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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.
Episode 20 : Invisible Ink
December. 04,1987
Documentary on the writings of Indians who travelled to Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries and wrote about their experiences.
Episode 19 : Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell
November. 27,1987
A courtroom 'drama' featuring Bob Guccione versus Ken Russell in a breach of con tract case regarding disagreements over a script for a film version of Daniel De foe's "Moll Flanders" which Guccione hired Russell to direct.
Episode 18 : Revolutionary With A Paintbox
November. 20,1987
A profile of Diego Rivera. The portrait compiles testimony from Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, ex-model and lover Bolores Olmedo and painter Jose Luis Cuevas. There is archive footage of Zapata, Trotsky and Rivera himself.
Episode 17 : Joseph Beuys
June. 06,1987
Documentary tracing the career of controversial German artist Joseph Beuys, from World War II up to his death in 1986.
Episode 16 : The Waugh Trilogy Part 3: An Englishman's Home
April. 20,1987
Episode 15 : The Waugh Trilogy Part 2: Mayfair And The Jungle
April. 19,1987
The most productive years of Waugh's writings. With comments from John Mortimer, Kingsley Amis, and Graham Greene.
Episode 14 : The Waugh Trilogy Part 1: Bright Young Thing
April. 18,1987
Three part pfofile of writer Evelyn Waugh. Covers the period of his early life with comments from Sir Harold Acton, Lady Diana Mosley, Anthony Powell, Peter Quennell and Graham Greene.
Episode 13 : Night Moves
April. 11,1987
Documentary on the personalities and machines of the trucking industry in Great Britain.
Episode 12 : Talk Is Cheap
April. 10,1987
Episode 10 : How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
March. 27,1987
Maria Von Trapp, Bob Guccione, Martin Scorsese, Mary O'Hara, Tony Monopoly and o thers talk about their training to become Roman Catholic monks, priests or nuns, and also discuss the similarity between the church and the world of arts and entertainment.
Episode 9 : Confessions of Robert Crumb
January. 01,0001
Episode 8 : Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinema
March. 13,1987
Beyond the edges of the frame influential filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky give the viewers a sense of time passing, time lost, and the relationship of one moment in time to another.
Episode 7 : A Brother With Perfect Timing
February. 27,1987
Documentary on jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim, a South African who moved to Amer ica in 1965. His music uses a blend of jazz and the traditional styles of South Africa.
Episode 6 : Ruth, Roses and Revolver
February. 20,1987
Director David Lynch presents a guide to the work of the Surrealists.
Episode 4 : Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas
February. 06,1987
Story of photographer Martin Chambi, a Peruvian Indian whose photographs of the Inca ruins and Peruvian society brought him to the forefront of revolutionary artistic and social movements in South America in the 1930's.
Episode 3 : Dennis Potter
January. 30,1987
Alan Yentob interviews TV dramatist Dennis Potter about his work through the years, touching on subjects such as why and how he started writing, his sense of being different as a child, the insularity of his past in Forest of Dean, starting at the BBC in 1959 and a failed attempt at going into politics.
Episode 2 : Night and Day
January. 23,1987
A 24 hour journey through the streets of London as seen by two writers. Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard explores the daylight hours, with thriler writer Celia Fremlin walking the hours of darkness.
Episode 1 : Art Spiegelman: Of Cats and Mice
January. 01,0001
Following the publication of his book 'Maus', a comic strip depicting cats and mice in the story of a young Jewish couple arrested and transported to Auschwitz, its creator comic-strip artist, Art Spiegelmann and his family, travel to Auschwitz for the first time.
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