Arena (1975)
Arena (1975)
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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

Nicola Roberts
Director

Mary Dickinson
Director

Anthony Wall
Director / Editor / Producer / Executive Producer

Nigel Finch
Director / Editor / Executive Producer

Vikram Jayanti
Director

Isobel Goodrich
Editor

David M. Thompson
Editor / Producer / Writer

Alan Yentob
Executive Producer / Producer

Debbie Geller
Producer / Executive Producer

Adam Low
Producer

Diana Mansfield
Executive Producer

Sue Willis
Unit Manager

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

Penelope Wilton
Self - Narrator

Paul Tickell
Self - Narrator / Director / Writer

Terry Hall
Self

Lynval Golding
Self

Neville Staple
Self

Adrian Thrills
Self/Host
Media.


Details.
Release DateOctober 1, 1975
StatusReturning Series
Seasons45
Episodes297
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
documentary filmmaking
Scripted
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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