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Arena Season 1981 (1981)

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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.Arena is not currently available to stream, rent, or buy but you can track it for updates. It's a documentary show with 550 episodes over 47 seasons. Arena is still airing with no announced date for the next episode or season. It has a high IMDb audience rating of 7.8 (286 votes).

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Nov 24, 1981 - Dec 8, 1981

Season 1981 of Arena has 26 episodes that are not available to stream or rent on any services. Track the series to get notified when an episode becomes available on your services.

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Season 1981, Episode 30 A Tall Story - How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India
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S1981 E25A Tall Story - How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India

Dec 8, 1981

Documentary which features the view of Booker prize-winning author Salman Rushdie of India through the eyes of his hero from...

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Season 1981, Episode 30 Brixton To Barbados
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S1981 E26 Brixton To Barbados

Dec 15, 1981

Documentary in which Jamaican-born poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, now resident in Brixton, visits Carifesta, a festival of West Indian culture...

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Season 1981, Episode 20 A Pretty British Affair
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S1981 E23 A Pretty British Affair

Nov 17, 1981

Documentary on British film-makers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger who talk about their career in partnership which produced some now-acknowledged...

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About Arena Season 1981

Arena 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.

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Number of episodes: 550 Episodes

Extra Information

Related Genres: Documentary
Original Release Date: Oct 1, 1975
Show Status: Currently Running
Next episode release: TBA