Arena Season 1987

- December | # of Episodes : 18

Ratings

6.6

Series Details

Seasons: 43

Total Episodes: 242

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Networks: BBC Four , BBC Two

Status: Returning Series

First Air Date: Oct 1, 1975

Recent Air Date: Feb 13, 2022

Run Time: m

In Production: Yes

Original Language: English

Age Rating: NR

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Episodes

Episode 1

- Art Spiegelman: Of Cats and Mice

Following the publication of his book 'Maus', a comic strip depicting cats and mice in the story of a young Jewish couple arrested and transported to Auschwitz, its creator comic-strip artist, Art Spiegelmann and his family, travel to Auschwitz for the first time.

Episode 2

23 January 1987 - Night and Day

A 24 hour journey through the streets of London as seen by two writers. Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard explores the daylight hours, with thriler writer Celia Fremlin walking the hours of darkness.

Episode 3

30 January 1987 - Dennis Potter

Alan Yentob interviews TV dramatist Dennis Potter about his work through the years, touching on subjects such as why and how he started writing, his sense of being different as a child, the insularity of his past in Forest of Dean, starting at the BBC in 1959 and a failed attempt at going into politics.

Episode 4

06 February 1987 - Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas

Story of photographer Martin Chambi, a Peruvian Indian whose photographs of the Inca ruins and Peruvian society brought him to the forefront of revolutionary artistic and social movements in South America in the 1930's.

Episode 6

20 February 1987 - Ruth, Roses and Revolver

Director David Lynch presents a guide to the work of the Surrealists.

Episode 7

27 February 1987 - A Brother With Perfect Timing

Documentary on jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim, a South African who moved to Amer ica in 1965. His music uses a blend of jazz and the traditional styles of South Africa.

Episode 8

13 March 1987 - Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinema

Beyond the edges of the frame influential filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky give the viewers a sense of time passing, time lost, and the relationship of one moment in time to another.

Episode 9

- Confessions of Robert Crumb

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Episode 10

27 March 1987 - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?

Maria Von Trapp, Bob Guccione, Martin Scorsese, Mary O'Hara, Tony Monopoly and o thers talk about their training to become Roman Catholic monks, priests or nuns, and also discuss the similarity between the church and the world of arts and entertainment.

Episode 12

10 April 1987 - Talk Is Cheap

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Episode 13

11 April 1987 - Night Moves

Documentary on the personalities and machines of the trucking industry in Great Britain.

Episode 14

18 April 1987 - The Waugh Trilogy Part 1: Bright Young Thing

Three part pfofile of writer Evelyn Waugh. Covers the period of his early life with comments from Sir Harold Acton, Lady Diana Mosley, Anthony Powell, Peter Quennell and Graham Greene.

Episode 15

19 April 1987 - The Waugh Trilogy Part 2: Mayfair And The Jungle

The most productive years of Waugh's writings. With comments from John Mortimer, Kingsley Amis, and Graham Greene.

Episode 16

20 April 1987 - The Waugh Trilogy Part 3: An Englishman's Home

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Episode 17

06 June 1987 - Joseph Beuys

Documentary tracing the career of controversial German artist Joseph Beuys, from World War II up to his death in 1986.

Episode 18

20 November 1987 - Revolutionary With A Paintbox

A profile of Diego Rivera. The portrait compiles testimony from Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, ex-model and lover Bolores Olmedo and painter Jose Luis Cuevas. There is archive footage of Zapata, Trotsky and Rivera himself.

Episode 19

27 November 1987 - Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell

A courtroom 'drama' featuring Bob Guccione versus Ken Russell in a breach of con tract case regarding disagreements over a script for a film version of Daniel De foe's "Moll Flanders" which Guccione hired Russell to direct.

Episode 20

04 December 1987 - Invisible Ink

Documentary on the writings of Indians who travelled to Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries and wrote about their experiences.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Executive Producer	Diana Mansfield Debbie Geller Nigel Finch Alan Yentob Anthony Wall
	Producer	Adam Low Debbie Geller Anthony Wall Alan Yentob
Writing	Writer	Nicholas Shakespeare John Read Harold Pinter
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