Arena (1975)
Season 1997
TV-PG
Wide-ranging arts program.
Where to Watch Season 1997
7 Episodes
- There's No Such Thing As A Small Head of StateE1
There's No Such Thing As A Small Head of StateOn 22 October 1995, for the first time, all the world's leaders gathered together in the United Nations in New York to have their photograph taken for the beginning of the UN's 50th anniversary celebration. Photographer Paul Skipworth's 15 minutes of supreme power is the subject of this film. - Dear AntonioniE2
Dear AntonioniA portrait of the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, who has directed such films as 'L'Avventura', 'La Notte', and 'Zabriskie Point'. His work is known for its studies of alienation, and its experiments with cinematic techniques. In his eighties, Antonioni has recently had a museum open in his honour in Ferrara, Italy - his birthplace. - Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Part 1 - UndergroundE3
Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Part 1 - UndergroundSports writer Hugh Mcllvanney presents the first of a trilogy about three great football managers: Matt Busby, Jock Stein, and Bill Shankly. Tonight's film takes a look at the early careers of these men, who were born within a few miles of each other in the coal mining district south of Glasgow, and who subsequently became folk heroes known and admired beyond the world of football. - Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Part 2 - Football is the FaithE4
Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Part 2 - Football is the FaithSports writer Hugh Mcllvanney presents the second in a trilogy of programmes about three great football managers: Matt Busby, Jock Stein, and Bill Shankly. Tonight's film focuses on 1945-60, the period when the three former miners were all to become managers. - Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Part 3 - The Price of GloryE5
Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Part 3 - The Price of GloryConcluding the three-part series presented by sports writer Hugh Mcllvanney about three great football managers: Matt Busby, Jock Stein, and Bill Shankly. This film charts the incredible success that these three men brought to their clubs during the sixties and seventies, and examines their later years. - The BananaE6
The BananaTonight's programme considers musa sapientum - the fruit of the wise. The Velvet Underground's John Cale tells the story behind Andy Warhol's famous LP cover, Auberon Waugh and John Walters recall their first encounters with the fruit after the war, and footballer Brendan Batson considers how they became a symbol of racism hurled from the terraces. - Cigars: Out of the Humidor
E7Cigars: Out of the HumidorAccording to Pierre Salinger, John F Kennedy's former press secretary, before the president signed the embargo banning the importation of cigars into America from Cuba in 1962 he ordered 1,200 of them from Havana. Tonight's programme follows the story of the cigar - from the tobacco fields west of the Cuban capital of Havana into the factories where poetry and daily newspapers are read aloud to workers; to Hollywood cigar bars and the gentlemen's haunts of St James's, London. With contributions from actors James Belushi, George Wendt and Peter Weller, plus Lord Grade and politician Kenneth Clarke.