Release Date

01 Oct, 1975

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

697/50

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Arena

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Season 1

01 Oct, 1975

Season 5

Interviews with Ventriliquists

Season 14

25 Nov, 1988

Season 49

Season 50

22 Nov, 2024

Actors

Crew

John Read

Nicholas Shakespeare

Harold Pinter

Debbie Geller

Debbie Geller

Diana Mansfield

Adam Low

Nigel Finch

Alan Yentob

Anthony Wall