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Arena Season 1978

October. 11,1978

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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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Arena Season 1978 Full Episode Guide

Episode 27 - Pictures of the Mind

First Aired: April. 14,1979

Episode 26 - Their Lips are Sealed

First Aired: April. 15,1979

Episode 25 - The King and I

First Aired: April. 09,1979

Episode 24 - Tell Us the Truth

First Aired: April. 02,1979

Rock band Sham 69 have a large and loyal following of working-class kids, who call themselves 'The Sham Army'. They have a reputation for causing trouble and Sham concerts have often been disrupted and brought to an end by fighting.

Episode 23 - Cinema: Kung Fu, Run Run Shaw and Bruce Lee

First Aired: March. 28,1979

Episode 22 - 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On

First Aired: March. 26,1979

Episode 21 - La Dame aux Gladiolas

First Aired: March. 19,1979

Episode 20 - Cinema: Don Siegel

First Aired: March. 14,1979

Episode 19 - My Way

First Aired: March. 12,1979

Episode 18 - Ubu

First Aired: March. 05,1979

Episode 17 - Cinema: Isabelle Huppert

First Aired: February. 28,1979

Episode 16 - Other Writers Will Tell You Different....

First Aired: February. 26,1979

Episode 15 - Cinema: John Barry

First Aired: February. 14,1979

Episode 14 - Cinema: Piaf

First Aired: February. 12,1979

Episode 13 - Maler's Requiem

First Aired: February. 05,1979

Episode 12 - Cinema: John Carpenter and star Donald Pleasence on Location in Los Angeles plus Blue

First Aired: January. 31,1979

Episode 11 - Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes

First Aired: January. 29,1979

Episode 10 - Who Is Poly Styrene?

First Aired: January. 20,1979

Episode 9 - Cinema

First Aired: January. 15,1979

Episode 8 - On Photography

First Aired: January. 15,1979

Episode 7 - The Museum of Drawers

First Aired: January. 08,1979

Episode 6 - Cinema: Robert Altman

First Aired: December. 20,1978

Episode 5 - Cinema: A report from Bombay

First Aired: December. 06,1978

Episode 4 - Cinema: The Thirty-nine Steps and this year's London Film Festival

First Aired: November. 22,1978

Episode 3 - Cinema: Hooray for Hollywood?

First Aired: October. 25,1978

Episode 2 - Cinema: Vanessa Redgrave

First Aired: October. 18,1978

Episode 1 - Cinema: Francois Truffaut

First Aired: October. 11,1978

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