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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Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1975 | Episode 1 | Theatre: Lilian Baylis & the Old Vic/David Hockney & the Rake's Progress | 1975-10-01 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 2 | Art and Design: How They Sold the 70s/Space Studios | 1975-10-08 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 3 | Theatre: Howard Barker/Kenneth Tynan/Birds of Paradise | 1975-10-15 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 4 | Art and Design: New Yorker/Serpentine Gallery/Jarrow | 1975-10-22 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 5 | Theatre: National Theatre | 1975-10-29 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 6 | Art and Design: Painting the End of the World/Landscape Photography/Sci-Fi Illustrations | 1975-11-05 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 7 | Theatre: News Round-up | 1975-11-12 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 8 | Art and Design: Shirley Conran/Barry Lategan/Edward Burne-Jones | 1975-11-19 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 9 | Theatre: News Round-up | 1975-11-26 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 10 | Art and Design: Landscape into Art/Charles Tomlinson | 1975-12-03 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 11 | Theatre: Mikhail Baryshnikov/Albert Finney | 1975-12-10 | 30 min |
Season 1975 | Episode 12 | Art and Design: Forgotten Heritage | 1975-12-17 | 30 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 1 | Theatre: News Round-up | 1976-01-07 | 30 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 2 | Art and Design: News Round-up | 1976-01-14 | 35 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 3 | Theatre: News Round-up | 1976-01-21 | 35 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 4 | Art and Design: Paul Strand | 1976-01-28 | 35 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 5 | Theatre: Just Between Ourselves | 1976-02-04 | 35 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 6 | Art and Design: Keith Grant | 1976-02-11 | 35 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 7 | Theatre: What is Great Acting? | 1976-02-18 | 35 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 8 | Art and Design: Sculpture | 1976-02-25 | 35 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 9 | Theatre: Paris | 1976-03-03 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 10 | Art and Design: Video Artists | 1976-03-10 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 11 | Theatre: Goodbye to a Building? | 1976-03-17 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 12 | Art and Design: The New Realism Painting | 1976-03-24 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 13 | Theatre: Happy Birthday, Royal Court Theatre | 1976-03-31 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 14 | Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake? | 1976-04-07 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 15 | Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1 | 1976-08-25 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 16 | Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2 | 1976-09-01 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 17 | Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3 | 1976-09-08 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 18 | Theatre: Manchester Royal Exchange | 1976-09-15 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 19 | Cinema: Robert Altman | 1976-09-22 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 20 | Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer | 1976-09-29 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 21 | Cinema: Frank Westmore | 1976-10-06 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 22 | Theatre: Peter Shaffer | 1976-10-13 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 23 | Cinema: Eric Rohmer | 1976-10-20 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 24 | Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manham/The Swish of the Curtain | 1976-10-27 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 25 | Cinema: Don Siegel | 1976-11-03 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 26 | Theatre: The Cultural Common Market | 1976-11-10 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 27 | Cinema: British Cinema | 1976-11-17 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 28 | Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell | 1976-11-24 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 29 | Cinema: 'The Long Vacation of 36' | 1976-12-01 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 30 | Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle | 1976-12-08 | 90 min |
Season 1976 | Episode 31 | Cinema: Christmas Special | 1976-12-15 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 1 | Cinema: Mel Brooks | 1977-01-05 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 2 | Art and Design: Sam Smith: Genuine England/Arena Review | 1977-01-12 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 3 | Cinema: The Front | 1977-01-19 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 4 | Theatre: Spokesong/At Home with Mole | 1977-01-26 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 5 | Cinema: News | 1977-02-02 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 6 | Art and Design: Ralph Steadman | 1977-02-09 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 7 | Cinema: Network | 1977-02-16 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 8 | Theatre: The Cultural Common Market: Peter Stein and the Schaubuhne | 1977-02-23 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 9 | Cinema: Z | 1977-03-02 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 10 | Art and Design: What Is a Hologram?/Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon | 1977-03-09 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 11 | Cinema: A Star is Born | 1977-03-16 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 12 | Theatre: A Night Out | 1977-03-23 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 13 | Cinema: Ealing Studios | 1977-03-30 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 14 | Art and Design: Family Pieces/Both Sides of the Line/The Divine and the Fantastic | 1977-04-06 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 15 | Cinema: Bernardo Bertolucci | 1977-04-13 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 16 | Theatre: The Prospect Before Us | 1977-04-20 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 17 | Cinema: Bernardo Bertolucci Part 2 | 1977-04-27 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 18 | Art and Design: The Continuous Diary/Dine's Drawings | 1977-05-04 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 19 | Cinema: Erotic Films | 1977-05-11 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 20 | Cinema: Sophia Loren | 1977-05-25 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 21 | Edinburgh Festival | 1977-09-07 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 22 | Cinema: John Frankenheimer | 1977-09-14 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 23 | Cinema: New York, New York | 1977-09-21 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 24 | Art and Design: Achtung Minen! The work of Ian Hamilton Finlay | 1977-09-28 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 25 | Cinema: Annie Hall | 1977-10-05 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 26 | Theatre: Noel Coward in The Gorbals | 1977-10-12 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 27 | Cinema: Greece | 1977-10-19 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 28 | Art and Design: Richard Seifert | 1977-10-26 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 29 | Cinema: News Round-up | 1977-11-02 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 30 | Theatre: Hands Off the Classics | 1977-11-09 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 31 | Cinema: 21st London Film Festival | 1977-11-16 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 32 | Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag | 1977-11-23 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 33 | Cinema: 21st London Film Festival Part 2 | 1977-11-30 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 34 | Theatre: Leonard Rossiter | 1977-12-07 | 90 min |
Season 1977 | Episode 35 | Cinema: The Deep | 1977-12-14 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 1 | Cinema: The Force is with us? | 1978-01-11 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 2 | Art and Design: The Journey/Henry Moore Meets Leonardo | 1978-01-18 | 35 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 3 | Cinema: The Force is with us? Part 2 / Howard Hawks | 1978-01-25 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 4 | Theatre: The Cherry Orchard | 1978-02-01 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 5 | Cinema: Conrad on Screen | 1978-02-08 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 6 | Art and Design: Carrington/Robert Motherwell/Michael McKinnon | 1978-02-15 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 7 | Cinema: Claude Renoir | 1978-02-22 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 8 | Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ... | 1978-03-01 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 9 | Cinema: Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1978-03-08 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 10 | Art and Design: Carl Andre/Madame Stravinsky | 1978-03-15 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 11 | Cinema: Dancing Years/Roseland | 1978-03-22 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 12 | Theatre: Taking Our Time | 1978-03-29 | 50 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 13 | Art and Design: Way Out West | 1978-04-05 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 14 | Theatre: Children of the Gods | 1978-04-12 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 15 | Television: When Is a Play Not a Play? | 1978-04-17 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 16 | Art and Design: George Melly | 1978-05-03 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 17 | Theatre: John Byrne/Arnold Wesker | 1978-05-10 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 18 | Rock: Tubes on Tour | 1978-05-24 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 19 | Cinema: François Truffaut/Bill Douglas | 1978-10-11 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 20 | Theatre: Vanessa Redgrave | 1978-10-18 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 21 | Cinema: Hooray for Hollywood? | 1978-10-25 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 22 | Cinema: The Thirty-Nine Steps | 1978-11-22 | 90 min |
Season 1978 | Episode 23 | Cinema: A Report from Bombay | 1978-12-06 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 1 | The Museum of Drawers | 1979-01-08 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 2 | On Photography | 1979-01-15 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 3 | Cinema: News Round-up | 1979-01-17 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 4 | Who is Poly Styrene? | 1979-01-22 | 40 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 5 | Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes | 1979-01-29 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 6 | Cinema: John Carpenter and star Donald Pleasence | 1979-01-31 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 7 | Maler's Requiem | 1979-02-05 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 8 | Piaf/What Did You Do in ' The Warp ' Daddy? | 1979-02-12 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 9 | Cinema: John Barry | 1979-02-14 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 10 | Other Writers Will Tell You Different.... | 1979-02-26 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 11 | Cinema: Isabelle Huppert | 1979-02-28 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 12 | Arena Presents Ubu | 1979-03-05 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 13 | My Way | 1979-03-12 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 14 | Cinema: Don Siegel | 1979-03-14 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 15 | La Dame aux Gladiolas: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Edna Everage | 1979-03-19 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 16 | 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On | 1979-03-26 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 17 | Cinema: Kung Fu, Run Run Shaw and Bruce Lee | 1979-03-28 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 18 | Tell Us the Truth | 1979-04-02 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 19 | The King and I | 1979-04-09 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 20 | Their Lips are Sealed | 1979-04-15 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 21 | Rock: The Tubes on Tour | 1979-05-21 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 22 | Pictures of the Mind | 1979-06-14 | 90 min |
Season 1979 | Episode 23 | Six Days in September | 1979-09-29 | 35 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 1 | Building for Change | 1980-01-16 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 2 | Lene Lovich - Sleeping Beauty | 1980-01-23 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 3 | Mentioned in Dispatches | 1980-01-30 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 4 | Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs Pupko's Beard | 1980-02-06 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 5 | Peggy Taub, the Learned Goat and Other People ... | 1980-02-13 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 6 | Bring Me Back a Song | 1980-02-27 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 7 | ' I talk about me - I am Africa' | 1980-03-03 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 8 | Rudies Come Back or The Rise and Rise of 2-Tone | 1980-03-12 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 9 | Working at It | 1980-03-19 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 10 | Left: Andrea Dunbar Right: Victoria Wood | 1980-03-26 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 11 | Climb Every Mountain or Nothing Succeeds Like Failure | 1980-04-02 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 12 | Arena presents Double Vision | 1980-04-09 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 13 | Dedicated Followers of Fashion | 1980-04-16 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 14 | Luck and Flaw | 1980-05-21 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 15 | In Their Own Image | 1980-05-28 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 16 | Making The Shining | 1980-10-04 | 90 min |
Season 1980 | Episode 17 | Dire Straits | 1980-12-22 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 1 | Chelsea Hotel | 1981-01-03 | 60 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 2 | Hazell Meets His Makers | 1981-01-10 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 3 | Getting Away from Sidney | 1981-01-17 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 4 | Private Worlds | 1981-01-24 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 5 | Today Carshalton Beeches... Tomorrow Croydon | 1981-01-31 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 6 | Edward Hopper | 1981-02-21 | 40 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 7 | Stages | 1981-02-28 | 50 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 8 | The Smallest Theatre... | 1981-03-07 | 30 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 9 | Huston's Hobby | 1981-03-14 | 40 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 10 | A Walk with Amos Oz | 1981-03-21 | 35 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 11 | God's Fifth Columinist | 1981-03-28 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 12 | Did You Miss Me? | 1981-04-04 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 13 | The Return of Lupino Lane | 1981-04-15 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 14 | The Comic Strip Hero | 1981-04-18 | 60 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 15 | Arena on Clair | 1981-05-02 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 16 | Somewhere Over the Rainbow... | 1981-05-09 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 17 | If the Music Had to Stop... | 1981-05-16 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 18 | Curtains? | 1981-08-16 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 19 | The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda | 1981-09-06 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 20 | "I Thought I Was Taller" - A Short History of Mel Brooks | 1981-10-02 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 21 | Have You Seen the Mona Lisa? | 1981-11-03 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 22 | Let Them Know We're Here | 1981-11-10 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 23 | A Pretty British Affair | 1981-11-17 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 24 | The Art of Radio Times and The Eye of the "Eye" | 1981-11-24 | 45 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 25 | A Tall Story - How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India | 1981-12-08 | 90 min |
Season 1981 | Episode 26 | Brixton to Barbados | 1981-12-15 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 1 | The Private Life of the Ford Cortina | 1982-01-19 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 2 | What Makes Rabbit Run? | 1982-01-28 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 3 | Here They Kill People for It | 1982-01-02 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 4 | Listen to Britain | 1982-02-09 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 5 | True to Life? | 1982-02-09 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 6 | Desert Island Discs | 1982-02-23 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 7 | Housing Problems | 1982-03-09 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 8 | The Orson Welles Story: Part One | 1982-05-18 | 110 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 9 | The Orson Welles Story: Part Two | 1982-05-21 | 55 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 10 | Mike Leigh Making Plays | 1982-09-04 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 11 | A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton | 1982-11-09 | 60 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 12 | A Play for Bridport | 1982-11-16 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 13 | Upon Westminster Bridge | 1982-11-23 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 14 | Eddie Cochran: Three Steps to Heaven | 1982-11-30 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 15 | Angus McBean | 1982-12-11 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 16 | Samuel Beckett Season: Happy Days | 1982-12-11 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 17 | Samuel Beckett Season: Eh Joe | 1982-12-13 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 18 | Samuel Beckett Season: Rockaby | 1982-12-14 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 19 | Samuel Beckett Season: Not I | 1982-12-15 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 20 | Samuel Beckett Season: Quad | 1982-12-16 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 21 | Samuel Beckett Season: Last Tape | 1982-12-17 | 90 min |
Season 1982 | Episode 22 | Guernica - The Long Exile | 1982-12-28 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 1 | Last Waltz In Vienna | 1983-01-11 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 2 | Classically Cuban: Alicia Alonso and the Cuban National Ballet | 1983-01-18 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 3 | Hair: By Their Hair Shall Ye Know Them... | 1983-02-01 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 4 | Boulez Now | 1983-02-08 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 5 | Jazz Juke Box I | 1983-02-15 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 6 | Burroughs | 1983-02-22 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 7 | The Catherine Wheel | 1983-03-01 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 8 | Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes | 1983-03-08 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 9 | It's All True | 1983-05-09 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 10 | The Life and Times of Don Luis Bunuel | 1983-08-19 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 11 | Borges and I | 1983-10-26 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 12 | Bette Davis - The Benevolent Volcano | 1983-11-02 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 13 | Anthony Powell - An Invitation to the Dance | 1983-11-09 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 14 | The Ghost Writer | 1983-11-12 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 15 | Jazz Juke-Box II | 1983-11-23 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 16 | The GPO Story | 1983-12-14 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 17 | The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert | 1983-12-23 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 18 | George Orwell: Part 1 - Such, Such Were the Joys | 1983-12-29 | 90 min |
Season 1983 | Episode 19 | George Orwell: Part 2 - Road to Wigan Pier | 1983-12-30 | 90 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 1 | George Orwell Part 3: Homage to Catalonia | 1984-01-02 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 2 | George Orwell Part 4: The Lion and the Unicorn | 1984-01-03 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 3 | George Orwell Part 5: Nineteen Eighty-four | 1984-01-04 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 4 | Say Amen Someone | 1984-02-04 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 5 | Dame Edna Everage - A Birthday Tribute | 1984-02-17 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 6 | Four Rooms | 1984-02-21 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 7 | The Theatre of Dario Fo | 1984-02-28 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 8 | Sunset People | 1984-03-03 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 9 | The Caravaggio Conspiracy | 1984-03-06 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 10 | Between Dreaming and Waking | 1984-03-13 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 11 | Ken Russell 's Elgar | 1984-03-20 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 12 | Jerry Lee Lewis: Live in Bristol 1984 | 1984-03-27 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 13 | True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist | 1984-04-03 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 14 | My Dinner with Louis | 1984-05-06 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 15 | Milan Kundera - Laughter and Forgetting | 1984-05-19 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 16 | A Tribute to Joseph Losey | 1984-07-07 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 17 | Beat This! A Hip Hop History | 1984-07-12 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 18 | The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience | 1984-11-02 | 95 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 19 | Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day | 1984-11-09 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 20 | Eubie Blake | 1984-11-10 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 21 | Francis Bacon | 1984-11-18 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 22 | We Don't Like Your House Either! | 1984-11-23 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 23 | Teacher Don't Teach Me: Nonsense - The Music of Fela Kuti | 1984-11-30 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 24 | After the Rehearsal | 1984-12-07 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 25 | What's Cuba Playing At? | 1984-12-21 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 26 | Music of the other Americas | 1984-12-22 | 60 min |
Season 1984 | Episode 27 | Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden | 1984-12-26 | 60 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 1 | Watch Me Move.... | 1985-04-29 | 90 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 2 | Hugh Masekela - The African Ambassador | 1985-05-06 | 90 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 3 | The Theatre of Robert Wilson | 1985-07-25 | 90 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 4 | Sonny Boy Williamson Sings | 1985-07-27 | 21 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 5 | B.B. King Speaks | 1985-07-27 | 38 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 6 | Chicago Blues | 1985-07-27 | 52 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 7 | Blind John Davis | 1985-07-28 | 20 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 8 | Blues Medley | 1985-07-28 | 26 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 9 | Big Bill Blues | 1985-07-28 | 23 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 10 | Robert Wilson on the Civil Warpath | 1985-08-01 | 90 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 11 | The Real Buddy Holly Story | 1985-09-12 | 65 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 12 | Saint Genet | 1985-11-12 | 90 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 13 | The Accordion Strikes Back | 1985-11-19 | 90 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 14 | The Cinema of Francesco Rosi | 1985-11-26 | 90 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 15 | The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima | 1985-12-03 | 90 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 16 | Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day | 1985-12-07 | 90 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 17 | The Apollo Story: Part 1 | 1985-12-10 | 90 min |
Season 1985 | Episode 18 | The Apollo Story: Part 2 | 1985-12-17 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 1 | Arena Presents Tosca's Kiss | 1986-01-08 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 2 | The New Babylon | 1986-01-11 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 3 | Tango Mio | 1986-01-18 | 95 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 4 | Cinderella | 1986-01-21 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 5 | The Journey Man | 1986-01-28 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 6 | Go-Go in Washington DC | 1986-02-04 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 7 | Marguerite Yourcenar | 1986-02-11 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 8 | Kurosawa | 1986-03-04 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 9 | Caribbean Nights - Bob Marley | 1986-06-15 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 10 | Caribbean Nights - C.L.R. James's First Cricket XI | 1986-06-16 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 11 | Caribbean Nights - Danzon | 1986-06-16 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 12 | Caribbean Nights - Rasta and the Ball | 1986-06-17 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 13 | Caribbean Nights - Arturo Sandoval | 1986-06-18 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 14 | Caribbean Nights - Kapo | 1986-06-19 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 15 | Henry Moore | 1986-09-07 | 50 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 16 | Jerry Lee Lewis | 1986-10-01 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 17 | Salvador Dali | 1986-11-21 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 18 | The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel | 1986-11-22 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 19 | The Spirit of Lorca Federico Garcia | 1986-11-28 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 20 | Scarfe on Scarfe | 1986-12-12 | 90 min |
Season 1986 | Episode 21 | Night Moves | 1986-12-19 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 1 | Stand by Your Dream (The Tammy Wynette Story) | 1987-01-16 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 2 | Night and Day | 1987-01-23 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 3 | Dennis Potter | 1987-01-30 | 60 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 4 | Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas | 1987-02-06 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 5 | Confessions of Robert Crumb | 1987-02-13 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 6 | Ruth, Roses and Revolver | 1987-02-20 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 7 | A Brother with Perfect Timing | 1987-02-27 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 8 | Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinema | 1987-03-13 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 9 | Putting Ourselves in the Picture | 1987-03-20 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 10 | How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? | 1987-03-27 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 11 | Bayan Ko Pilipinas | 1987-04-03 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 12 | Talk is Cheap | 1987-04-10 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 13 | Night Moves | 1987-04-11 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 14 | The Waugh Trilogy Part 1: Bright Young Thing | 1987-04-18 | 60 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 15 | The Waugh Trilogy Part 2: Mayfair and the Jungle | 1987-04-19 | 60 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 16 | The Waugh Trilogy Part 3: An Englishman's Home | 1987-04-20 | 60 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 17 | Joseph Beuys | 1987-06-06 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 18 | Revolutionary with a Paintbox | 1987-11-20 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 19 | Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell | 1987-11-27 | 90 min |
Season 1987 | Episode 20 | Invisible Ink | 1987-12-04 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 1 | Woody Guthrie | 1988-01-08 | 65 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 2 | The Dandy-Beano Story | 1988-01-15 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 3 | Broadway - The Great White Way | 1988-01-22 | 60 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 4 | Ryszard Kapuscinski: Your Man Who is There | 1988-01-29 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 5 | The Emperor | 1988-02-05 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 6 | My Name Is Celia Cruz | 1988-02-12 | 65 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 7 | An Andalucian Journey | 1988-03-04 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 8 | Robert Mapplethorpe | 1988-03-18 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 9 | The English Thoroughbred | 1988-03-25 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 10 | Byrne About Byrne | 1988-04-01 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 11 | Ten Green Bottles | 1988-11-25 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 12 | Clint Eastwood | 1988-12-02 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 13 | Moving Across the World on Horses | 1988-12-09 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 14 | History Boys on the Rampage | 1988-12-16 | 90 min |
Season 1988 | Episode 15 | The Unforgettable Nat King Cole | 1988-12-23 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 1 | Tales of Barcelona | 1989-01-06 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 2 | Blackpool | 1989-01-13 | 60 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 3 | The Tip of the Iceberg | 1989-01-27 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 4 | Laurens Van Der Post and Albert Sample | 1989-02-03 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 5 | New York - The Secret African City | 1989-02-10 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 6 | Eugene Ionesco: The Joke's on Us | 1989-02-17 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 7 | John Cassavetes | 1989-02-24 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 8 | Power in the Blood | 1989-03-03 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 9 | The Old Brass Plate Rattle Test - The Englishman and His Jukebox | 1989-03-17 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 10 | Juke Box Jury | 1989-03-19 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 11 | Lubetkin Thoughts of a Twentieth Century Anarchist | 1989-03-31 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 12 | Heavy Metal | 1989-04-07 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 13 | The Other Graham Greene | 1989-04-21 | 90 min |
Season 1989 | Episode 14 | 25 X 5 The Continuing Adventures of The Rolling Stones | 1989-12-27 | 90 min |
Season 1990 | Episode 1 | Numbers | 1990-01-19 | 90 min |
Season 1990 | Episode 2 | Jerry Lee Lewis | 1990-02-02 | 90 min |
Season 1990 | Episode 3 | Roberto Rossellini | 1990-02-09 | 90 min |
Season 1990 | Episode 4 | Next Time Dear God Please Choose Someone Else | 1990-02-23 | 90 min |
Season 1990 | Episode 5 | Salif Keita | 1990-03-02 | 90 min |
Season 1990 | Episode 6 | Paris Is Burning | 1990-04-06 | 70 min |
Season 1990 | Episode 7 | Jana Bokova's Havana | 1990-04-15 | 105 min |
Season 1990 | Episode 8 | Oooh er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story | 1990-06-01 | 60 min |
Season 1990 | Episode 9 | Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait | 1990-09-20 | 60 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 1 | Miller Meets Mandela | 1991-01-18 | 60 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 2 | Derek Jarman - A Portrait | 1991-01-25 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 3 | Anselm Kiefer: Operation Sealion | 1991-02-01 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 4 | The Very Strange Story of... The Legendary Joe Meek | 1991-02-08 | 60 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 5 | Mardi Gras | 1991-02-12 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 6 | Caroline 199 - A Pirate's Tale | 1991-03-01 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 7 | Staring at the Ceiling | 1991-03-08 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 8 | Three Irish Writers | 1991-03-15 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 9 | One Irish Rover | 1991-03-16 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 10 | The Importance of Being Oscar | 1991-03-17 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 11 | The Other Roci | 1991-03-22 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 12 | Lifepulse | 1991-03-29 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 13 | Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon | 1991-04-05 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 14 | Elmore Leonard's Criminal Records | 1991-04-12 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 15 | The Human Face | 1991-04-19 | 90 min |
Season 1991 | Episode 16 | The Complete Citizen Kane | 1991-10-13 | 90 min |
Season 1992 | Episode 1 | Billy, How Did You Do It? - Part 1 | 1992-01-23 | 60 min |
Season 1992 | Episode 2 | Billy, How Did You Do It? - Part 2 | 1992-01-24 | 60 min |
Season 1992 | Episode 3 | Billy, How Did You Do It? - Part 3 | 1992-01-25 | 60 min |
Season 1992 | Episode 4 | Masters of the Canvas | 1992-01-31 | 60 min |
Season 1992 | Episode 5 | Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up | 1992-03-27 | 90 min |
Season 1992 | Episode 6 | Linda McCartney - Behind the Lens | 1992-12-26 | 50 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 1 | A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie | 1993-01-29 | 90 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 2 | Edward Said: The Idea of Empire | 1993-02-12 | 60 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 3 | Philip Roth | 1993-03-19 | 60 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 4 | Tales of Rock 'n' Roll: Walk on the Wild Side | 1993-05-01 | 60 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 5 | The Time Signal | 1993-12-18 | 10 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 6 | Derek Walcott | 1993-02-26 | 90 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 7 | Zhang Yimou - A Story of China | 1993-03-12 | 90 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 9 | Only the Names Have Been Changed.... | 1993-03-26 | 90 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 10 | Weegee | 1993-04-02 | 90 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 11 | Duchamp's Fountain | 1993-04-02 | 90 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 12 | Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue | 1993-04-17 | 90 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 13 | Not a Bad Girl | 1993-04-18 | 90 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 14 | Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Heartbreak Hotel | 1993-04-24 | 90 min |
Season 1993 | Episode 16 | Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Highway 61 Revisited | 1993-05-08 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 1 | In Search of Oz | 1994-01-29 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 2 | Who Is Vladimir Pozner? | 1994-02-05 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 3 | The Dark Side of Black | 1994-02-12 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 4 | The Two Voyages of Donald Crowhurst | 1994-02-22 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 5 | Glitterbug - Derek Jarman | 1994-03-05 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 6 | Theatre without Actors | 1994-03-12 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 7 | Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife | 1994-04-09 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 8 | Voices from the Island | 1994-04-23 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 9 | Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here but Me | 1994-04-24 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 10 | Bahia of All the Saints | 1994-05-07 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 11 | Sandra Bernhard - Confession of a Pretty Lady | 1994-05-20 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 12 | The Ring - A South London Tale | 1994-05-31 | 90 min |
Season 1994 | Episode 13 | Louise Bourgeois | 1994-08-06 | 90 min |
Season 1995 | Episode 1 | The Peter Sellers Story Part 1 - From Southsea to Shepperton | 1995-02-11 | 90 min |
Season 1995 | Episode 2 | The Peter Sellers Story Part 2 - From Jack to Jacques | 1995-02-18 | 90 min |
Season 1995 | Episode 3 | The Peter Sellers Story Part 3 - I am Not a Funny Man | 1995-02-25 | 90 min |
Season 1995 | Episode 4 | Punk and the Pistols | 1995-08-20 | 90 min |
Season 1996 | Episode 1 | The Burger & the King: The Life & Cuisine of Elvis Presley | 1996-05-09 | 56 min |
Season 1996 | Episode 2 | Tony Bennett 's New York | 1996-12-22 | 90 min |
Season 1996 | Episode 3 | Caesar's Writers | 1996-12-24 | 90 min |
Season 1997 | Episode 1 | Cigars - Out of the Humidor | 1997-12-25 | 60 min |
Season 1997 | Episode 16 | There 's No Such Thing as a Small Head of State | 1997-01-02 | 90 min |
Season 1997 | Episode 17 | Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Underground | 1997-03-28 | 90 min |
Season 1997 | Episode 18 | Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Football is the Faith | 1997-03-29 | 90 min |
Season 1997 | Episode 19 | Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: The Price of Glory | 1997-03-30 | 90 min |
Season 1997 | Episode 20 | The Banana | 1997-12-24 | 90 min |
Season 1998 | Episode 1 | The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow | 1998-12-25 | 75 min |
Season 1998 | Episode 2 | The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow (Part 2) | 1998-12-26 | 75 min |
Season 1999 | Episode 1 | The 40-Year Face-off | 1999-01-02 | 90 min |
Season 1999 | Episode 2 | Salman Rushdie and the Ground beneath His Feet | 1999-04-22 | 90 min |
Season 1999 | Episode 3 | Looking for the Iron Curtain | 1999-11-07 | 90 min |
Season 1999 | Episode 4 | Casanova | 1999-12-20 | 90 min |
Season 1999 | Episode 5 | Blondes - Jayne Mansfield | 1999-12-24 | 90 min |
Season 1999 | Episode 6 | Blondes - Diana Dors | 1999-12-26 | 90 min |
Season 1999 | Episode 7 | Blondes - Anita Ekberg | 1999-12-27 | 90 min |
Season 2000 | Episode 1 | Wisconsin Death Trip | 2000-07-02 | 75 min |
Season 2000 | Episode 2 | The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money | 2000-01-02 | 90 min |
Season 2000 | Episode 3 | The Veil | 2000-05-20 | 90 min |
Season 2001 | Episode 1 | James Ellroy's Feast of Death | 2001-05-06 | 95 min |
Season 2001 | Episode 2 | And the Winner is... | 2001-05-13 | 90 min |
Season 2001 | Episode 3 | Budd Schulberg - a Contender | 2001-05-19 | 90 min |
Season 2001 | Episode 4 | The Source | 2001-05-28 | 90 min |
Season 2001 | Episode 5 | Salgado - the Spectre of Hope | 2001-05-30 | 90 min |
Season 2001 | Episode 6 | Stalin - the Red God | 2001-05-31 | 90 min |
Season 2001 | Episode 7 | According to Beryl | 2001-10-06 | 60 min |
Season 2001 | Episode 8 | Sykes and a Day | 2001-12-25 | 70 min |
Season 2001 | Episode 9 | The Private Dirk Bogarde | 2001-12-26 | 90 min |
Season 2001 | Episode 10 | Max Bygraves: I Wanna Tell You a Story | 2001-12-25 | 90 min |
Season 2002 | Episode 1 | Harold Pinter - Part One: The Room | 2002-10-26 | 57 min |
Season 2002 | Episode 2 | Harold Pinter - Part Two: Celebration | 2002-10-26 | 57 min |
Season 2002 | Episode 3 | One for the Road | 2002-10-26 | 30 min |
Season 2002 | Episode 4 | The Room | 2002-11-05 | 50 min |
Season 2002 | Episode 5 | Radio Ha! Meet Dead Ringers | 2002-12-26 | 60 min |
Season 2002 | Episode 6 | Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute | 2002-12-26 | 60 min |
Season 2003 | Episode 1 | Dylan Thomas - From Grave to Cradle | 2003-11-22 | 60 min |
Season 2003 | Episode 2 | Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made | 2003-12-19 | 75 min |
Season 2003 | Episode 3 | Alec Guinness: A Secret Man | 2003-12-29 | 90 min |
Season 2003 | Episode 5 | Imagine Imagine | 2003-09-20 | 90 min |
Season 2003 | Episode 6 | The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough - Part 1 | 2003-08-24 | 90 min |
Season 2003 | Episode 7 | The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough - Part 2 | 2003-08-25 | 90 min |
Season 2004 | Episode 1 | Pavarotti: The Last Tenor | 2004-05-29 | 90 min |
Season 2004 | Episode 2 | Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus | 2004-07-09 | 85 min |
Season 2004 | Episode 3 | Shadowing the Third Man | 2004-10-02 | 60 min |
Season 2004 | Episode 4 | Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? | 2004-12-09 | 85 min |
Season 2004 | Episode 5 | Painting the Clouds: A Portrait of Dennis Potter | 2004-12-25 | 90 min |
Season 2005 | Episode 1 | Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues | 2005-02-05 | 78 min |
Season 2005 | Episode 2 | Calling Hedy Lamarr | 2005-02-12 | 90 min |
Season 2005 | Episode 3 | Francis Bacon's Arena | 2005-03-19 | 95 min |
Season 2005 | Episode 4 | Arena at 30 | 2005-09-03 | 60 min |
Season 2005 | Episode 5 | No Direction Home - Bob Dylan Part 1 | 2005-09-26 | 90 min |
Season 2005 | Episode 6 | No Direction Home - Bob Dylan Part 2 | 2005-09-27 | 90 min |
Season 2005 | Episode 7 | The Princess and Panorama | 2005-11-08 | 90 min |
Season 2005 | Episode 8 | Routemasters! The Double Decker Bus Conductors | 2005-12-10 | 60 min |
Season 2005 | Episode 9 | Lunch with Galton and Simpson | 2005-12-25 | 90 min |
Season 2006 | Episode 1 | Chi-Chi the Panda | 2006-09-11 | 90 min |
Season 2006 | Episode 2 | Pete Doherty | 2006-11-12 | 90 min |
Season 2006 | Episode 3 | Saints | 2006-12-17 | 85 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 1 | The Underground | 2007-03-18 | 90 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 2 | Bob Marley Exodus '77 | 2007-06-03 | 60 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 3 | Encountering Bergman | 2007-07-13 | 40 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 4 | Bergman and Faro Island: Arena | 2007-07-13 | 60 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 5 | Bergman and the Cinema: Arena | 2007-07-14 | 60 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 6 | Art and Design: The Journey | 2007-07-25 | 60 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 7 | Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema | 2007-09-02 | 60 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 8 | The Comic Strip Hero | 2007-09-30 | 90 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 9 | Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute | 2007-10-01 | 90 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 10 | The Archers | 2007-10-04 | 60 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 11 | Into the Limelight - Tribute Bands | 2007-10-06 | 60 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 12 | Tribute Bands - Live | 2007-10-06 | 60 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 13 | Dylan's Folk - the Pure, the Bad and the Holy | 2007-10-14 | 40 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 14 | The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival | 2007-10-14 | 80 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 15 | Ken Dodd's Happiness | 2007-12-24 | 58 min |
Season 2007 | Episode 16 | Shadowing the Third Man | 2007-12-31 | 90 min |
Season 2008 | Episode 1 | The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul | 2008-04-10 | 60 min |
Season 2008 | Episode 2 | Cab Driver | 2008-07-26 | 60 min |
Season 2008 | Episode 3 | The Hunt for Moby Dick | 2008-09-20 | 75 min |
Season 2008 | Episode 4 | The Whale in the Museum | 2008-09-21 | 20 min |
Season 2008 | Episode 5 | The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector | 2008-10-25 | 60 min |
Season 2008 | Episode 6 | Paul Scofield | 2008-12-24 | 60 min |
Season 2009 | Episode 1 | Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends | 2009-02-14 | 60 min |
Season 2009 | Episode 2 | Cool | 2009-04-03 | 60 min |
Season 2009 | Episode 3 | T.S. Eliot | 2009-06-06 | 90 min |
Season 2010 | Episode 1 | Brian Eno - Another Green World | 2010-01-22 | 60 min |
Season 2010 | Episode 2 | Harold Pinter - A Celebration | 2010-01-24 | 95 min |
Season 2010 | Episode 3 | Frank Sinatra - The Voice of the Century | 2010-04-02 | 95 min |
Season 2010 | Episode 4 | Johnny Mercer - The Dream's on Me | 2010-04-04 | 100 min |
Season 2010 | Episode 5 | Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way | 2010-12-03 | 90 min |
Season 2010 | Episode 6 | Rolf Harris Paints His Dream | 2010-12-29 | 90 min |
Season 2011 | Episode 1 | Produced by George Martin | 2011-04-25 | 90 min |
Season 2011 | Episode 2 | George Harrison: Living in the Material World - Part 1 | 2011-11-12 | 90 min |
Season 2011 | Episode 3 | George Harrison: Living in the Material World - Part 2 | 2011-11-13 | 90 min |
Season 2012 | Episode 1 | Dickens on Film | 2012-01-10 | 60 min |
Season 2012 | Episode 2 | Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes | 2012-02-17 | 60 min |
Season 2012 | Episode 3 | Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued! | 2012-02-17 | 60 min |
Season 2012 | Episode 4 | The Dreams of William Golding | 2012-03-17 | 90 min |
Season 2012 | Episode 5 | Jonathan Miller | 2012-03-31 | 90 min |
Season 2012 | Episode 6 | Amy Winehouse - The Day She Came to Dingle | 2012-07-23 | 65 min |
Season 2012 | Episode 7 | The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour - 1. Magical Mystery Tour Revisited | 2012-10-06 | 90 min |
Season 2012 | Episode 8 | The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour - 2. 'The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour | 2012-10-06 | 90 min |
Season 2012 | Episode 9 | Screen Goddesses | 2012-12-22 | 60 min |
Season 2012 | Episode 10 | Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel | 2012-12-25 | 60 min |
Season 2013 | Episode 1 | aka Norman Parkinson | 2013-04-21 | 60 min |
Season 2013 | Episode 2 | The National Theatre Part One: The Dream | 2013-10-24 | 90 min |
Season 2013 | Episode 3 | The National Theatre Part Two: War and Peace | 2013-10-31 | 90 min |
Season 2014 | Episode 1 | Whatever Happened to Spitting Image? | 2014-03-20 | 60 min |
Season 2014 | Episode 2 | The National Theatre - Learning Zone | 2014-04-02 | 30 min |
Season 2014 | Episode 3 | The 50 Year Argument - The New York Review of Books | 2014-06-29 | 90 min |
Season 2015 | Episode 1 | Nicolas Roeg - It's About Time | 2015-06-28 | 65 min |
Season 2015 | Episode 2 | Night and Day | 2015-11-22 | 90 min |
Season 2016 | Episode 1 | Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl | 2016-03-18 | 88 min |
Season 2016 | Episode 2 | All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film | 2016-04-24 | 60 min |
Season 2016 | Episode 3 | 1966 - 50 Years Ago Today | 2016-07-24 | 60 min |
Season 2016 | Episode 4 | The Roundhouse - The People's Palace | 2016-10-23 | 60 min |
Season 2017 | Episode 1 | Alone with Chrissie Hynde | 2017-02-10 | 60 min |
Season 2017 | Episode 2 | American Epic Part 1: The Big Bang | 2017-05-21 | 60 min |
Season 2017 | Episode 3 | American Epic Part 2: Blood and Soil | 2017-05-28 | 60 min |
Season 2017 | Episode 4 | Kirsty Young: 75 Years of Desert Island Discs | 2017-05-29 | 5 min |
Season 2017 | Episode 5 | American Epic Part 3: Out of the Many, the One | 2017-06-04 | 60 min |
Season 2017 | Episode 6 | American Epic Part 4: The Sessions | 2017-06-09 | 120 min |
Season 2018 | Episode 1 | Stanley and His Daughters | 2018-02-04 | 75 min |
Season 2018 | Episode 2 | Bob Dylan - Trouble No More | 2018-03-30 | 60 min |
Season 2018 | Episode 3 | Nothing Like a Dame | 2018-06-02 | 90 min |
Season 2018 | Episode 4 | Make Me Up! | 2018-11-04 | 69 min |
Season 2019 | Episode 1 | Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything | 2019-04-06 | 85 min |
Season 2019 | Episode 2 | That Summer | 2019-07-07 | 76 min |
Season 2019 | Episode 3 | Cindy Sherman #untitled | 2019-07-28 | 59 min |
Season 2019 | Episode 4 | Kusama: Infinity | 2019-09-01 | 69 min |
Season 2019 | Episode 5 | Bergman: A Year in the Life | 2019-09-22 | 115 min |
Season 2019 | Episode 7 | A British Guide to the End of the World | 2019-11-04 | 74 min |
Season 2019 | Episode 8 | Everything Is Connected - George Eliot's Life | 2019-11-10 | 60 min |
Season 2019 | Episode 9 | Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens | 2019-12-30 | 90 min |
Season 2020 | Episode 1 | Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall | 2020-03-07 | 90 min |
Season 2020 | Episode 2 | The Changin' Times of Ike White | 2020-05-18 | 80 min |
Season 2020 | Episode 3 | I Am Not Your Negro | 2020-06-20 | 90 min |
Season 2020 | Episode 4 | Keith Haring: Street Art Boy | 2020-07-04 | 90 min |
Season 2020 | Episode 5 | Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat | 2020-11-21 | 90 min |
Season 2021 | Episode 1 | My Father and Me | 2021-03-21 | 60 min |
Season 2021 | Episode 2 | Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes | 2021-05-16 | 90 min |
Season 2021 | Episode 3 | African Apocalypse | 2021-05-22 | 90 min |
Season 2021 | Episode 4 | Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture | 2021-05-29 | 90 min |
Season 2021 | Episode 5 | Dylan Thomas: From Grave to Cradle | 2021-10-10 | 60 min |
Season 2021 | Episode 6 | Painted with My Hair | 2021-10-31 | 60 min |
Season 2021 | Episode 7 | B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From? | 2021-11-21 | 70 min |
Season 2021 | Episode 8 | The Vasulka Effect | 2021-11-28 | 60 min |
Season 2022 | Episode 1 | The Most Beautiful Boy in the World | 2022-02-13 | 90 min |
Season 2022 | Episode 2 | River | 2022-07-25 | 70 min |
Season 2022 | Episode 3 | James Joyce's Ulysses | 2022-09-07 | 90 min |
Season 2022 | Episode 4 | TS Eliot: Into the Waste Land | 2022-10-22 | 80 min |
Season 2022 | Episode 5 | Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters | 2022-11-27 | 75 min |
Season 2023 | Episode 1 | Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll | 2023-04-22 | 90 min |
Season 2023 | Episode 2 | The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld | 2023-04-26 | 90 min |
Season 2023 | Episode 3 | The Stones and Brian Jones | 2023-05-15 | 90 min |
Season 2023 | Episode 4 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | 2023-06-04 | 90 min |
Season 2023 | Episode 5 | Coco Chanel Unbuttoned | 2023-09-15 | 90 min |
Season 2023 | Episode 6 | Being Kae Tempest | 2023-11-29 | 60 min |