| Title | : | Arena |
|---|---|---|
| Genre | : | Documentary |
| Overview | : | 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. |
All Episodes in Season 1
Episode 1 : Theatre
October 01, 1975
Episode 2 : Art and Design
October 08, 1975
Episode 3 : Theatre
October 15, 1975
Episode 4 : Art and Design
October 22, 1975
Episode 5 : Theatre
October 29, 1975
Episode 6 : Art and Design
November 05, 1975
Episode 7 : Theatre
November 12, 1975
Episode 8 : Art and Design
November 19, 1975
Episode 9 : Theatre
November 26, 1975
Episode 10 : Art and Design
December 03, 1975
Episode 11 : Theatre
December 10, 1975
Episode 12 : Art and Design
December 17, 1975
Episode 13 : Theatre
January 07, 1976
Episode 14 : Art and Design
January 14, 1976
Episode 15 : Theatre
January 21, 1976
Episode 16 : Art and Design
January 28, 1976
Episode 17 : Theatre
February 04, 1976
Episode 18 : Art and Design
February 11, 1976
Episode 19 : Theatre
February 18, 1976
Episode 20 : Art and Design
February 25, 1976
Episode 21 : Theatre
March 03, 1976
Episode 22 : Art and Design
March 10, 1976
Episode 23 : Theatre
March 17, 1976
Episode 24 : Art and Design
March 24, 1976
Episode 25 : Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court
March 31, 1976
Episode 26 : Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?
April 07, 1976
Episode 27 : Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1
August 25, 1976
Episode 28 : Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2
September 01, 1976
Episode 29 : Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3
September 08, 1976
Episode 30 : Theatre: A Dream Come True
September 15, 1976
Episode 31 : Robert Altman
September 22, 1976
Episode 32 : Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer
September 29, 1976
Episode 33 : Frank Westmore
October 06, 1976
Episode 34 : Theatre
October 13, 1976
Episode 35 : Cinema: Eric Rohmer
October 20, 1976
Episode 37 : Cinema: Don Siegel
November 03, 1976
Episode 38 : Theatre: The Cultural Common Market
November 10, 1976
Episode 39 : Cinema
November 17, 1976
Episode 41 : Cinema
December 01, 1976
Episode 42 : Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle
December 08, 1976
Episode 43 : Cinema: Christmas Special
December 15, 1976
Episode 44 : Cinema
January 05, 1977
Episode 45 : Art and Design: Sam Smith: Genuine England/Arena Review
January 12, 1977
Episode 46 : Cinema
January 19, 1977
Episode 47 : Theatre: Spokesong/At Home with Mole
January 26, 1977
Episode 48 : Cinema
February 02, 1977
Episode 49 : Art and Design: Ralph Steadman
February 09, 1977
Episode 50 : Cinema
February 16, 1977
Episode 52 : Cinema
March 02, 1977
Episode 54 : Cinema
March 16, 1977
Episode 55 : Theatre: A Night Out
March 23, 1977
Episode 56 : Cinema
March 30, 1977
Episode 58 : Cinema
April 13, 1977
Episode 59 : Theatre: The Prospect Before Us
April 20, 1977
Episode 60 : Cinema
April 27, 1977
Episode 62 : Cinema
May 11, 1977
Episode 63 : Cinema
May 25, 1977
Episode 64 : Cinema
June 08, 1977
Episode 65 : Theatre: Playwrights of the 70's
June 15, 1977
Episode 66 : Edinburgh Festival
September 07, 1977
Episode 67 : Cinema
September 14, 1977
Episode 68 : Cinema
September 21, 1977
Episode 69 : Art and Design
September 28, 1977
Episode 70 : Cinema
October 05, 1977
Episode 71 : Theatre
October 12, 1977
Episode 72 : Cinema: Greece
October 19, 1977
Episode 73 : Art and Design: Richard Seifert
October 26, 1977
Episode 74 : Cinema
November 02, 1977
Episode 75 : Theatre: Hands Off the Classics
November 09, 1977
Episode 76 : Cinema: 21st London Film Festival
November 16, 1977
Episode 77 : Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag
November 23, 1977
Episode 78 : Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 2
November 30, 1977
Episode 79 : Theatre: Leonard Rossiter
December 07, 1977
Episode 80 : Cinema: The Deep
December 14, 1977
Episode 81 : Cinema: The Force is with us?
January 11, 1978
Episode 83 : Cinema: The Force is with us? - Part 2/Howard Hawks
January 25, 1978
Episode 85 : Cinema: Joseph Conrad
February 08, 1978
Episode 86 : Art and Design: Carrington
February 15, 1978
Episode 87 : Cinema: Claude Renoir
February 22, 1978
Episode 89 : Close Encounters of the Third Kind
March 08, 1978
Episode 90 : Art and Design: Carl Andre
March 15, 1978
Episode 91 : Cinema: Dancing Years
March 22, 1978
Episode 92 : Theatre: Taking Our Time
March 29, 1978
Episode 93 : Art and Design: Way Out West
April 05, 1978
Episode 94 : Theatre: Children of the Gods
April 12, 1978
Episode 95 : Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?
April 17, 1978
Episode 96 : Art and Design: George Melly
May 03, 1978
Episode 97 : Theatre: Arnold Wesker
May 10, 1978
Episode 98 : Rock: Tubes on Tour
May 24, 1978
Episode 99 : Episode 99
October 11, 1978
Episode 100 : Vanessa Redgrave
October 18, 1978
Episode 101 : Arena: Cinema
October 25, 1978
Episode 102 : Arena: Cinema
November 22, 1978
Episode 103 : Arena: Cinema
December 06, 1978
Episode 104 : Arena: The Museum of Drawers
January 08, 1979
Episode 105 : On Photography
January 15, 1979
Episode 106 : Arena: Cinema
January 17, 1979
Episode 107 : Arena: Cinema
January 21, 1979
Episode 108 : Who is Poly Styrene?
January 22, 1979
Episode 109 : Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes
January 29, 1979
Episode 110 : Arena: Cinema
January 31, 1979
Episode 111 : Maler's Requiem - Words and Images
February 05, 1979
Episode 112 : Piaf AND What Did You Do in 'The Warp' Daddy?
February 12, 1979
Episode 113 : Arena: Cinema
February 14, 1979
Episode 115 : Arena: Cinema
February 28, 1979
Episode 116 : Ubu
March 05, 1979
Episode 117 : My Way
March 12, 1979
Episode 118 : Arena: Cinema
March 14, 1979
Episode 119 : La Dame aux Gladiolas
March 19, 1979
Episode 121 : Arena: Cinema
March 28, 1979
Episode 122 : Tell Us the Truth
April 02, 1979
Episode 124 : Their Lips are Sealed
April 15, 1979
Episode 125 : Steel Pulse
May 21, 1979
Episode 126 : Ring Around the Moon
June 11, 1979
Episode 127 : Pictures of the Mind
June 14, 1979
Episode 128 : Six Days in September
September 29, 1979
Episode 129 : Building for Change
January 16, 1979
Episode 130 : Athol Fugard A Lesson from Aloes
January 17, 1980
Episode 131 : Lene Lovich Sleeping Beauty
January 23, 1980
Episode 132 : Mentioned in Dispatches
January 30, 1980
Episode 133 : Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs Pupko's Beard
February 06, 1980
Episode 134 : Peggy Taub, the Learned Goat and Other People ...
February 13, 1980
Episode 135 : Bring Me Back a Song
February 27, 1980
Episode 136 : ' I talk about me - I am Africa'
March 05, 1980
Episode 138 : Working At It
March 19, 1980
Episode 139 : Victoria Wood and Andrea Dunbar
March 26, 1980
Episode 141 : Double Vision
April 09, 1980
Episode 142 : Dedicated Followers of Fashion
April 16, 1980
Episode 143 : Luck and Flaw
May 21, 1980
Episode 145 : Making 'The Shining'
October 04, 1980
Episode 146 : Dire Straits
December 22, 1980
Episode 147 : Chelsea Hotel
January 03, 1981
Episode 148 : Hazell Meets His Makers
January 10, 1981
Episode 149 : Getting Away from Sidney
January 17, 1981
Episode 150 : Private Worlds
January 24, 1981
Episode 151 : Today Carshalton Beaches ... Tomorrow Croydon
January 31, 1981
Episode 152 : Edward Hopper
January 01, 1970
Episode 153 : Stages
February 28, 1981
Episode 154 : The Smallest Theatre
March 07, 1981
Episode 155 : Huston's Hobby
March 14, 1981
Episode 156 : A Walk with Amos Oz
March 21, 1981
Episode 157 : God's Fifth Columnist
March 28, 1981
Episode 158 : Did You Miss Me ...?
April 04, 1981
Episode 159 : The Return of Lupino Lane
April 15, 1981
Episode 160 : The Comic Strip Hero
April 18, 1981
Episode 161 : Arena on Clair
May 02, 1981
Episode 162 : Somewhere Over the Rainbow
May 09, 1981
Episode 163 : If the Music Had to Stop
May 16, 1981
Episode 164 : Curtains? The Future of the National Youth Theatre
August 16, 1981
Episode 165 : The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda
September 06, 1981
Episode 166 : 'I Thought I Was Taller' A Short History of Mel Brooks
October 02, 1981
Episode 167 : Have You Seen the Mona Lisa...?
November 03, 1981
Episode 168 : Let Them Know We're Here
November 10, 1981
Episode 169 : A Pretty British Affair
November 17, 1981
Episode 170 : The Art of Radio Times AND The Eye of the 'Eye'
November 24, 1981
Episode 171 : A Tall Story: How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India
December 08, 1981
Episode 172 : Brixton to Barbados
December 15, 1981
Episode 173 : Private Life of the Ford Cortina
January 19, 1982
Episode 174 : What Makes Rabbit Run?
January 26, 1982
Episode 175 : Here They Kill People for It
February 02, 1982
Episode 176 : True to Life?
February 09, 1982
Episode 177 : Desert Island Discs
February 23, 1982
Episode 178 : Listen to Britain AND Housing Problems
March 09, 1982
Episode 179 : The Orson Welles Story: Part One
May 18, 1982
Episode 180 : The Orson Welles Story: Part Two
May 21, 1982
Episode 181 : Mike Leigh Making Plays
September 04, 1982
Episode 182 : A Genius Like Us
November 09, 1982
Episode 183 : A Play for Bridport
November 16, 1982
Episode 184 : Upon Westminster Bridge
November 23, 1982
Episode 185 : Three Steps to Heaven
November 30, 1982
Episode 186 : Angus McBean
December 08, 1982
Episode 187 : Happy Days (Samuel Beckett Season)
December 11, 1982
Episode 188 : Eh Joe (Samuel Beckett Season)
December 13, 1982
Episode 189 : Rockaby (Samuel Beckett Season)
December 14, 1982
Episode 190 : Not I (Samuel Beckett Season)
December 15, 1982
Episode 191 : Quad (Samuel Beckett Season)
December 16, 1982
Episode 192 : Krapp's Last Tape (Samuel Beckett Season)
December 17, 1982
Episode 193 : Guernica: The Long Exile
December 28, 1982
Episode 195 : Hair
February 01, 1983
Episode 196 : Boulez Now
February 08, 1983
Episode 197 : Jazz Juke Box
February 15, 1983
Episode 198 : Burroughs
February 22, 1983
Episode 199 : The Catherine Wheel
March 01, 1983
Episode 200 : Kurt Vonnegut
March 08, 1983
Episode 201 : It's All True
May 09, 1983
Episode 202 : Luis Bunuel
August 19, 1983
Episode 203 : Bette Davis - The Benevolent Volcano
November 02, 1983
Episode 204 : Anthony Powell - An Invitation to the Dance
November 09, 1983
Episode 205 : The Ghost Writer
November 12, 1983
Episode 206 : Jazz Juke-Box II
November 23, 1983
Episode 207 : Roman Vishniac
November 30, 1983
Episode 208 : Classic British Documentaries
December 07, 1983
Episode 209 : The GPO Story
December 14, 1983
Episode 210 : The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
December 23, 1983
Episode 211 : George Orwell 1: Such Such Were the Joys
December 29, 1983
Episode 212 : George Orwell 2: The Road to Wigan Pier
December 30, 1983
Episode 213 : George Orwell 3: Homage to Catalonia
January 02, 1984
Episode 214 : George Orwell 4: The Lion and the Unicorn
January 03, 1984
Episode 215 : George Orwell 4: Nineteen Eighty-four
January 04, 1984
Episode 216 : Say Amen Someone
February 04, 1984
Episode 217 : Four Rooms
February 21, 1984
Episode 218 : The Theatre of Dario Fo
February 28, 1984
Episode 219 : Sunset People
March 03, 1984
Episode 220 : The Caravaggio Conspiracy
March 06, 1984
Episode 221 : Between Dreaming and Waking
March 13, 1984
Episode 222 : Ken Russell 's Elgar
March 20, 1984
Episode 223 : Jerry Lee Lewis
March 27, 1984
Episode 224 : True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
April 03, 1984
Episode 225 : My Dinner with Louis
May 06, 1984
Episode 226 : Milan Kundera- Laughter and Forgetting
May 19, 1984
Episode 227 : A Tribute to Joseph Losey
July 07, 1984
Episode 228 : Beat This! A Hip Hop History
July 12, 1984
Episode 229 : The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience
November 02, 1984
Episode 230 : Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
November 09, 1984
Episode 231 : Eubie Blake
November 10, 1984
Episode 232 : Francis Bacon
November 16, 1984
Episode 233 : We Don't Like Your House Either!
November 23, 1984
Episode 234 : Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense: The Music of Fela Kuti
November 30, 1984
Episode 235 : After the Rehearsal
December 07, 1984
Episode 236 : What's Cuba Playing At?
December 21, 1984
Episode 237 : Music of the other Americas
December 22, 1984
Episode 238 : Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden
December 26, 1984
Episode 239 : My Son the Novelist
February 18, 1985
Episode 241 : Marcel Carne
February 27, 1985
Episode 243 : How Glorious is the Garden?
March 18, 1985
Episode 244 : Old Kent Road
March 25, 1985
Episode 245 : Ligmalion
April 08, 1985
Episode 246 : Them and Uz: A film about Tony Harrison
April 15, 1985
Episode 247 : Marc Chagall
April 22, 1985
Episode 248 : Watch Me Move...
April 29, 1985
Episode 249 : Hugh Masekela: The African Ambassador
May 06, 1985
Episode 250 : The Theatre of Robert Wilson
July 25, 1985
Episode 251 : Blues Night: Introduction
July 27, 1985
Episode 252 : Blues Night: Sonny Boy Williamson Sings
July 27, 1985
Episode 253 : Blues Night: B.B. King Speaks
July 27, 1985
Episode 254 : Blues Night: Chicago Blues
July 27, 1985
Episode 255 : Blues Night: Blind John Davis
July 28, 1985
Episode 256 : Blues Night: Blues Medley
July 28, 1985
Episode 257 : Blues Night: Big Bill Blues
July 28, 1985
Episode 258 : Buddy Holly
September 12, 1985
Episode 259 : Saint Genet
November 12, 1985
Episode 260 : The Accordion Strikes Back
November 19, 1985
Episode 261 : The Cinema of Francesco Rosi
November 26, 1985
Episode 262 : The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
December 03, 1985
Episode 263 : The Apollo Story: part 1
December 10, 1985
Episode 264 : The Apollo Story: part 2
December 17, 1985
Episode 265 : Tosca's Kiss
January 08, 1986
Episode 266 : The New Babylon
January 11, 1986
Episode 267 : Tango Mio
January 18, 1986
Episode 268 : Cinderella
January 21, 1986
Episode 269 : The Journey Man
January 28, 1986
Episode 270 : Go-Go in Washington DC
February 04, 1986
Episode 271 : Marguerite Yourcenar
February 11, 1986
Episode 272 : Louise Brooks
February 18, 1986
Episode 273 : Kurosawa
March 04, 1986
Episode 274 : Two Painters Amazed
March 11, 1986
Episode 275 : Home Front
March 25, 1986
Episode 276 : Caribbean Nights: Caribbean Journey
June 14, 1986
Episode 277 : Caribbean Nights: Medley
June 14, 1986
Episode 278 : Caribbean Nights: Poetry
June 14, 1986
Episode 279 : Caribbean Nights: Ska
June 14, 1986
Episode 280 : Caribbean Nights: The Latin Caribbean
June 14, 1986
Episode 282 : Caribbean Nights: Calypso and Carnival
June 15, 1986
Episode 284 : Caribbean Nights: Latin Sound
June 15, 1986
Episode 285 : Caribbean Nights: God's Chillun
June 15, 1986
Episode 286 : Caribbean Nights Bob Marley
June 15, 1986
Episode 288 : Caribbean Nights: Danzon
June 16, 1986
Episode 289 : Caribbean Nights: Rasta and the Ball
June 17, 1986
Episode 290 : Caribbean Nights: Arturo Sandoval
June 18, 1986
Episode 291 : Caribbean Nights: Kapo
June 19, 1986
Episode 292 : Henry Moore
September 07, 1986
Episode 293 : Salvador Dali
November 21, 1986
Episode 294 : The Life and Times of Don Luis Bunuel
November 22, 1986
Episode 295 : The Spirit of Lorca
November 28, 1986
Episode 296 : Cambodian Witness
December 05, 1986
Episode 297 : Scarfe on Scarfe
December 12, 1986
Episode 298 : Night Moves
December 19, 1986
Episode 299 : Dylan
January 02, 1987
Episode 300 : Stand by Your Dream: Tammy Wynette
January 16, 1987
Episode 301 : Night and Day
January 23, 1987
Episode 302 : Dennis Potter
January 30, 1987
Episode 303 : Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas
February 06, 1987
Episode 304 : The Confessions of Robert Crumb
February 13, 1987
Episode 305 : Ruth, Roses and Revolver
February 20, 1987
Episode 306 : A Brother with Perfect Timing
February 27, 1987
Episode 307 : Tarkovsky's Cinema
March 13, 1987
Episode 308 : Putting Ourselves in the Picture
March 20, 1987
Episode 309 : How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
March 27, 1987
Episode 310 : Bayan Ko Pilipinas
April 03, 1987
Episode 311 : Talk is Cheap
April 10, 1987
Episode 312 : The Waugh Trilogy: Bright Young Thing
April 18, 1987
Episode 313 : The Waugh Trilogy: Mayfair and the Jungle
April 19, 1987
Episode 314 : The Waugh Trilogy: An Englishman's Home
April 20, 1987
Episode 315 : German Festival: Joseph Beuys
June 06, 1987
Episode 316 : ScreenPlay: Cariani and the Courtesans
August 05, 1987
Episode 317 : Revolutionary with a Paintbox
November 20, 1987
Episode 318 : Invisible Ink
December 04, 1987
Episode 319 : Of Cats and Mice
December 18, 1987
Episode 320 : Woody Guthrie
January 08, 1988
Episode 321 : The Dandy-Beano Story
January 15, 1988
Episode 322 : Broadway - The Great White Way
January 22, 1988
Episode 323 : Ryszard Kapuscinski: Your Man Who is There
January 29, 1988
Episode 324 : The Emperor
February 05, 1988
Episode 325 : My Name Is Celia Cruz
February 12, 1988
Episode 326 : All on a Mardi Gras Day Part One
February 16, 1988
Episode 327 : All on a Mardi Gras Day: Part Two
February 16, 1988
Episode 328 : Kerouac
February 26, 1988
Episode 329 : An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 1
March 04, 1988
Episode 330 : An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 2
March 05, 1988
Episode 331 : Robert Mapplethorpe
March 18, 1988
Episode 332 : The English Thoroughbred
March 25, 1988
Episode 333 : Byrne About Byrne
April 01, 1988
Episode 334 : Rhythms of the World: Randy Travis at the Albert Hall
October 02, 1988
Episode 335 : Ten Green Bottles
November 25, 1988
Episode 336 : Clint Eastwood: The Man with No Name.
December 02, 1988
Episode 337 : Moving Across the World on Horses
December 09, 1988
Episode 338 : History Boys on the Rampage
December 16, 1988
Episode 339 : The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
December 23, 1988
Episode 340 : Tales from Barcelona
January 06, 1989
Episode 341 : Blackpool
January 13, 1989
Episode 342 : The Tip of the Iceberg
January 27, 1989
Episode 343 : Laurens van der Post and Albert Sample
February 03, 1989
Episode 344 : New York - The Secret African City
February 10, 1989
Episode 345 : Eugene Ionesco : the Joke's on Us
February 17, 1989
Episode 346 : John Cassavetes
February 24, 1989
Episode 347 : Power in the Blood
March 03, 1989
Episode 349 : Juke Box Jury
March 19, 1989
Episode 350 : Berthold Lubetkin
March 31, 1989
Episode 351 : Heavy Metal
April 07, 1989
Episode 352 : The Other Graham Greene
April 21, 1989
Episode 353 : Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 1: A Traveller's Tale
October 22, 1989
Episode 354 : Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 2: How High the Moon
October 29, 1989
Episode 355 : Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 3: My Dinner with Dizzy
November 05, 1989
Episode 356 : Animal Night: Smashing Pigs
December 16, 1989
Episode 357 : Animal Night: Sacred Elephant
December 16, 1989
Episode 358 : Animal Night: Great Wildlife Presenters Through the Ages
December 16, 1989
Episode 359 : Animal Night: John Daniel the First
December 16, 1989
Episode 360 : Animal Night: A Day in the Life of Sam the Dog
December 16, 1989
Episode 361 : Animal Night: Animals on Trial
December 16, 1989
Episode 362 : Animal Night: The Animal Night Debate
December 16, 1989
Episode 363 : 25 x 5: the Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones
December 27, 1989
Episode 364 : Numbers
January 19, 1990
Episode 365 : Oblomov
January 26, 1990
Episode 366 : Jerry Lee Lewis
February 02, 1990
Episode 367 : Roberto Rossellini
February 09, 1990
Episode 368 : Next Time Dear God Please Choose Someone Else
February 23, 1990
Episode 369 : Salif Keita
March 02, 1990
Episode 370 : Fred Zinnemann: A Director's Life
March 09, 1990
Episode 371 : Spike and Company - Do It a Cappella
March 16, 1990
Episode 372 : Peggy and Her Playwrights
March 23, 1990
Episode 373 : The English Rose
March 30, 1990
Episode 374 : Paris Is Burning
April 06, 1990
Episode 375 : Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
April 13, 1990
Episode 376 : Havana
April 15, 1990
Episode 377 : The Princess
April 20, 1990
Episode 379 : Le Paris Black
May 11, 1990
Episode 380 : Kino Perestroika
May 18, 1990
Episode 381 : The Daily Worker Story
May 25, 1990
Episode 383 : Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
September 20, 1990
Episode 384 : The Fever
September 29, 1990
Episode 385 : Food Night: Introduction
December 15, 1990
Episode 386 : Food Night: Modern Food
December 15, 1990
Episode 387 : Food Night: Great Moments in Food History
December 15, 1990
Episode 388 : Food Night: The Story of Food in 27 Minutes and 43 Seconds
December 15, 1990
Episode 389 : Food Night: Good Manners
December 15, 1990
Episode 390 : Food Night: What's Kosher?
December 15, 1990
Episode 391 : Food Night: The Last Supper
December 15, 1990
Episode 392 : Food Night: The Complete History of the Potato
December 15, 1990
Episode 393 : Food Night: I Just Happen to Have One Here I Made Earlier
December 15, 1990
Episode 394 : Food Night: Movable Feast - the Politics of Disgust
December 15, 1990
Episode 395 : Food Night: Eating for One
December 15, 1990
Episode 396 : Food Night: Fasting and Abstinence
December 15, 1990
Episode 397 : Food Night: Debate
December 15, 1990
Episode 398 : Lifepulse - a Natural Thriller
December 28, 1990
Episode 399 : Miller Meets Mandela
January 18, 1991
Episode 400 : Derek Jarman - a Portrait
January 25, 1991
Episode 401 : Anselm Kiefer : Operation Sealion
February 01, 1991
Episode 402 : The Strange Story of Joe Meek
February 08, 1991
Episode 403 : The Other Roci
February 22, 1991
Episode 404 : Caroline 199 - A Pirate's Tale
March 01, 1991
Episode 405 : Staring at the Ceiling
March 08, 1991
Episode 406 : Three Irish Writers
March 15, 1991
Episode 407 : One Irish Rover
March 16, 1991
Episode 408 : The Importance of Being Oscar
March 17, 1991
Episode 409 : The Other
March 22, 1991
Episode 410 : Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon
April 05, 1991
Episode 411 : Elmore Leonard 's Criminal Records
April 12, 1991
Episode 412 : The Human Face
April 19, 1991
Episode 413 : Texas Saturday Night
April 24, 1991
Episode 414 : The Grass Arena
January 19, 1992
Episode 415 : Billy, How Did You Do It? 1
January 23, 1992
Episode 416 : Billy, How Did You Do It? 2
January 24, 1992
Episode 417 : Billy, How Did You Do It? 3
January 25, 1992
Episode 418 : Masters of the Canvas
January 31, 1992
Episode 419 : Oliver Stone
February 07, 1992
Episode 420 : Fatwa
February 14, 1992
Episode 421 : Six Degrees of Separation: a New York Tale
February 21, 1992
Episode 422 : The Incredible Case of Comrade
February 28, 1992
Episode 423 : Croatia - the Artists' War
March 06, 1992
Episode 424 : Otto Dix : a Tale of Two Germanies
March 13, 1992
Episode 425 : Chi-Chi the Panda
March 20, 1992
Episode 426 : Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up
March 27, 1992
Episode 427 : Last Supper - Frank on Frank
April 03, 1992
Episode 433 : Linda McCartney, behind the Lens
December 26, 1992
Episode 434 : The Graham Green Trilogy: England Made Me (1904-39)
January 08, 1993
Episode 436 : The Graham Greene Trilogy: A World of My Own (1961-91)
January 10, 1993
Episode 437 : On the Road with Boggs
January 15, 1993
Episode 438 : The Grateful and the Dead
January 22, 1993
Episode 439 : A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie
January 29, 1993
Episode 440 : Larry Kramer
January 05, 1993
Episode 441 : Edward Said: the Idea of Empire
February 12, 1993
Episode 442 : The Last Soviet Citizen
February 19, 1993
Episode 443 : Derek Walcott
February 20, 1993
Episode 444 : Zhang Yimou
March 12, 1993
Episode 445 : Philip Roth
March 19, 1993
Episode 446 : Only the Names Have Been Changed
March 26, 1993
Episode 447 : Weegee
April 02, 1993
Episode 448 : Duchamp's Fountain
April 02, 1993
Episode 449 : Edgar Reitz: Return to Heimat
April 12, 1993
Episode 450 : Tales Of Rock And Roll: Peggy Sue
April 17, 1993
Episode 451 : Not a Bad Girl
April 18, 1993
Episode 452 : Heartbreak Hotel
April 24, 1993
Episode 453 : Walk on the Wild Side
May 01, 1993
Episode 454 : Highway 61 Revisited
May 08, 1993
Episode 455 : Arena: Radio Night: Introduction
December 18, 1993
Episode 456 : Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio: First: the Infant.
December 18, 1993
Episode 458 : Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 2: The Schoolboy.
December 18, 1993
Episode 459 : Radio Night: Heard But Not Seen
December 18, 1993
Episode 460 : Radio Night: Back to Square One
December 18, 1993
Episode 461 : Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 3: The Lover.
December 18, 1993
Episode 462 : Radio Night: Sunday Dinner
December 18, 1993
Episode 463 : Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 4: The Soldier.
December 18, 1993
Episode 464 : Radio Night: Pirates
December 31, 1993
Episode 465 : Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 5: The Judge.
December 18, 1993
Episode 466 : Radio Night: TV Theft, Radio Rip-Off
December 18, 1993
Episode 467 : Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 6: The Old Man.
December 18, 1993
Episode 468 : Radio Night: The Spot FX Man
December 18, 1993
Episode 469 : Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 7: Senility.
December 18, 1993
Episode 470 : Radio Night: It's Life, Jim
December 18, 1993
Episode 471 : Radio Night: The Time Signal
December 18, 1993
Episode 472 : Radio Night: The Two Voyages of Donald Crowhurst
December 18, 1993
Episode 473 : Radio Night: The Shipping Forecast
December 19, 1993
Episode 474 : The Next Voice You Hear
December 19, 1993
Episode 475 : In Search of Oz
January 29, 1994
Episode 476 : Who Is Vladimir Pozner?
February 05, 1994
Episode 477 : The Dark Side of Black
February 12, 1994
Episode 478 : The Ring - a South London Tale
February 26, 1994
Episode 479 : Glitterbug
March 05, 1994
Episode 480 : Theatre without Actors
March 12, 1994
Episode 481 : Kalashnikov
March 19, 1994
Episode 482 : Trouble Man - the Last Years of Marvin Gaye
March 26, 1994
Episode 483 : Relics Introduction
March 31, 1994
Episode 484 : Relics: Einstein's Brain
April 01, 1994
Episode 485 : Relics: Curse of the Firebeetle
April 02, 1994
Episode 486 : Relics: The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin
April 03, 1994
Episode 487 : Philip K Dick - a Day In the Afterlife
April 09, 1994
Episode 488 : Voices from the Island
April 23, 1994
Episode 489 : Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here but Me
April 24, 1994
Episode 490 : Bahia of all the Saints
May 07, 1994
Episode 492 : Louise Bourgeois
August 06, 1994
Episode 493 : The Peter Sellers Story 1
February 11, 1995
Episode 494 : The Peter Sellers Story: 2: Jack to Jacques
February 18, 1995
Episode 495 : The Peter Sellers Story: 3: I Am Not a Funny Man
February 25, 1995
Episode 496 : Punk and the Pistols
August 20, 1995
Episode 497 : The Burger and the King
January 01, 1996
Episode 498 : Stories My Country Told Me
July 14, 1996
Episode 499 : Tony Bennett's New York
December 22, 1996
Episode 500 : Caesar's Writers
December 24, 1996
Episode 501 : There's No Such Thing as a Small Head of State
January 02, 1997
Episode 502 : Dear Antonioni
January 18, 1997
Episode 506 : The Banana
December 24, 1997
Episode 507 : Cigars - out of the Humidor
December 25, 1997
Episode 508 : The Noel Coward Trilogy: The Boy Actor
April 11, 1998
Episode 509 : The Noel Coward Trilogy: Captain Coward
April 12, 1998
Episode 510 : The Noel Coward Trilogy: Sail Away
April 13, 1998
Episode 513 : The Brian Epstein Story: Tomorrow Never Knows
December 26, 1998
Episode 514 : Cuba Night: the 40-Year Face-off
January 02, 1999
Episode 516 : Cuba Night: A Diamond in the Rough
January 02, 1999
Episode 517 : Cuba Night: LBJ, Nixon and Brezhnev: the Middle Years
January 02, 1999
Episode 518 : Cuba Night: The Simpsons: The Trouble with Trillions
January 02, 1999
Episode 521 : Cuba Night: The Clinton Years: Cuba Today and Tomorrow
January 02, 1999
Episode 522 : Salman Rushdie and the Ground beneath His Feet
April 22, 1999
Episode 523 : Looking for the Iron Curtain
November 07, 1999
Episode 524 : Casanova
December 20, 1999
Episode 525 : Blondes - Jayne Mansfield
December 24, 1999
Episode 526 : Blondes - Diana Dors
December 26, 1999
Episode 527 : Blondes - Anita Ekberg
December 27, 1999
Episode 528 : The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
January 02, 2000
Episode 529 : The Veil
May 20, 2000
Episode 530 : Wisconsin Death Trip
July 02, 2000
Episode 531 : Clint Eastwood: Out of the West
December 24, 2000
Episode 532 : Clint Eastwood: American Film-maker
December 25, 2000
Episode 533 : James Ellroy's Feast of Death
May 06, 2001
Episode 534 : And the Winner Is ...
May 13, 2001
Episode 535 : Budd Schulberg - a Contender
May 19, 2001
Episode 536 : The Source
May 28, 2001
Episode 537 : Salgado - the Spectre of Hope
May 30, 2001
Episode 538 : Stalin - the Red God
May 31, 2001
Episode 539 : According to Beryl
October 06, 2001
Episode 540 : Night of Entertainers: Sykes and a Day
December 26, 2001
Episode 541 : Night of Entertainers: Drake's Progress
December 25, 2001
Episode 544 : The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 1
December 26, 2001
Episode 545 : The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 2
December 26, 2001
Episode 546 : Estonia Dreams of Eurovision
May 18, 2002
Episode 547 : Kurosawa: Part One
June 15, 2002
Episode 548 : Kurosawa: Part Two
June 22, 2002
Episode 549 : The Peter Sellers Story: As He Filmed It
August 24, 2002
Episode 550 : Harold Pinter: 1: The Room
October 26, 2002
Episode 551 : Harold Pinter: 2: Celebration
October 26, 2002
Episode 552 : One for the Road
October 26, 2002
Episode 553 : Politics and Pinter
October 30, 2002
Episode 554 : The Room
November 05, 2002
Episode 555 : Radio Ha! Meet the Dead Ringers
December 26, 2002
Episode 556 : Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute
December 26, 2002
Episode 557 : I Am from Nowhere
January 14, 2003
Episode 558 : The Real Jane Austen
June 12, 2003
Episode 559 : The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough: Part One
August 24, 2003
Episode 560 : The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough: Part Two
August 25, 2003
Episode 561 : Imagine Imagine
September 20, 2003
Episode 562 : Dylan Thomas - from Grave to Cradle
November 22, 2003
Episode 563 : Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made
December 19, 2003
Episode 564 : Alec Guinness, a Secret Man
December 29, 2003
Episode 565 : Pavarotti - the Last Tenor
May 29, 2004
Episode 566 : Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
July 09, 2004
Episode 567 : Shadowing the Third Man
October 02, 2004
Episode 568 : Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
December 09, 2004
Episode 569 : Painting the Clouds - a Portrait of Dennis Potter
December 25, 2004
Episode 570 : Dennis Potter: It's In the Songs! It's In the Songs!
January 02, 2005
Episode 571 : Potter on Television
January 09, 2005
Episode 572 : Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues
February 05, 2005
Episode 573 : Calling Hedy Lamarr
February 12, 2005
Episode 574 : Francis Bacon's Arena
March 19, 2005
Episode 575 : Arena at 30
September 03, 2005
Episode 576 : Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 1
September 26, 2005
Episode 577 : Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 2
September 27, 2005
Episode 578 : Dylan in the Madhouse
September 28, 2005
Episode 579 : The Princess and Panorama
November 08, 2005
Episode 580 : Routemasters! The Double Decker Bus Conductors
December 10, 2005
Episode 581 : Galton and Simpson
December 25, 2005
Episode 582 : Pete Doherty
November 12, 2006
Episode 583 : Saints
December 17, 2006
Episode 584 : The Archers
January 01, 2007
Episode 585 : The Underground
March 18, 2007
Episode 586 : Bob Marley - Exodus 77
June 03, 2007
Episode 587 : Encountering Bergman
July 13, 2007
Episode 588 : Bergman and Faro Island
July 13, 2007
Episode 589 : Bergman and the Cinema
July 14, 2007
Episode 590 : Flames of Passion: the Other Side of British Cinema
September 02, 2007
Episode 591 : The Original Archers
October 04, 2007
Episode 592 : Tribute Bands - into the Limelight
October 06, 2007
Episode 593 : Tribute Bands - Live at the Limelight
October 06, 2007
Episode 594 : Dylan's Folk - the Pure, the Bad and the Holy
October 14, 2007
Episode 596 : Dylan in the Madhouse
October 14, 2007
Episode 597 : Ken Dodd's Happiness
December 24, 2007
Episode 598 : The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul
April 10, 2008
Episode 599 : Cab Driver
July 26, 2008
Episode 600 : The Hunt for Moby-Dick
September 20, 2008
Episode 601 : Whale Night: The Whale in the Museum
September 21, 2008
Episode 602 : Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 1: Baleen
September 21, 2008
Episode 604 : Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 3: Arctic
September 21, 2008
Episode 605 : The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector
October 25, 2008
Episode 606 : Paul Scofield
December 24, 2008
Episode 607 : Tony Bennett: the Music Never Ends
February 14, 2009
Episode 608 : Cool
April 03, 2009
Episode 609 : TS Eliot
June 06, 2009
Episode 610 : Harold Pinter Night: The Birthday Party
July 26, 2009
Episode 611 : Brian Eno - Another Green World
January 22, 2010
Episode 612 : Harold Pinter - A Celebration
January 24, 2010
Episode 613 : Johnny Mercer - The Dream's on Me
April 04, 2010
Episode 614 : Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way
December 03, 2010
Episode 615 : Rolf Harris Paints His Dream
December 29, 2010
Episode 616 : Produced by George Martin
April 25, 2011
Episode 617 : George Harrison: Living in the Material World: Part 1
November 12, 2011
Episode 618 : George Harrison: Living in the Material World: Part 2
November 13, 2011
Episode 619 : Dickens on Film
January 10, 2012
Episode 620 : Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes
February 17, 2012
Episode 621 : Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued!
February 17, 2012
Episode 622 : The Dreams of William Golding
March 17, 2012
Episode 623 : Jonathan Miller
March 31, 2012
Episode 624 : Amy Winehouse - The Day She Came to Dingle
July 23, 2012
Episode 627 : Screen Goddesses
December 22, 2012
Episode 628 : Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel
December 25, 2012
Episode 629 : aka Norman Parkinson
April 21, 2013
Episode 630 : Arena: The National Theatre: Part One - The Dream
October 24, 2013
Episode 631 : Arena: The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace
October 31, 2013
Episode 632 : Whatever Happened to Spitting Image?
March 20, 2014
Episode 633 : The National Theatre: Learning Zone
April 02, 2014
Episode 635 : Nicolas Roeg - It's About Time
June 26, 2015
Episode 636 : Night and Day
November 22, 2015
Episode 637 : Loretta Lynn - Still a Mountain Girl
March 18, 2016
Episode 638 : All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film
April 24, 2016
Episode 639 : 1966 - 50 Years Ago Today
July 24, 2016
Episode 640 : The Roundhouse - The People's Palace
October 23, 2016
Episode 641 : Alone with Chrissie Hynde
February 10, 2017
Episode 642 : American Epic: Episode 1: The Big Bang
May 21, 2017
Episode 646 : American Epic: Episode 4: The Sessions
June 09, 2017
Episode 647 : Stanley and his Daughters
February 04, 2018
Episode 648 : Bob Dylan – Trouble No More
March 30, 2018
Episode 649 : Nothing Like a Dame
June 02, 2018
Episode 650 : Make Me Up!
November 04, 2018
Episode 652 : That Summer
July 07, 2019
Episode 653 : Cindy Sherman #untitled
July 28, 2019
Episode 654 : Kusama: Infinity
September 01, 2019
Episode 655 : Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
September 21, 2019
Episode 656 : Bergman: A Year in the Life
September 22, 2019
Episode 657 : The $50 Million Art Swindle
September 23, 2019
Episode 658 : A British Guide to the End of the World
November 04, 2019
Episode 659 : Everything Is Connected - George Eliot's Life
November 10, 2019
Episode 660 : Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens
December 30, 2019
Episode 661 : Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall
March 07, 2020
Episode 662 : The Changin’ Times of Ike White
May 18, 2020
Episode 663 : I Am Not Your Negro
June 20, 2020
Episode 664 : Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
July 04, 2020
Episode 665 : Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat
November 21, 2020
Episode 666 : My Father and Me
March 21, 2021
Episode 668 : African Apocalypse
May 22, 2021
Episode 670 : Painted with My Hair
October 31, 2021
Episode 671 : B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From?
November 21, 2021
Episode 672 : The Vasulka Effect
November 28, 2021
Episode 673 : The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
February 13, 2022
Episode 674 : River
July 25, 2022
Episode 675 : James Joyce’s Ulysses
September 07, 2022
Episode 676 : T.S. Eliot: Into the Waste Land
October 22, 2022
Episode 677 : Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters
November 27, 2022
Episode 679 : The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld
April 26, 2023
Episode 680 : The Stones and Brian Jones
May 15, 2023
Episode 681 : All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
June 04, 2023
Episode 682 : Coco Chanel Unbuttoned
September 15, 2023
Episode 683 : Being Kae Tempest
November 29, 2023
Episode 684 : Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
December 25, 2023
Episode 685 : Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story
December 26, 2023
Episode 686 : Maria Callas: The Final Act
December 29, 2024
Episode 687 : Alan Bennett 90 Years On
December 13, 2024
