All Episodes of Arena

Season 1

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  Theatre

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1975

  Premiere. Ronald Eyre reviews what's going on in the theatre, Kenneth Tynan talks to Laurence Olivier about Lilian Baylis and The Old Vic, and a film about David Hockney's sets for The Rake's Progress.

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  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1975

  George Melly looks at how they sold the 70's and a report on the opening of the Space Studios.

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  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1975

  An interview with Howard Barker, author of 'Stripwell', and an extract from same; commentary by Kenneth Tynan; and an investigation of 'Birds of Paradise'.

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  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1975

  Cartoonist Mel Caiman on the New Yorker magazine and its artists, Richard Hamilton at the Serpentine Gallery, and a new documentary exhibition from Jarrow.

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  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1975

  Peter Hall talks about the history and new South Band location of the National Theater, where he is artistic director.

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  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1975

  Features Observer critic William Feaver on Painting the End of the World, Bill Brandt's selection of landscape photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the best of science fiction illustration.

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  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1975

  Extract from a contemporary play and Kenneth Tynan opines.

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  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1975

  Shirley Conran is the guest columnist; fashion photographer Barry Lategan is filmed working; and Victorian painter Edward Burne-Jones' London exhibition.

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  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1975

  Deborah Norton reviews British stage events, a play extract, and Kenneth Tynan opines about the theatre.

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  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1975

  Guest columnist Terry Measham; a look into the work of painter and poet Charles Tomlinson.

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  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1975

  Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova rehearse for a BBC New Year Gala Performance; Kenneth Tynan draws a portrait of Albert Finney.

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  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1975

  Filmmaker Roger Graef and journalist Simon Jenkins discuss the destruction of historical buildings, in light of a recent SAVE campaign report and the conclusion of the European Architectural Heritage Year.

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  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1976

  Deborah Norton returns with reports, interviews and extracts from what is liveliest and best in the British theatrical scene.

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  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1976

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  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1976

  Jonathan Miller introduces this week's look at what is most stimulating and enjoyable on the theatrical scene.

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  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1976

  A look at American photographer Paul Strand and recent trends in British photography.

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  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1976

  Arena goes to Scarborough for the British premiere of a new Alan Ayckbourn play "Just Between Ourselves".

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  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/11/1976

  Arena looks at aspects of community art and the work of painter Keith Grant, artist-in-residence at the New Charing Cross Hospital.

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  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1976

  Claire Bloom and Kenneth Tynan discuss extracts from Samuel Beckett's 'Happy Days', George Bernard Shaw's 'Too True to be Good', and Tennessee Williams' 'Sweet Bird of Youth'.

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  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1976

  Arena talks with Robert Janz and Dante Leonelli about incorporating time into sculpture.

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  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/3/1976

  Arena brings extracts from Paris' contemporary theatre season, including Frank Wedekind's 'Lulu' and Marguerite Duras' 'Days in the Tree', and an interview with Delphine Seyrig.

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  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/10/1976

  Arena presents the work of British and American video artists.

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  Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/17/1976

  Barbara Jefford, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Kenneth Tynan Billie Whitelaw and many of the people behind the scenes say goodbye to the Old Vic building.

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  Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/24/1976

  Liverpool poet and painter Adrian Henry visits 'The Face of Merseyside'; Boyd and Evans use photographs as the basis of their explorations of everyday life.

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  Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court

  Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/31/1976

  Alumni of the Royal Court celebrate its 20th anniversary.

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  Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?

  Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/7/1976

  Barrie Penrose investigates a multi-national art empire and the artists and methods that created it.

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