Every season of Arena ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Arena!

Theatre

Art and Design

Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court

Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?

Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1

Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2

Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3

Theatre: A Dream Come True

Robert Altman

Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer

Frank Westmore

Cinema: Eric Rohmer

Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manha

Cinema: Don Siegel

Theatre: The Cultural Common Market

Cinema

Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell

Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle

Cinema: Christmas Special

Art and Design: Sam Smith: Genuine England/Arena Review

Theatre: Spokesong/At Home with Mole

Art and Design: Ralph Steadman

Theatre: The Cultural Common Market: Peter Stein and the Schaubuhne

Art and Design: What Is a Hologram?/Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon

Theatre: A Night Out

Art and Design: Family Pieces/Both Sides of the Line/The Divine and the Fantastic

Theatre: The Prospect Before Us

Art and Design: The Continuous Diary/Dine's Drawings

Theatre: Playwrights of the 70's

Edinburgh Festival

Cinema: Greece

Art and Design: Richard Seifert

Theatre: Hands Off the Classics

Cinema: 21st London Film Festival

Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag

Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 2

Theatre: Leonard Rossiter

Cinema: The Deep

Cinema: The Force is with us?

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

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

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

Cinema: Joseph Conrad

Art and Design: Carrington

Cinema: Claude Renoir

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

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Art and Design: Carl Andre

Cinema: Dancing Years

Theatre: Taking Our Time

Art and Design: Way Out West

Theatre: Children of the Gods

Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?

Art and Design: George Melly

Theatre: Arnold Wesker

Rock: Tubes on Tour

Episode 99

Vanessa Redgrave

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.

The Best Seasons of Arena

The Best Seasons of Arena

Season 1