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Arena

Arena

7,2 /10 (9 Votes)
1975 EN 3 Seasons

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.

First air date

01/10/1975

Votes

9

Popularity

10.2

Genres

Status

Returning Series

Type

Scripted

Networks

BBC Four, BBC Two

Language

EN

Last air date

2024-12-29

Episodes

689

Episode runtime

90 min

Website

www.bbc.co.uk
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Season 1

692 episodes • 1975 • ⭐ 7,7

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Season 14

1 episodes

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Season 50

1 episodes • 2024

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