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Documentary
1975
NR
• 1 h. 30 min.
In broadcast
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.
Release:
October 01, 1975
Original language:
English
Production country:
United Kingdom
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Type:
Scripted
Status:
Returning Series
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Seasons
45
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Season 1
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Season 2
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Season 3
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1980
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Series 23
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Series 25
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Series 38
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Series 45
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Season 1978
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Season 1979
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Season 1980
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Season 1981
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Season 1982
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Season 1984
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Season 1985
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Season 1986
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Season 1987
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Season 1988
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Season 1989
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Season 1990
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Season 1991
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Season 1992
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Season 1993
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Season 1994
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Season 1996
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Season 2000
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Season 2001
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Season 2002
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Season 2003
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Season 2004
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Season 2005
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Season 2007
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Season 2008
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Season 2009
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Season 2010
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Season 2011
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Season 2012
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Season 2016
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Season 2017
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Season 2018
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Season 2019
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Season 2020
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Season 2021
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Season 2022
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Season 2001
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Cast
Peter Blake
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Paul Yates
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Kendo Nagasaki
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Sister Wendy Beckett
Herself (1 ep.)
Herself (1 ep.)
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Kenneth Anger
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Jayne Mansfield
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
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Gloria Swanson
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
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Tom Mix
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
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Gig Young
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
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James Dean
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
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Ramon Novarro
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
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Marianne Faithfull
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Michael McShane
Fatty Arbuckle / The God of Hollywood (as Mike McShane) (1 ep.)
Fatty Arbuckle / The God of Hollywood (as Mike McShane) (1 ep.)
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Aaron Stafford
The Young Kenneth Anger (1 ep.)
The Young Kenneth Anger (1 ep.)
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Tracy Vivat
Lupe Velez (as Tracey Vivat) (1 ep.)
Lupe Velez (as Tracey Vivat) (1 ep.)
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Loretta Lynn
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Willie Nelson
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Sheryl Crow
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Garth Brooks
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Jack White
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Sissy Spacek
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Penelope Wilton
Self - Narrator (1 ep.)
Self - Narrator (1 ep.)
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Paul Tickell
Self - Narrator (1 ep.)
Self - Narrator (1 ep.)
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Terry Hall
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Lynval Golding
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Neville Staple
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Adrian Thrills
Self/Host (1 ep.)
Self/Host (1 ep.)
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Jerry Dammers
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Pauline Black
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Rico Rodriguez
Self (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
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Mel Brooks
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(1 ep.)
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Michael Powell
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(1 ep.)
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Emeric Pressburger
(1 ep.)
(1 ep.)
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Louise Brooks
(1 ep.)
(1 ep.)
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Linda Hunt
Narrator (1 ep.)
Narrator (1 ep.)
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Eric Sykes
(1 ep.)
(1 ep.)
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