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Arena

★ 7.7 380 votes 1975–present 52 seasons · 631 episodes Returning Series BBC Four
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Written by
Duke EriksonBernard MacMahonAllison McGourty
Written by
Duke EriksonBernard MacMahonAllison McGourty

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About

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.

All Seasons

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Season 5
7.33781h 7m
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Season 6
7.63K212h 43m
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Season 7
8.3239165h 5m
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Season 8
7.6229186h 50m
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Season 9
8.2678253h 47m
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Season 10
8.045286h 7m
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Season 11
7.7263244h 23m
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Season 12
7.3316213h 58m
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Season 13
7.636195h 42m
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Season 141988
7.5231950m
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Season 15
6.821233h 8m
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Season 16
6.7112192h 58m
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Season 17
7.652193h 3m
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Season 18
7.454213h 30m
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Season 19
6.8379193h 42m
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Season 20
8.48743h 25m
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Season 21
6.92642h 21m
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Season 22
8.56293h 32m
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Season 23
7.610162h 20m
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Season 24
7.51971h 10m
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Season 25
7.51852h 13m
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Season 26
7.9114125h 13m
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Season 27
7.22973h 29m
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Season 28
5.814897h 29m
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Season 29
7.38542h 44m
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Season 30
7.874153h 13m
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Season 31
6.7146
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Season 32
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Season 33
7.082135h 43m
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Season 34
9.4479
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Season 35
6.864
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Season 36
7.75064h 10m
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Season 37
7.729534h 48m
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Season 38
7.7195106h 49m
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Season 39
7.91731h
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Season 40
6.73332h 37m
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Season 41
7.63022h 30m
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Season 42
7.03342h 28m
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Season 43
8.36762h 57m
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Season 44
6.92741h 15m
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Season 45
7.767102h 55m
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Season 46
—051h 29m
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Season 47
—082h 59m
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Season 48
7.5651h 8m
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Season 49
7.513572h 58m
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Season 502024
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Season 51
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Season 52
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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Gavin Millar Self - Presenter, Self - Interviewer
Kenneth Tynan Self, Self - Interviewer
John Walters Self - Presenter, Self
Jonathan Miller Self, Self - Associate Director, 1973-1975
Paul McCartney Self
Peter Hall Self, Self - Director, National Theatre, 1973-1988
B.B. King Self - Guest
Philip Hoare Self
Nicholas Shakespeare Self - Narrator
Penelope Wilton Self - Narrator, Self, Various

Crew

Duke Erikson
Bernard MacMahon
Allison McGourty

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