Arena (1975)
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Gavin Millar
Self - Presenter
Kenneth Tynan
Self
Jonathan Miller
Self
Paul McCartney
Self
B.B. King
Self - Guest
Philip Hoare
Self
Ian McKellen
Self
Anthony Haas
Writer
Duke Erikson
Writer
Bernard MacMahon
Writer
Allison McGourty
Writer
Martin Scorsese
Director
Nigel Finch
Director / Editor / Executive Producer
Vikram Jayanti
Director
Anthony Wall
Director / Editor / Executive Producer / Producer
Mary Dickinson
Director
David M. Thompson
Editor / Producer / Writer
Isobel Goodrich
Editor
Alan Yentob
Executive Producer / Producer
Debbie Geller
Producer / Executive Producer
Adam Low
Producer
Diana Mansfield
Executive Producer
Adrian Wootton
Producer / Writer
Nicholas Shakespeare
Writer
Harold Pinter
Writer
John Read
Writer
Jon Savage
Writer
Peter Blake
Self
Paul Yates
Self
Kendo Nagasaki
Self
Sister Wendy Beckett
Herself
Kenneth Anger
Self
Jayne Mansfield
Self (archive footage)
Gloria Swanson
Self (archive footage)
Tom Mix
Self (archive footage)
Gig Young
Self (archive footage)
James Dean
Self (archive footage)
Ramon Novarro
Self (archive footage)
Marianne Faithfull
Self
Michael McShane
Fatty Arbuckle / The God of Hollywood (as Mike McShane)
Aaron Stafford
The Young Kenneth Anger
Tracy Vivat
Lupe Velez (as Tracey Vivat)
Loretta Lynn
Self
Willie Nelson
Self
Sheryl Crow
Self
Garth Brooks
Self
Jack White
Self
Sissy Spacek
Self
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 1, 1975
StatusReturning Series
Seasons43
Episodes288
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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Wiki.
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC since 1 October 1975. Voted by TV executives in Broadcast magazine as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has produced more than six hundred episodes directed by, among others, Frederick Baker, Jana Boková, Jonathan Demme, Nigel Finch, Mary Harron, Vikram Jayanti, Vivian Kubrick, Paul Lee, Adam Low, Bernard MacMahon, James Marsh, Leslie Megahey, Volker Schlondorff, Martin Scorsese, Julien Temple, Anthony Wall, Leslie Woodhead, and Alan Yentob.
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