. James's First Cricket XI
EP 288
EP 288 Caribbean Nights: Danzon
EP 289
EP 289 Caribbean Nights: Rasta and the Ball
EP 290
EP 290 Caribbean Nights: Arturo Sandoval
EP 291
EP 291 Caribbean Nights: Kapo
EP 292
EP 292 Henry Moore
EP 293
EP 293 Salvador Dali
EP 294
EP 294 The Life and Times of Don Luis Bunuel
EP 295
EP 295 The Spirit of Lorca
EP 296
EP 296 Cambodian Witness
EP 297
EP 297 Scarfe on Scarfe
EP 298
EP 298 Night Moves
EP 299
EP 299 Dylan
EP 300
EP 300 Stand by Your Dream: Tammy Wynette
EP 301
EP 301 Night and Day
EP 302
EP 302 Dennis Potter
EP 303
EP 303 Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas
EP 304
EP 304 The Confessions of Robert Crumb
EP 305
EP 305 Ruth, Roses and Revolver
EP 306
EP 306 A Brother with Perfect Timing
EP 307
EP 307 Tarkovsky's Cinema
EP 308
EP 308 Putting Ourselves in the Picture
EP 309
EP 309 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
EP 310
EP 310 Bayan Ko Pilipinas
EP 311
EP 311 Talk is Cheap
EP 312
EP 312 The Waugh Trilogy: Bright Young Thing
EP 313
EP 313 The Waugh Trilogy: Mayfair and the Jungle
EP 314
EP 314 The Waugh Trilogy: An Englishman's Home
EP 315
EP 315 German Festival: Joseph Beuys
EP 316
EP 316 ScreenPlay: Cariani and the Courtesans
EP 317
EP 317 Revolutionary with a Paintbox
EP 318
EP 318 Invisible Ink
EP 319
EP 319 Of Cats and Mice
EP 320
EP 320 Woody Guthrie
EP 321
EP 321 The Dandy-Beano Story
EP 322
EP 322 Broadway - The Great White Way
EP 323
EP 323 Ryszard Kapuscinski: Your Man Who is There
EP 324
EP 324 The Emperor
EP 325
EP 325 My Name Is Celia Cruz
EP 326
EP 326 All on a Mardi Gras Day Part One
EP 327
EP 327 All on a Mardi Gras Day: Part Two
EP 328
EP 328 Kerouac
EP 329
EP 329 An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 1
EP 330
EP 330 An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 2
EP 331
EP 331 Robert Mapplethorpe
EP 332
EP 332 The English Thoroughbred
EP 333
EP 333 Byrne About Byrne
EP 334
EP 334 Rhythms of the World: Randy Travis at the Albert Hall
EP 335
EP 335 Ten Green Bottles
EP 336
EP 336 Clint Eastwood: The Man with No Name.
EP 337
EP 337 Moving Across the World on Horses
EP 338
EP 338 History Boys on the Rampage
EP 339
EP 339 The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
EP 340
EP 340 Tales from Barcelona
EP 341
EP 341 Blackpool
EP 342
EP 342 The Tip of the Iceberg
EP 343
EP 343 Laurens van der Post and Albert Sample
EP 344
EP 344 New York - The Secret African City
EP 345
EP 345 Eugene Ionesco : the Joke's on Us
EP 346
EP 346 John Cassavetes
EP 347
EP 347 Power in the Blood
EP 348
EP 348 The Old Brass Plate Rattle Test - the Englishman and his Jukebox
EP 349
EP 349 Juke Box Jury
EP 350
EP 350 Berthold Lubetkin
EP 351
EP 351 Heavy Metal
EP 352
EP 352 The Other Graham Greene
EP 353
EP 353 Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 1: A Traveller's Tale
EP 354
EP 354 Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 2: How High the Moon
EP 355
EP 355 Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 3: My Dinner with Dizzy
EP 356
EP 356 Animal Night: Smashing Pigs
EP 357
EP 357 Animal Night: Sacred Elephant
EP 358
EP 358 Animal Night: Great Wildlife Presenters Through the Ages
EP 359
EP 359 Animal Night: John Daniel the First
EP 360
EP 360 Animal Night: A Day in the Life of Sam the Dog
EP 361
EP 361 Animal Night: Animals on Trial
EP 362
EP 362 Animal Night: The Animal Night Debate
EP 363
EP 363 25 x 5: the Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones
EP 364
EP 364 Numbers
EP 365
EP 365 Oblomov
EP 366
EP 366 Jerry Lee Lewis
EP 367
EP 367 Roberto Rossellini
EP 368
EP 368 Next Time Dear God Please Choose Someone Else
EP 369
EP 369 Salif Keita
EP 370
EP 370 Fred Zinnemann: A Director's Life
EP 371
EP 371 Spike and Company - Do It a Cappella
EP 372
EP 372 Peggy and Her Playwrights
EP 373
EP 373 The English Rose
EP 374
EP 374 Paris Is Burning
EP 375
EP 375 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
EP 376
EP 376 Havana
EP 377
EP 377 The Princess
EP 378
EP 378 The Ten Commandments of Krzysztof Kieslowski
EP 379
EP 379 Le Paris Black
EP 380
EP 380 Kino Perestroika
EP 381
EP 381 The Daily Worker Story
EP 382
EP 382 Oooh Er, Missus! - The Frankie Howerd Story
EP 383
EP 383 Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
EP 384
EP 384 The Fever
EP 385
EP 385 Food Night: Introduction
EP 386
EP 386 Food Night: Modern Food
EP 387
EP 387 Food Night: Great Moments in Food History
EP 388
EP 388 Food Night: The Story of Food in 27 Minutes and 43 Seconds
EP 389
EP 389 Food Night: Good Manners
EP 390
EP 390 Food Night: What's Kosher?
EP 391
EP 391 Food Night: The Last Supper
EP 392
EP 392 Food Night: The Complete History of the Potato
EP 393
EP 393 Food Night: I Just Happen to Have One Here I Made Earlier
EP 394
EP 394 Food Night: Movable Feast - the Politics of Disgust
EP 395
EP 395 Food Night: Eating for One
EP 396
EP 396 Food Night: Fasting and Abstinence
EP 397
EP 397 Food Night: Debate
EP 398
EP 398 Lifepulse - a Natural Thriller
EP 399
EP 399 Miller Meets Mandela
EP 400
EP 400 Derek Jarman - a Portrait
EP 401
EP 401 Anselm Kiefer : Operation Sealion
EP 402
EP 402 The Strange Story of Joe Meek
EP 403
EP 403 The Other Roci
EP 404
EP 404 Caroline 199 - A Pirate's Tale
EP 405
EP 405 Staring at the Ceiling
EP 406
EP 406 Three Irish Writers
EP 407
EP 407 One Irish Rover
EP 408
EP 408 The Importance of Being Oscar
EP 409
EP 409 The Other
EP 410
EP 410 Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon
EP 411
EP 411 Elmore Leonard 's Criminal Records
EP 412
EP 412 The Human Face
EP 413
EP 413 Texas Saturday Night
EP 414
EP 414 The Grass Arena
EP 415
EP 415 Billy, How Did You Do It? 1
EP 416
EP 416 Billy, How Did You Do It? 2
EP 417
EP 417 Billy, How Did You Do It? 3
EP 418
EP 418 Masters of the Canvas
EP 419
EP 419 Oliver Stone
EP 420
EP 420 Fatwa
EP 421
EP 421 Six Degrees of Separation: a New York Tale
EP 422
EP 422 The Incredible Case of Comrade
EP 423
EP 423 Croatia - the Artists' War
EP 424
EP 424 Otto Dix : a Tale of Two Germanies
EP 425
EP 425 Chi-Chi the Panda
EP 426
EP 426 Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up
EP 427
EP 427 Last Supper - Frank on Frank
EP 428
EP 428 A Spanish Odyssey - a Portrait of Javier Mariscal
EP 429
EP 429 An Argentinian Journey: 1: The Gaucho and the Pampas
EP 430
EP 430 An Argentinian Journey: 2: Zamba, Chacarera and Chamame
EP 431
EP 431 An Argentinian Journey: 3: Pacha Mama - Sacred Land
EP 432
EP 432 Sportswriter: the Fight, the Match and the Race
EP 433
EP 433 Linda McCartney, behind the Lens
EP 434
EP 434 The Graham Green Trilogy: England Made Me (1904-39)
EP 435
EP 435 The Graham Greene Trilogy: The Dangerous Edge (1940-60)
EP 436
EP 436 The Graham Greene Trilogy: A World of My Own (1961-91)
EP 437
EP 437 On the Road with Boggs
EP 438
EP 438 The Grateful and the Dead
EP 439
EP 439 A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie
EP 440
EP 440 Larry Kramer
EP 441
EP 441 Edward Said: the Idea of Empire
EP 442
EP 442 The Last Soviet Citizen
EP 443
EP 443 Derek Walcott
EP 444
EP 444 Zhang Yimou
EP 445
EP 445 Philip Roth
EP 446
EP 446 Only the Names Have Been Changed
EP 447
EP 447 Weegee
EP 448
EP 448 Duchamp's Fountain
EP 449
EP 449 Edgar Reitz: Return to Heimat
EP 450
EP 450 Tales Of Rock And Roll: Peggy Sue
EP 451
EP 451 Not a Bad Girl
EP 452
EP 452 Heartbreak Hotel
EP 453
EP 453 Walk on the Wild Side
EP 454
EP 454 Highway 61 Revisited
EP 455
EP 455 Arena: Radio Night: Introduction
EP 456
EP 456 Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio: First: the Infant.
EP 457
EP 457 Radio Night: TV Talk, Radio Rabbit What does the voice reveal?
EP 458
EP 458 Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 2: The Schoolboy.
EP 459
EP 459 Radio Night: Heard But Not Seen
EP 460
EP 460 Radio Night: Back to Square One
EP 461
EP 461 Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 3: The Lover.
EP 462
EP 462 Radio Night: Sunday Dinner
EP 463
EP 463 Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 4: The Soldier.
EP 464
EP 464 Radio Night: Pirates
EP 465
EP 465 Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 5: The Judge.
EP 466
EP 466 Radio Night: TV Theft, Radio Rip-Off
EP 467
EP 467 Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 6: The Old Man.
EP 468
EP 468 Radio Night: The Spot FX Man
EP 469
EP 469 Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 7: Senility.
EP 470
EP 470 Radio Night: It's Life, Jim
EP 471
EP 471 Radio Night: The Time Signal
EP 472
EP 472 Radio Night: The Two Voyages of Donald Crowhurst
EP 473
EP 473 Radio Night: The Shipping Forecast
EP 474
EP 474 The Next Voice You Hear
EP 475
EP 475 In Search of Oz
EP 476
EP 476 Who Is Vladimir Pozner?
EP 477
EP 477 The Dark Side of Black
EP 478
EP 478 The Ring - a South London Tale
EP 479
EP 479 Glitterbug
EP 480
EP 480 Theatre without Actors
EP 481
EP 481 Kalashnikov
EP 482
EP 482 Trouble Man - the Last Years of Marvin Gaye
EP 483
EP 483 Relics Introduction
EP 484
EP 484 Relics: Einstein's Brain
EP 485
EP 485 Relics: Curse of the Firebeetle
EP 486
EP 486 Relics: The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin
EP 487
EP 487 Philip K Dick - a Day In the Afterlife
EP 488
EP 488 Voices from the Island
EP 489
EP 489 Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here but Me
EP 490
EP 490 Bahia of all the Saints
EP 491
EP 491 Sandra Bernhard - Confession of a Pretty Lady
EP 492
EP 492 Louise Bourgeois
EP 493
EP 493 The Peter Sellers Story 1
EP 494
EP 494 The Peter Sellers Story: 2: Jack to Jacques
EP 495
EP 495 The Peter Sellers Story: 3: I Am Not a Funny Man
EP 496
EP 496 Punk and the Pistols
EP 497
EP 497 The Burger and the King
EP 498
EP 498 Stories My Country Told Me
EP 499
EP 499 Tony Bennett's New York
EP 500
EP 500 Caesar's Writers
EP 501
EP 501 There's No Such Thing as a Small Head of State
EP 502
EP 502 Dear Antonioni
EP 503
EP 503 Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Underground
EP 504
EP 504 Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Football is the Faith
EP 505
EP 505 Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: The Price of Glory
EP 506
EP 506 The Banana
EP 507
EP 507 Cigars - out of the Humidor
EP 508
EP 508 The Noel Coward Trilogy: The Boy Actor
EP 509
EP 509 The Noel Coward Trilogy: Captain Coward
EP 510
EP 510 The Noel Coward Trilogy: Sail Away
EP 511
EP 511 Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
EP 512
EP 512 The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow
EP 513
EP 513 The Brian Epstein Story: Tomorrow Never Knows
EP 514
EP 514 Cuba Night: the 40-Year Face-off
EP 515
EP 515 Cuba Night: Eisenhower, Kennedy and Khrushchev: How It All Began
EP 516
EP 516 Cuba Night: A Diamond in the Rough
EP 517
EP 517 Cuba Night: LBJ, Nixon and Brezhnev: the Middle Years
EP 518
EP 518 Cuba Night: The Simpsons: The Trouble with Trillions
EP 519
EP 519 Cuba Night: Reagan and Gorbachev: Castro, Cuba and the Fall of Communism
EP 520
EP 520 Cuba Night: Who Owns Che? The Importance of Not Being Ernesto
EP 521
EP 521 Cuba Night: The Clinton Years: Cuba Today and Tomorrow
EP 522
EP 522 Salman Rushdie and the Ground beneath His Feet
EP 523
EP 523 Looking for the Iron Curtain
EP 524
EP 524 Casanova
EP 525
EP 525 Blondes - Jayne Mansfield
EP 526
EP 526 Blondes - Diana Dors
EP 527
EP 527 Blondes - Anita Ekberg
EP 528
EP 528 The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
EP 529
EP 529 The Veil
EP 530
EP 530 Wisconsin Death Trip
EP 531
EP 531 Clint Eastwood: Out of the West
EP 532
EP 532 Clint Eastwood: American Film-maker
EP 533
EP 533 James Ellroy's Feast of Death
EP 534
EP 534 And the Winner Is ...
EP 535
EP 535 Budd Schulberg - a Contender
EP 536
EP 536 The Source
EP 537
EP 537 Salgado - the Spectre of Hope
EP 538
EP 538 Stalin - the Red God
EP 539
EP 539 According to Beryl
EP 540
EP 540 Night of Entertainers: Sykes and a Day
EP 541
EP 541 Night of Entertainers: Drake's Progress
EP 542
EP 542 Night of Entertainers: The 1812 Overture in E Flat Major Opus 49
EP 543
EP 543 Night of Entertainers: Max Bygraves - I Wanna Tell You a Story
EP 544
EP 544 The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 1
EP 545
EP 545 The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 2
EP 546
EP 546 Estonia Dreams of Eurovision
EP 547
EP 547 Kurosawa: Part One
EP 548
EP 548 Kurosawa: Part Two
EP 549
EP 549 The Peter Sellers Story: As He Filmed It
EP 550
EP 550 Harold Pinter: 1: The Room
EP 551
EP 551 Harold Pinter: 2: Celebration
EP 552
EP 552 One for the Road
EP 553
EP 553 Politics and Pinter
EP 554
EP 554 The Room
EP 555
EP 555 Radio Ha! Meet the Dead Ringers
EP 556
EP 556 Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute
EP 557
EP 557 I Am from Nowhere
EP 558
EP 558 The Real Jane Austen
EP 559
EP 559 The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough: Part One
EP 560
EP 560 The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough: Part Two
EP 561
EP 561 Imagine Imagine
EP 562
EP 562 Dylan Thomas - from Grave to Cradle
EP 563
EP 563 Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made
EP 564
EP 564 Alec Guinness, a Secret Man
EP 565
EP 565 Pavarotti - the Last Tenor
EP 566
EP 566 Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
EP 567
EP 567 Shadowing the Third Man
EP 568
EP 568 Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
EP 569
EP 569 Painting the Clouds - a Portrait of Dennis Potter
EP 570
EP 570 Dennis Potter: It's In the Songs! It's In the Songs!
EP 571
EP 571 Potter on Television
EP 572
EP 572 Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues
EP 573
EP 573 Calling Hedy Lamarr
EP 574
EP 574 Francis Bacon's Arena
EP 575
EP 575 Arena at 30
EP 576
EP 576 Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 1
EP 577
EP 577 Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 2
EP 578
EP 578 Dylan in the Madhouse
EP 579
EP 579 The Princess and Panorama
EP 580
EP 580 Routemasters! The Double Decker Bus Conductors
EP 581
EP 581 Galton and Simpson
EP 582
EP 582 Pete Doherty
EP 583
EP 583 Saints
EP 584
EP 584 The Archers
EP 585
EP 585 The Underground
EP 586
EP 586 Bob Marley - Exodus 77
EP 587
EP 587 Encountering Bergman
EP 588
EP 588 Bergman and Faro Island
EP 589
EP 589 Bergman and the Cinema
EP 590
EP 590 Flames of Passion: the Other Side of British Cinema
EP 591
EP 591 The Original Archers
EP 592
EP 592 Tribute Bands - into the Limelight
EP 593
EP 593 Tribute Bands - Live at the Limelight
EP 594
EP 594 Dylan's Folk - the Pure, the Bad and the Holy
EP 595
EP 595 The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival
EP 596
EP 596 Dylan in the Madhouse
EP 597
EP 597 Ken Dodd's Happiness
EP 598
EP 598 The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul
EP 599
EP 599 Cab Driver
EP 600
EP 600 The Hunt for Moby-Dick
EP 601
EP 601 Whale Night: The Whale in the Museum
EP 602
EP 602 Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 1: Baleen
EP 603
EP 603 Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 2: Toothed
EP 604
EP 604 Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 3: Arctic
EP 605
EP 605 The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector
EP 606
EP 606 Paul Scofield
EP 607
EP 607 Tony Bennett: the Music Never Ends
EP 608
EP 608 Cool
EP 609
EP 609 TS Eliot
EP 610
EP 610 Harold Pinter Night: The Birthday Party
EP 611
EP 611 Brian Eno - Another Green World
EP 612
EP 612 Harold Pinter - A Celebration
EP 613
EP 613 Johnny Mercer - The Dream's on Me
EP 614
EP 614 Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way
EP 615
EP 615 Rolf Harris Paints His Dream
EP 616
EP 616 Produced by George Martin
EP 617
EP 617 George Harrison: Living in the Material World: Part 1
EP 618
EP 618 George Harrison: Living in the Material World: Part 2
EP 619
EP 619 Dickens on Film
EP 620
EP 620 Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes
EP 621
EP 621 Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued!
EP 622
EP 622 The Dreams of William Golding
EP 623
EP 623 Jonathan Miller
EP 624
EP 624 Amy Winehouse - The Day She Came to Dingle
EP 625
EP 625 The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour: Episode 1: Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
EP 626
EP 626 The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour: Episode 2: 'The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour
EP 627
EP 627 Screen Goddesses
EP 628
EP 628 Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel
EP 629
EP 629 aka Norman Parkinson
EP 630
EP 630 Arena: The National Theatre: Part One - The Dream
EP 631
EP 631 Arena: The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace
EP 632
EP 632 Whatever Happened to Spitting Image?
EP 633
EP 633 The National Theatre: Learning Zone
EP 634
EP 634 The 50 Year Argument - The New York Review of Books
EP 635
EP 635 Nicolas Roeg - It's About Time
EP 636
EP 636 Night and Day
EP 637
EP 637 Loretta Lynn - Still a Mountain Girl
EP 638
EP 638 All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film
EP 639
EP 639 1966 - 50 Years Ago Today
EP 640
EP 640 The Roundhouse - The People's Palace
EP 641
EP 641 Alone with Chrissie Hynde
EP 642
EP 642 American Epic: Episode 1: The Big Bang
EP 643
EP 643 American Epic: Episode 2: Blood and Soil
EP 644
EP 644 Kirsty Young: 75 Years of Desert Island Discs
EP 645
EP 645 American Epic: Episode 3: Out of the Many, the One
EP 646
EP 646 American Epic: Episode 4: The Sessions
EP 647
EP 647 Stanley and his Daughters
EP 648
EP 648 Bob Dylan – Trouble No More
EP 649
EP 649 Nothing Like a Dame
EP 650
EP 650 Make Me Up!
EP 651
EP 651 Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything
EP 652
EP 652 That Summer
EP 653
EP 653 Cindy Sherman #untitled
EP 654
EP 654 Kusama: Infinity
EP 655
EP 655 Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
EP 656
EP 656 Bergman: A Year in the Life
EP 657
EP 657 The $50 Million Art Swindle
EP 658
EP 658 A British Guide to the End of the World
EP 659
EP 659 Everything Is Connected - George Eliot's Life
EP 660
EP 660 Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens
EP 661
EP 661 Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall
EP 662
EP 662 The Changin’ Times of Ike White
EP 663
EP 663 I Am Not Your Negro
EP 664
EP 664 Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
EP 665
EP 665 Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat
EP 666
EP 666 My Father and Me
EP 667
EP 667 Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes
EP 668
EP 668 African Apocalypse
EP 669
EP 669 Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture
EP 670
EP 670 Painted with My Hair
EP 671
EP 671 B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From?
EP 672
EP 672 The Vasulka Effect
EP 673
EP 673 The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
EP 674
EP 674 River
EP 675
EP 675 James Joyce’s Ulysses
EP 676
EP 676 T.S. Eliot: Into the Waste Land
EP 677
EP 677 Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters
EP 678
EP 678 Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
EP 679
EP 679 The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld
EP 680
EP 680 The Stones and Brian Jones
EP 681
EP 681 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
EP 682
EP 682 Coco Chanel Unbuttoned
EP 683
EP 683 Being Kae Tempest
EP 684
EP 684 Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
EP 685
EP 685 Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story
EP 686
EP 686 Maria Callas: The Final Act
EP 687
EP 687 Alan Bennett 90 Years On

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