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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 26 : Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?
April. 07,1976
Barrie Penrose investigates a multi-national art empire and the artists and methods that created it.
Episode 25 : Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court
March. 31,1976
Alumni of the Royal Court celebrate its 20th anniversary.
Episode 24 : Art and Design
March. 24,1976
Liverpool poet and painter Adrian Henry visits 'The Face of Merseyside'; Boyd and Evans use photographs as the basis of their explorations of everyday life.
Episode 23 : Theatre
March. 17,1976
Barbara Jefford, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Kenneth Tynan Billie Whitelaw and many of the people behind the scenes say goodbye to the Old Vic building.
Episode 22 : Art and Design
March. 10,1976
Arena presents the work of British and American video artists.
Episode 21 : Theatre
March. 03,1976
Arena brings extracts from Paris' contemporary theatre season, including Frank Wedekind's 'Lulu' and Marguerite Duras' 'Days in the Tree', and an interview with Delphine Seyrig.
Episode 20 : Art and Design
February. 25,1976
Arena talks with Robert Janz and Dante Leonelli about incorporating time into sculpture.
Episode 19 : Theatre
February. 18,1976
Claire Bloom and Kenneth Tynan discuss extracts from Samuel Beckett's 'Happy Days', George Bernard Shaw's 'Too True to be Good', and Tennessee Williams' 'Sweet Bird of Youth'.
Episode 18 : Art and Design
February. 11,1976
Arena looks at aspects of community art and the work of painter Keith Grant, artist-in-residence at the New Charing Cross Hospital.
Episode 17 : Theatre
February. 04,1976
Arena goes to Scarborough for the British premiere of a new Alan Ayckbourn play "Just Between Ourselves".
Episode 16 : Art and Design
January. 28,1976
A look at American photographer Paul Strand and recent trends in British photography.
Episode 15 : Theatre
January. 21,1976
Jonathan Miller introduces this week's look at what is most stimulating and enjoyable on the theatrical scene.
Episode 14 : Art and Design
January. 14,1976
Episode 13 : Theatre
January. 07,1976
Deborah Norton returns with reports, interviews and extracts from what is liveliest and best in the British theatrical scene.
Episode 12 : Art and Design
December. 17,1975
Filmmaker Roger Graef and journalist Simon Jenkins discuss the destruction of historical buildings, in light of a recent SAVE campaign report and the conclusion of the European Architectural Heritage Year.
Episode 11 : Theatre
December. 10,1975
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova rehearse for a BBC New Year Gala Performance; Kenneth Tynan draws a portrait of Albert Finney.
Episode 10 : Art and Design
December. 03,1975
Guest columnist Terry Measham; a look into the work of painter and poet Charles Tomlinson.
Episode 9 : Theatre
November. 26,1975
Deborah Norton reviews British stage events, a play extract, and Kenneth Tynan opines about the theatre.
Episode 8 : Art and Design
November. 19,1975
Shirley Conran is the guest columnist; fashion photographer Barry Lategan is filmed working; and Victorian painter Edward Burne-Jones' London exhibition.
Episode 7 : Theatre
November. 12,1975
Extract from a contemporary play and Kenneth Tynan opines.
Episode 6 : Art and Design
November. 05,1975
Features Observer critic William Feaver on Painting the End of the World, Bill Brandt's selection of landscape photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the best of science fiction illustration.
Episode 5 : Theatre
October. 29,1975
Peter Hall talks about the history and new South Band location of the National Theater, where he is artistic director.
Episode 4 : Art and Design
October. 22,1975
Cartoonist Mel Caiman on the New Yorker magazine and its artists, Richard Hamilton at the Serpentine Gallery, and a new documentary exhibition from Jarrow.
Episode 3 : Theatre
October. 15,1975
An interview with Howard Barker, author of 'Stripwell', and an extract from same; commentary by Kenneth Tynan; and an investigation of 'Birds of Paradise'.
Episode 2 : Art and Design
October. 08,1975
George Melly looks at how they sold the 70's and a report on the opening of the Space Studios.
Episode 1 : Theatre
October. 01,1975
Premiere. Ronald Eyre reviews what's going on in the theatre, Kenneth Tynan talks to Laurence Olivier about Lilian Baylis and The Old Vic, and a film about David Hockney's sets for The Rake's Progress.
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