Release Date

01 Oct, 1975

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

297/2023

Synopsis

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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Season 1

01 Oct, 1975

Season 2

25 Aug, 1976

Season 3

07 Sep, 1977

1980

Series 23

Series 25

Series 38

Series 45

Season 1978

11 Oct, 1978

Season 1979

22 Jan, 1979

Season 1980

Season 1981

19 Mar, 1981

Season 1982

09 Nov, 1982

Season 1984

02 Nov, 1984

Season 1985

Season 1986

Season 1987

Season 1988

08 Jan, 1988

Season 1989

13 Jan, 1989

Season 1990

06 Apr, 1990

Season 1991

Season 1992

Season 1993

Season 1994

Season 1996

01 Jan, 1996

Season 2000

02 Jul, 2000

Season 2001

25 Dec, 2001

Season 2002

Season 2003

19 Dec, 2003

Season 2004

Season 2005

Season 2007

14 Oct, 2007

Season 2008

09 Apr, 2008

Season 2009

Season 2010

22 Jan, 2010

Season 2011

25 Apr, 2011

Season 2012

10 Jan, 2012

Season 2016

18 Mar, 2016

Season 2017

10 Feb, 2017

Season 2018

04 Feb, 2018

Season 2019

07 Jul, 2019

Season 2020

18 May, 2020

Season 2021

16 May, 2021

Season 2022

13 Feb, 2022

Season 2001

22 Apr, 2023

Actors