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Running · 1975–

Arena

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Arena is the BBC's multi award-winning arts strand. Founded in 1975, Arena continues to produce gold standard documentaries for the BBC and world service.

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Season 1975 · 12 episodes
  1. S1975 E01 · Theatre: Lilian Baylis & the Old Vic/David Hockney & the Rake's Progress
  2. S1975 E02 · Art and Design: How They Sold the 70s/Space Studios
  3. S1975 E03 · Theatre: Howard Barker/Kenneth Tynan/Birds of Paradise
  4. S1975 E04 · Art and Design: New Yorker/Serpentine Gallery/Jarrow
  5. S1975 E05 · Theatre: National Theatre
  6. S1975 E06 · Art and Design: Painting the End of the World/Landscape Photography/Sci-Fi Illustrations
  7. S1975 E07 · Theatre: News Round-up
  8. S1975 E08 · Art and Design: Shirley Conran/Barry Lategan/Edward Burne-Jones
  9. S1975 E09 · Theatre: News Round-up
  10. S1975 E10 · Art and Design: Landscape into Art/Charles Tomlinson
  11. S1975 E11 · Theatre: Mikhail Baryshnikov/Albert Finney
  12. S1975 E12 · Art and Design: Forgotten Heritage
Season 1976 · 31 episodes
  1. S1976 E01 · Theatre: News Round-up
  2. S1976 E02 · Art and Design: News Round-up
  3. S1976 E03 · Theatre: News Round-up
  4. S1976 E04 · Art and Design: Paul Strand
  5. S1976 E05 · Theatre: Just Between Ourselves
  6. S1976 E06 · Art and Design: Keith Grant
  7. S1976 E07 · Theatre: What is Great Acting?
  8. S1976 E08 · Art and Design: Sculpture
  9. S1976 E09 · Theatre: Paris
  10. S1976 E10 · Art and Design: Video Artists
  11. S1976 E11 · Theatre: Goodbye to a Building?
  12. S1976 E12 · Art and Design: The New Realism Painting
  13. S1976 E13 · Theatre: Happy Birthday, Royal Court Theatre
  14. S1976 E14 · Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?
  15. S1976 E15 · Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1
  16. S1976 E16 · Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2
  17. S1976 E17 · Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3
  18. S1976 E18 · Theatre: Manchester Royal Exchange
  19. S1976 E19 · Cinema: Robert Altman
  20. S1976 E20 · Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer
  21. S1976 E21 · Cinema: Frank Westmore
  22. S1976 E22 · Theatre: Peter Shaffer
  23. S1976 E23 · Cinema: Eric Rohmer
  24. S1976 E24 · Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manham/The Swish of the Curtain
  25. S1976 E25 · Cinema: Don Siegel
  26. S1976 E26 · Theatre: The Cultural Common Market
  27. S1976 E27 · Cinema: British Cinema
  28. S1976 E28 · Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell
  29. S1976 E29 · Cinema: 'The Long Vacation of 36'
  30. S1976 E30 · Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle
  31. S1976 E31 · Cinema: Christmas Special
Season 1977 · 35 episodes
  1. S1977 E01 · Cinema: Mel Brooks
  2. S1977 E02 · Art and Design: Sam Smith: Genuine England/Arena Review
  3. S1977 E03 · Cinema: The Front
  4. S1977 E04 · Theatre: Spokesong/At Home with Mole
  5. S1977 E05 · Cinema: News
  6. S1977 E06 · Art and Design: Ralph Steadman
  7. S1977 E07 · Cinema: Network
  8. S1977 E08 · Theatre: The Cultural Common Market: Peter Stein and the Schaubuhne
  9. S1977 E09 · Cinema: Z
  10. S1977 E10 · Art and Design: What Is a Hologram?/Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon
  11. S1977 E11 · Cinema: A Star is Born
  12. S1977 E12 · Theatre: A Night Out
  13. S1977 E13 · Cinema: Ealing Studios
  14. S1977 E14 · Art and Design: Family Pieces/Both Sides of the Line/The Divine and the Fantastic
  15. S1977 E15 · Cinema: Bernardo Bertolucci
  16. S1977 E16 · Theatre: The Prospect Before Us
  17. S1977 E17 · Cinema: Bernardo Bertolucci Part 2
  18. S1977 E18 · Art and Design: The Continuous Diary/Dine's Drawings
  19. S1977 E19 · Cinema: Erotic Films
  20. S1977 E20 · Cinema: Sophia Loren
  21. S1977 E21 · Edinburgh Festival
  22. S1977 E22 · Cinema: John Frankenheimer
  23. S1977 E23 · Cinema: New York, New York
  24. S1977 E24 · Art and Design: Achtung Minen! The work of Ian Hamilton Finlay
  25. S1977 E25 · Cinema: Annie Hall
  26. S1977 E26 · Theatre: Noel Coward in The Gorbals
  27. S1977 E27 · Cinema: Greece
  28. S1977 E28 · Art and Design: Richard Seifert
  29. S1977 E29 · Cinema: News Round-up
  30. S1977 E30 · Theatre: Hands Off the Classics
  31. S1977 E31 · Cinema: 21st London Film Festival
  32. S1977 E32 · Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag
  33. S1977 E33 · Cinema: 21st London Film Festival Part 2
  34. S1977 E34 · Theatre: Leonard Rossiter
  35. S1977 E35 · Cinema: The Deep
Season 1978 · 23 episodes
  1. S1978 E01 · Cinema: The Force is with us?
  2. S1978 E02 · Art and Design: The Journey/Henry Moore Meets Leonardo
  3. S1978 E03 · Cinema: The Force is with us? Part 2 / Howard Hawks
  4. S1978 E04 · Theatre: The Cherry Orchard
  5. S1978 E05 · Cinema: Conrad on Screen
  6. S1978 E06 · Art and Design: Carrington/Robert Motherwell/Michael McKinnon
  7. S1978 E07 · Cinema: Claude Renoir
  8. S1978 E08 · Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...
  9. S1978 E09 · Cinema: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  10. S1978 E10 · Art and Design: Carl Andre/Madame Stravinsky
  11. S1978 E11 · Cinema: Dancing Years/Roseland
  12. S1978 E12 · Theatre: Taking Our Time
  13. S1978 E13 · Art and Design: Way Out West
  14. S1978 E14 · Theatre: Children of the Gods
  15. S1978 E15 · Television: When Is a Play Not a Play?
  16. S1978 E16 · Art and Design: George Melly
  17. S1978 E17 · Theatre: John Byrne/Arnold Wesker
  18. S1978 E18 · Rock: Tubes on Tour
  19. S1978 E19 · Cinema: François Truffaut/Bill Douglas
  20. S1978 E20 · Theatre: Vanessa Redgrave
  21. S1978 E21 · Cinema: Hooray for Hollywood?
  22. S1978 E22 · Cinema: The Thirty-Nine Steps
  23. S1978 E23 · Cinema: A Report from Bombay
Season 1979 · 23 episodes
  1. S1979 E01 · The Museum of Drawers
  2. S1979 E02 · On Photography
  3. S1979 E03 · Cinema: News Round-up
  4. S1979 E04 · Who is Poly Styrene?
  5. S1979 E05 · Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes
  6. S1979 E06 · Cinema: John Carpenter and star Donald Pleasence
  7. S1979 E07 · Maler's Requiem
  8. S1979 E08 · Piaf/What Did You Do in ' The Warp ' Daddy?
  9. S1979 E09 · Cinema: John Barry
  10. S1979 E10 · Other Writers Will Tell You Different....
  11. S1979 E11 · Cinema: Isabelle Huppert
  12. S1979 E12 · Arena Presents Ubu
  13. S1979 E13 · My Way
  14. S1979 E14 · Cinema: Don Siegel
  15. S1979 E15 · La Dame aux Gladiolas: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Edna Everage
  16. S1979 E16 · 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On
  17. S1979 E17 · Cinema: Kung Fu, Run Run Shaw and Bruce Lee
  18. S1979 E18 · Tell Us the Truth
  19. S1979 E19 · The King and I
  20. S1979 E20 · Their Lips are Sealed
  21. S1979 E21 · Rock: The Tubes on Tour
  22. S1979 E22 · Pictures of the Mind
  23. S1979 E23 · Six Days in September
Season 1980 · 17 episodes
  1. S1980 E01 · Building for Change
  2. S1980 E02 · Lene Lovich - Sleeping Beauty
  3. S1980 E03 · Mentioned in Dispatches
  4. S1980 E04 · Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs Pupko's Beard
  5. S1980 E05 · Peggy Taub, the Learned Goat and Other People ...
  6. S1980 E06 · Bring Me Back a Song
  7. S1980 E07 · ' I talk about me - I am Africa'
  8. S1980 E08 · Rudies Come Back or The Rise and Rise of 2-Tone
  9. S1980 E09 · Working at It
  10. S1980 E10 · Left: Andrea Dunbar Right: Victoria Wood
  11. S1980 E11 · Climb Every Mountain or Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
  12. S1980 E12 · Arena presents Double Vision
  13. S1980 E13 · Dedicated Followers of Fashion
  14. S1980 E14 · Luck and Flaw
  15. S1980 E15 · In Their Own Image
  16. S1980 E16 · Making The Shining
  17. S1980 E17 · Dire Straits
Season 1981 · 26 episodes
  1. S1981 E01 · Chelsea Hotel
  2. S1981 E02 · Hazell Meets His Makers
  3. S1981 E03 · Getting Away from Sidney
  4. S1981 E04 · Private Worlds
  5. S1981 E05 · Today Carshalton Beeches... Tomorrow Croydon
  6. S1981 E06 · Edward Hopper
  7. S1981 E07 · Stages
  8. S1981 E08 · The Smallest Theatre...
  9. S1981 E09 · Huston's Hobby
  10. S1981 E10 · A Walk with Amos Oz
  11. S1981 E11 · God's Fifth Columinist
  12. S1981 E12 · Did You Miss Me?
  13. S1981 E13 · The Return of Lupino Lane
  14. S1981 E14 · The Comic Strip Hero
  15. S1981 E15 · Arena on Clair
  16. S1981 E16 · Somewhere Over the Rainbow...
  17. S1981 E17 · If the Music Had to Stop...
  18. S1981 E18 · Curtains?
  19. S1981 E19 · The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda
  20. S1981 E20 · "I Thought I Was Taller" - A Short History of Mel Brooks
  21. S1981 E21 · Have You Seen the Mona Lisa?
  22. S1981 E22 · Let Them Know We're Here
  23. S1981 E23 · A Pretty British Affair
  24. S1981 E24 · The Art of Radio Times and The Eye of the "Eye"
  25. S1981 E25 · A Tall Story - How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India
  26. S1981 E26 · Brixton to Barbados
Season 1982 · 22 episodes
  1. S1982 E01 · The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
  2. S1982 E02 · What Makes Rabbit Run?
  3. S1982 E03 · Here They Kill People for It
  4. S1982 E04 · Listen to Britain
  5. S1982 E05 · True to Life?
  6. S1982 E06 · Desert Island Discs
  7. S1982 E07 · Housing Problems
  8. S1982 E08 · The Orson Welles Story: Part One
  9. S1982 E09 · The Orson Welles Story: Part Two
  10. S1982 E10 · Mike Leigh Making Plays
  11. S1982 E11 · A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
  12. S1982 E12 · A Play for Bridport
  13. S1982 E13 · Upon Westminster Bridge
  14. S1982 E14 · Eddie Cochran: Three Steps to Heaven
  15. S1982 E15 · Angus McBean
  16. S1982 E16 · Samuel Beckett Season: Happy Days
  17. S1982 E17 · Samuel Beckett Season: Eh Joe
  18. S1982 E18 · Samuel Beckett Season: Rockaby
  19. S1982 E19 · Samuel Beckett Season: Not I
  20. S1982 E20 · Samuel Beckett Season: Quad
  21. S1982 E21 · Samuel Beckett Season: Last Tape
  22. S1982 E22 · Guernica - The Long Exile
Season 1983 · 19 episodes
  1. S1983 E01 · Last Waltz In Vienna
  2. S1983 E02 · Classically Cuban: Alicia Alonso and the Cuban National Ballet
  3. S1983 E03 · Hair: By Their Hair Shall Ye Know Them...
  4. S1983 E04 · Boulez Now
  5. S1983 E05 · Jazz Juke Box I
  6. S1983 E06 · Burroughs
  7. S1983 E07 · The Catherine Wheel
  8. S1983 E08 · Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes
  9. S1983 E09 · It's All True
  10. S1983 E10 · The Life and Times of Don Luis Bunuel
  11. S1983 E11 · Borges and I
  12. S1983 E12 · Bette Davis - The Benevolent Volcano
  13. S1983 E13 · Anthony Powell - An Invitation to the Dance
  14. S1983 E14 · The Ghost Writer
  15. S1983 E15 · Jazz Juke-Box II
  16. S1983 E16 · The GPO Story
  17. S1983 E17 · The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
  18. S1983 E18 · George Orwell: Part 1 - Such, Such Were the Joys
  19. S1983 E19 · George Orwell: Part 2 - Road to Wigan Pier
Season 1984 · 27 episodes
  1. S1984 E01 · George Orwell Part 3: Homage to Catalonia
  2. S1984 E02 · George Orwell Part 4: The Lion and the Unicorn
  3. S1984 E03 · George Orwell Part 5: Nineteen Eighty-four
  4. S1984 E04 · Say Amen Someone
  5. S1984 E05 · Dame Edna Everage - A Birthday Tribute
  6. S1984 E06 · Four Rooms
  7. S1984 E07 · The Theatre of Dario Fo
  8. S1984 E08 · Sunset People
  9. S1984 E09 · The Caravaggio Conspiracy
  10. S1984 E10 · Between Dreaming and Waking
  11. S1984 E11 · Ken Russell 's Elgar
  12. S1984 E12 · Jerry Lee Lewis: Live in Bristol 1984
  13. S1984 E13 · True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
  14. S1984 E14 · My Dinner with Louis
  15. S1984 E15 · Milan Kundera - Laughter and Forgetting
  16. S1984 E16 · A Tribute to Joseph Losey
  17. S1984 E17 · Beat This! A Hip Hop History
  18. S1984 E18 · The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience
  19. S1984 E19 · Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
  20. S1984 E20 · Eubie Blake
  21. S1984 E21 · Francis Bacon
  22. S1984 E22 · We Don't Like Your House Either!
  23. S1984 E23 · Teacher Don't Teach Me: Nonsense - The Music of Fela Kuti
  24. S1984 E24 · After the Rehearsal
  25. S1984 E25 · What's Cuba Playing At?
  26. S1984 E26 · Music of the other Americas
  27. S1984 E27 · Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden
Season 1985 · 18 episodes
  1. S1985 E01 · Watch Me Move....
  2. S1985 E02 · Hugh Masekela - The African Ambassador
  3. S1985 E03 · The Theatre of Robert Wilson
  4. S1985 E04 · Sonny Boy Williamson Sings
  5. S1985 E05 · B.B. King Speaks
  6. S1985 E06 · Chicago Blues
  7. S1985 E07 · Blind John Davis
  8. S1985 E08 · Blues Medley
  9. S1985 E09 · Big Bill Blues
  10. S1985 E10 · Robert Wilson on the Civil Warpath
  11. S1985 E11 · The Real Buddy Holly Story
  12. S1985 E12 · Saint Genet
  13. S1985 E13 · The Accordion Strikes Back
  14. S1985 E14 · The Cinema of Francesco Rosi
  15. S1985 E15 · The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
  16. S1985 E16 · Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
  17. S1985 E17 · The Apollo Story: Part 1
  18. S1985 E18 · The Apollo Story: Part 2
Season 1986 · 21 episodes
  1. S1986 E01 · Arena Presents Tosca's Kiss
  2. S1986 E02 · The New Babylon
  3. S1986 E03 · Tango Mio
  4. S1986 E04 · Cinderella
  5. S1986 E05 · The Journey Man
  6. S1986 E06 · Go-Go in Washington DC
  7. S1986 E07 · Marguerite Yourcenar
  8. S1986 E08 · Kurosawa
  9. S1986 E09 · Caribbean Nights - Bob Marley
  10. S1986 E10 · Caribbean Nights - C.L.R. James's First Cricket XI
  11. S1986 E11 · Caribbean Nights - Danzon
  12. S1986 E12 · Caribbean Nights - Rasta and the Ball
  13. S1986 E13 · Caribbean Nights - Arturo Sandoval
  14. S1986 E14 · Caribbean Nights - Kapo
  15. S1986 E15 · Henry Moore
  16. S1986 E16 · Jerry Lee Lewis
  17. S1986 E17 · Salvador Dali
  18. S1986 E18 · The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
  19. S1986 E19 · The Spirit of Lorca Federico Garcia
  20. S1986 E20 · Scarfe on Scarfe
  21. S1986 E21 · Night Moves
Season 1987 · 20 episodes
  1. S1987 E01 · Stand by Your Dream (The Tammy Wynette Story)
  2. S1987 E02 · Night and Day
  3. S1987 E03 · Dennis Potter
  4. S1987 E04 · Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas
  5. S1987 E05 · Confessions of Robert Crumb
  6. S1987 E06 · Ruth, Roses and Revolver
  7. S1987 E07 · A Brother with Perfect Timing
  8. S1987 E08 · Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinema
  9. S1987 E09 · Putting Ourselves in the Picture
  10. S1987 E10 · How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
  11. S1987 E11 · Bayan Ko Pilipinas
  12. S1987 E12 · Talk is Cheap
  13. S1987 E13 · Night Moves
  14. S1987 E14 · The Waugh Trilogy Part 1: Bright Young Thing
  15. S1987 E15 · The Waugh Trilogy Part 2: Mayfair and the Jungle
  16. S1987 E16 · The Waugh Trilogy Part 3: An Englishman's Home
  17. S1987 E17 · Joseph Beuys
  18. S1987 E18 · Revolutionary with a Paintbox
  19. S1987 E19 · Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell
  20. S1987 E20 · Invisible Ink
Season 1988 · 15 episodes
  1. S1988 E01 · Woody Guthrie
  2. S1988 E02 · The Dandy-Beano Story
  3. S1988 E03 · Broadway - The Great White Way
  4. S1988 E04 · Ryszard Kapuscinski: Your Man Who is There
  5. S1988 E05 · The Emperor
  6. S1988 E06 · My Name Is Celia Cruz
  7. S1988 E07 · An Andalucian Journey
  8. S1988 E08 · Robert Mapplethorpe
  9. S1988 E09 · The English Thoroughbred
  10. S1988 E10 · Byrne About Byrne
  11. S1988 E11 · Ten Green Bottles
  12. S1988 E12 · Clint Eastwood
  13. S1988 E13 · Moving Across the World on Horses
  14. S1988 E14 · History Boys on the Rampage
  15. S1988 E15 · The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
Season 1989 · 14 episodes
  1. S1989 E01 · Tales of Barcelona
  2. S1989 E02 · Blackpool
  3. S1989 E03 · The Tip of the Iceberg
  4. S1989 E04 · Laurens Van Der Post and Albert Sample
  5. S1989 E05 · New York - The Secret African City
  6. S1989 E06 · Eugene Ionesco: The Joke's on Us
  7. S1989 E07 · John Cassavetes
  8. S1989 E08 · Power in the Blood
  9. S1989 E09 · The Old Brass Plate Rattle Test - The Englishman and His Jukebox
  10. S1989 E10 · Juke Box Jury
  11. S1989 E11 · Lubetkin Thoughts of a Twentieth Century Anarchist
  12. S1989 E12 · Heavy Metal
  13. S1989 E13 · The Other Graham Greene
  14. S1989 E14 · 25 X 5 The Continuing Adventures of The Rolling Stones
Season 1990 · 9 episodes
  1. S1990 E01 · Numbers
  2. S1990 E02 · Jerry Lee Lewis
  3. S1990 E03 · Roberto Rossellini
  4. S1990 E04 · Next Time Dear God Please Choose Someone Else
  5. S1990 E05 · Salif Keita
  6. S1990 E06 · Paris Is Burning
  7. S1990 E07 · Jana Bokova's Havana
  8. S1990 E08 · Oooh er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story
  9. S1990 E09 · Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
Season 1991 · 16 episodes
  1. S1991 E01 · Miller Meets Mandela
  2. S1991 E02 · Derek Jarman - A Portrait
  3. S1991 E03 · Anselm Kiefer: Operation Sealion
  4. S1991 E04 · The Very Strange Story of... The Legendary Joe Meek
  5. S1991 E05 · Mardi Gras
  6. S1991 E06 · Caroline 199 - A Pirate's Tale
  7. S1991 E07 · Staring at the Ceiling
  8. S1991 E08 · Three Irish Writers
  9. S1991 E09 · One Irish Rover
  10. S1991 E10 · The Importance of Being Oscar
  11. S1991 E11 · The Other Roci
  12. S1991 E12 · Lifepulse
  13. S1991 E13 · Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon
  14. S1991 E14 · Elmore Leonard's Criminal Records
  15. S1991 E15 · The Human Face
  16. S1991 E16 · The Complete Citizen Kane
Season 1992 · 6 episodes
  1. S1992 E01 · Billy, How Did You Do It? - Part 1
  2. S1992 E02 · Billy, How Did You Do It? - Part 2
  3. S1992 E03 · Billy, How Did You Do It? - Part 3
  4. S1992 E04 · Masters of the Canvas
  5. S1992 E05 · Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up
  6. S1992 E06 · Linda McCartney - Behind the Lens
Season 1993 · 15 episodes
  1. S1993 E01 · A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie
  2. S1993 E02 · Edward Said: The Idea of Empire
  3. S1993 E03 · Philip Roth
  4. S1993 E04 · Tales of Rock 'n' Roll: Walk on the Wild Side
  5. S1993 E05 · The Time Signal
  6. S1993 E06 · The Last Soviet Citizen
  7. S1993 E07 · Derek Walcott
  8. S1993 E08 · Zhang Yimou - A Story of China
  9. S1993 E09 · Only the Names Have Been Changed....
  10. S1993 E10 · Weegee
  11. S1993 E11 · Duchamp's Fountain
  12. S1993 E12 · Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue
  13. S1993 E13 · Not a Bad Girl
  14. S1993 E14 · Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Heartbreak Hotel
  15. S1993 E15 · Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Highway 61 Revisited
Season 1994 · 13 episodes
  1. S1994 E01 · In Search of Oz
  2. S1994 E02 · Who Is Vladimir Pozner?
  3. S1994 E03 · The Dark Side of Black
  4. S1994 E04 · The Two Voyages of Donald Crowhurst
  5. S1994 E05 · Glitterbug - Derek Jarman
  6. S1994 E06 · Theatre without Actors
  7. S1994 E07 · Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife
  8. S1994 E08 · Voices from the Island
  9. S1994 E09 · Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here but Me
  10. S1994 E10 · Bahia of All the Saints
  11. S1994 E11 · Sandra Bernhard - Confession of a Pretty Lady
  12. S1994 E12 · The Ring - A South London Tale
  13. S1994 E13 · Louise Bourgeois
Season 1995 · 4 episodes
  1. S1995 E01 · The Peter Sellers Story Part 1 - From Southsea to Shepperton
  2. S1995 E02 · The Peter Sellers Story Part 2 - From Jack to Jacques
  3. S1995 E03 · The Peter Sellers Story Part 3 - I am Not a Funny Man
  4. S1995 E04 · Punk and the Pistols
Season 1996 · 3 episodes
  1. S1996 E01 · The Burger & the King: The Life & Cuisine of Elvis Presley
  2. S1996 E02 · Tony Bennett 's New York
  3. S1996 E03 · Caesar's Writers
Season 1997 · 6 episodes
  1. S1997 E01 · Cigars - Out of the Humidor
  2. S1997 E16 · There 's No Such Thing as a Small Head of State
  3. S1997 E17 · Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Underground
  4. S1997 E18 · Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Football is the Faith
  5. S1997 E19 · Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: The Price of Glory
  6. S1997 E20 · The Banana
Season 1998 · 2 episodes
  1. S1998 E01 · The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow
  2. S1998 E02 · The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow (Part 2)
Season 1999 · 7 episodes
  1. S1999 E01 · The 40-Year Face-off
  2. S1999 E02 · Salman Rushdie and the Ground beneath His Feet
  3. S1999 E03 · Looking for the Iron Curtain
  4. S1999 E04 · Casanova
  5. S1999 E05 · Blondes - Jayne Mansfield
  6. S1999 E06 · Blondes - Diana Dors
  7. S1999 E07 · Blondes - Anita Ekberg
Season 2000 · 3 episodes
  1. S2000 E01 · Wisconsin Death Trip
  2. S2000 E02 · The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
  3. S2000 E03 · The Veil
Season 2001 · 10 episodes
  1. S2001 E01 · James Ellroy's Feast of Death
  2. S2001 E02 · And the Winner is...
  3. S2001 E03 · Budd Schulberg - a Contender
  4. S2001 E04 · The Source
  5. S2001 E05 · Salgado - the Spectre of Hope
  6. S2001 E06 · Stalin - the Red God
  7. S2001 E07 · According to Beryl
  8. S2001 E08 · Sykes and a Day
  9. S2001 E09 · The Private Dirk Bogarde
  10. S2001 E10 · Max Bygraves: I Wanna Tell You a Story
Season 2002 · 6 episodes
  1. S2002 E01 · Harold Pinter - Part One: The Room
  2. S2002 E02 · Harold Pinter - Part Two: Celebration
  3. S2002 E03 · One for the Road
  4. S2002 E04 · The Room
  5. S2002 E05 · Radio Ha! Meet Dead Ringers
  6. S2002 E06 · Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute
Season 2003 · 6 episodes
  1. S2003 E01 · Dylan Thomas - From Grave to Cradle
  2. S2003 E02 · Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made
  3. S2003 E03 · Alec Guinness: A Secret Man
  4. S2003 E05 · Imagine Imagine
  5. S2003 E06 · The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough - Part 1
  6. S2003 E07 · The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough - Part 2
Season 2004 · 5 episodes
  1. S2004 E01 · Pavarotti: The Last Tenor
  2. S2004 E02 · Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
  3. S2004 E03 · Shadowing the Third Man
  4. S2004 E04 · Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
  5. S2004 E05 · Painting the Clouds: A Portrait of Dennis Potter
Season 2005 · 9 episodes
  1. S2005 E01 · Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues
  2. S2005 E02 · Calling Hedy Lamarr
  3. S2005 E03 · Francis Bacon's Arena
  4. S2005 E04 · Arena at 30
  5. S2005 E05 · No Direction Home - Bob Dylan Part 1
  6. S2005 E06 · No Direction Home - Bob Dylan Part 2
  7. S2005 E07 · The Princess and Panorama
  8. S2005 E08 · Routemasters! The Double Decker Bus Conductors
  9. S2005 E09 · Lunch with Galton and Simpson
Season 2006 · 3 episodes
  1. S2006 E01 · Chi-Chi the Panda
  2. S2006 E02 · Pete Doherty
  3. S2006 E03 · Saints
Season 2007 · 16 episodes
  1. S2007 E01 · The Underground
  2. S2007 E02 · Bob Marley Exodus '77
  3. S2007 E03 · Encountering Bergman
  4. S2007 E04 · Bergman and Faro Island: Arena
  5. S2007 E05 · Bergman and the Cinema: Arena
  6. S2007 E06 · Art and Design: The Journey
  7. S2007 E07 · Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
  8. S2007 E08 · The Comic Strip Hero
  9. S2007 E09 · Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute
  10. S2007 E10 · The Archers
  11. S2007 E11 · Into the Limelight - Tribute Bands
  12. S2007 E12 · Tribute Bands - Live
  13. S2007 E13 · Dylan's Folk - the Pure, the Bad and the Holy
  14. S2007 E14 · The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival
  15. S2007 E15 · Ken Dodd's Happiness
  16. S2007 E16 · Shadowing the Third Man
Season 2008 · 6 episodes
  1. S2008 E01 · The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul
  2. S2008 E02 · Cab Driver
  3. S2008 E03 · The Hunt for Moby Dick
  4. S2008 E04 · The Whale in the Museum
  5. S2008 E05 · The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector
  6. S2008 E06 · Paul Scofield
Season 2009 · 3 episodes
  1. S2009 E01 · Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
  2. S2009 E02 · Cool
  3. S2009 E03 · T.S. Eliot
Season 2010 · 6 episodes
  1. S2010 E01 · Brian Eno - Another Green World
  2. S2010 E02 · Harold Pinter - A Celebration
  3. S2010 E03 · Frank Sinatra - The Voice of the Century
  4. S2010 E04 · Johnny Mercer - The Dream's on Me
  5. S2010 E05 · Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way
  6. S2010 E06 · Rolf Harris Paints His Dream
Season 2011 · 3 episodes
  1. S2011 E01 · Produced by George Martin
  2. S2011 E02 · George Harrison: Living in the Material World - Part 1
  3. S2011 E03 · George Harrison: Living in the Material World - Part 2
Season 2012 · 10 episodes
  1. S2012 E01 · Dickens on Film
  2. S2012 E02 · Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes
  3. S2012 E03 · Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued!
  4. S2012 E04 · The Dreams of William Golding
  5. S2012 E05 · Jonathan Miller
  6. S2012 E06 · Amy Winehouse - The Day She Came to Dingle
  7. S2012 E07 · The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour - 1. Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
  8. S2012 E08 · The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour - 2. 'The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour
  9. S2012 E09 · Screen Goddesses
  10. S2012 E10 · Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel
Season 2013 · 3 episodes
  1. S2013 E01 · aka Norman Parkinson
  2. S2013 E02 · The National Theatre Part One: The Dream
  3. S2013 E03 · The National Theatre Part Two: War and Peace
Season 2014 · 3 episodes
  1. S2014 E01 · Whatever Happened to Spitting Image?
  2. S2014 E02 · The National Theatre - Learning Zone
  3. S2014 E03 · The 50 Year Argument - The New York Review of Books
Season 2015 · 2 episodes
  1. S2015 E01 · Nicolas Roeg - It's About Time
  2. S2015 E02 · Night and Day
Season 2016 · 4 episodes
  1. S2016 E01 · Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
  2. S2016 E02 · All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film
  3. S2016 E03 · 1966 - 50 Years Ago Today
  4. S2016 E04 · The Roundhouse - The People's Palace
Season 2017 · 6 episodes
  1. S2017 E01 · Alone with Chrissie Hynde
  2. S2017 E02 · American Epic Part 1: The Big Bang
  3. S2017 E03 · American Epic Part 2: Blood and Soil
  4. S2017 E04 · Kirsty Young: 75 Years of Desert Island Discs
  5. S2017 E05 · American Epic Part 3: Out of the Many, the One
  6. S2017 E06 · American Epic Part 4: The Sessions
Season 2018 · 4 episodes
  1. S2018 E01 · Stanley and His Daughters
  2. S2018 E02 · Bob Dylan - Trouble No More
  3. S2018 E03 · Nothing Like a Dame
  4. S2018 E04 · Make Me Up!
Season 2019 · 8 episodes
  1. S2019 E01 · Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything
  2. S2019 E02 · That Summer
  3. S2019 E03 · Cindy Sherman #untitled
  4. S2019 E04 · Kusama: Infinity
  5. S2019 E05 · Bergman: A Year in the Life
  6. S2019 E07 · A British Guide to the End of the World
  7. S2019 E08 · Everything Is Connected - George Eliot's Life
  8. S2019 E09 · Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens
Season 2020 · 5 episodes
  1. S2020 E01 · Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall
  2. S2020 E02 · The Changin' Times of Ike White
  3. S2020 E03 · I Am Not Your Negro
  4. S2020 E04 · Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
  5. S2020 E05 · Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat
Season 2021 · 8 episodes
  1. S2021 E01 · My Father and Me
  2. S2021 E02 · Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes
  3. S2021 E03 · African Apocalypse
  4. S2021 E04 · Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture
  5. S2021 E05 · Dylan Thomas: From Grave to Cradle
  6. S2021 E06 · Painted with My Hair
  7. S2021 E07 · B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From?
  8. S2021 E08 · The Vasulka Effect
Season 2022 · 5 episodes
  1. S2022 E01 · The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
  2. S2022 E02 · River
  3. S2022 E03 · James Joyce's Ulysses
  4. S2022 E04 · TS Eliot: Into the Waste Land
  5. S2022 E05 · Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters
Season 2023 · 6 episodes
  1. S2023 E01 · Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
  2. S2023 E02 · The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld
  3. S2023 E03 · The Stones and Brian Jones
  4. S2023 E04 · All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  5. S2023 E05 · Coco Chanel Unbuttoned
  6. S2023 E06 · Being Kae Tempest
Season 2025 · 2 episodes
  1. S2025 E01 · Steven McRae: Dancing Back To The Light
  2. S2025 E02 · My Brain: After the Rupture
Season 2026 · 1 episodes
  1. S2026 E01 · Kim Novak's Vertigo

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