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Arena

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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.

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Status
Returning Series
Language
EN
First aired
October 1, 1975
Last aired
December 29, 2024
Seasons
1
Episodes
692
Network
BBC FourBBC Two

Season 1

Episodes

No episodes found for this season.

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Cast & crew

Creative team
Showrunner
Diana Mansfield
Nigel Finch
Written by
John Read
Nicholas Shakespeare
Produced by
Debbie Geller
Adam Low

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