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Arena Season 3

September. 07,1977

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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 3 Full Episode Guide

Episode 33 - Rock: Tubes on Tour

First Aired: May. 24,1978

Episode 32 - Theatre: Arnold Wesker

First Aired: May. 10,1978

Episode 31 - Art and Design: George Melly

First Aired: May. 03,1978

Episode 30 - Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?

First Aired: April. 17,1978

A tribute to the British filmmaker Alan Clarke (1935-1990).

Episode 29 - Theatre: Children of the Gods

First Aired: April. 12,1978

Episode 28 - Art and Design: Way Out West

First Aired: April. 05,1978

Episode 27 - Theatre: Taking Our Time

First Aired: March. 29,1978

Episode 26 - Cinema: Dancing Years

First Aired: March. 22,1978

Episode 25 - Art and Design: Carl Andre

First Aired: March. 15,1978

Episode 24 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind

First Aired: March. 08,1978

Episode 23 - Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...

First Aired: March. 01,1978

Episode 22 - Cinema: Claude Renoir

First Aired: February. 22,1978

Episode 21 - Art and Design: Carrington

First Aired: February. 15,1978

Episode 20 - Cinema: Joseph Conrad

First Aired: February. 08,1978

Episode 19 - Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard

First Aired: February. 01,1978

Episode 18 - Cinema: The Force is with us? - Part 2/Howard Hawks

First Aired: January. 25,1978

Episode 17 - Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist

First Aired: January. 18,1978

George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities; Henry Moore discusses Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings.

Episode 16 - Cinema: The Force is with us?

First Aired: January. 11,1978

Episode 15 - Cinema: The Deep

First Aired: December. 14,1977

Episode 14 - Theatre: Leonard Rossiter

First Aired: December. 07,1977

Episode 13 - Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 2

First Aired: November. 30,1977

Episode 12 - Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag

First Aired: November. 23,1977

Episode 11 - Cinema: 21st London Film Festival

First Aired: November. 16,1977

Episode 10 - Theatre: Hands Off the Classics

First Aired: November. 09,1977

In the 17th century Troilus and Cressida was censored and in the 18th century Tate gave King Lear a happy ending. The programme debates the line between interpretation and vandalism.

Episode 9 - Cinema

First Aired: November. 02,1977

Episode 8 - Art and Design: Richard Seifert

First Aired: October. 26,1977

Episode 7 - Cinema: Greece

First Aired: October. 19,1977

Episode 6 - Theatre

First Aired: October. 12,1977

Episode 5 - Cinema

First Aired: October. 05,1977

Diane Keaton and Woody Allen talk about the filming of 'Annie Hall' and their long friendship.

Episode 4 - Art and Design

First Aired: September. 28,1977

Episode 3 - Cinema

First Aired: September. 21,1977

Episode 2 - Cinema

First Aired: September. 14,1977

with Gavin Millar returns for a new season after a visit to Hollywood, which despite rumours of slump and panic is still the unquestioned capital of the cinema world. We talked to one of its ruling princes, John Franken heimer, director of The Manchurian Candidate and Grand Prix, about his career in the Dream Factory, and especially his latest suspense thriller Black Sunday.

Episode 1 - Edinburgh Festival

First Aired: September. 07,1977

Features the 1977 Edinburgh International Festival with a new production of Carmen, the experimental shows, Film Festival, Television Festival, and art galleries.