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Arena

1975 · NR · 1 season · 692 episodes

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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.

About 1038h to watch every episode. An estimate: 692 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 90 minutes.

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Main cast

  • Indira Varma
    Gila
    2 episodes

  • Tony Benn
    Self
    1 episode

  • James Brown
    1 episode

  • Gail Porter
    1 episode

  • Irvine Welsh
    1 episode

  • Katie Puckrik
    1 episode

  • David Baddiel
    1 episode

  • Harold Wilson
    1 episode

  • Francis Ford Coppola
    Self
    1 episode

  • Martin Scorsese
    Self
    1 episode

  • Tim Curry
    Eden Rothwell Esp.
    1 episode

  • Nicholas Lyndhurst
    Dennis
    1 episode

  • Robert Altman
    1 episode

  • Frank Westmore
    1 episode

  • Éric Rohmer
    1 episode

  • Mick Brownfield
    1 episode

  • Don Siegel
    1 episode

  • Ralph Steadman
    1 episode

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