Arena Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• According to Beryl
• Alec Guinness, A Secret Man

  The life and career of actor Sir Alec Guinness.

• And the Winner Is ...
• Beryl Bainbridge
• Budd Schulberg: A Contender
• Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made

  Dramatic reconstruction and archive footage re-create the life of the American Wild West showman.

• The Burger and the King
• Calling Hedy Lamarr

  1930s Hollywood movie star Hedy Lamarr was more than just a pretty face.

• Chelsea Hotel
• Dylan Thomas

  The work and the legend of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

• Eric Sykes
• Estonia Dreams of Eurovision
• Ford Cortina
• Francis Bacon's Arena

  British painter Francis Bacon's life was every bit as colourful and outrageous as his art.

• Graham Greene
• Graham Greene
• Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
• I Thought I Was Taller
• Imagine Imagine

  The impact of the John Lennon song 'Imagine' and its popularity across the globe.

• It's in the Songs, It's in the Songs
• James Ellroy's Feast of Death
• Kurosawa
• The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

  The early career of actor-director Richard Attenborough.

• The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
• Marcel Carne
• Masters of the Canvas
• My Dinner With Dizzy
• My Way
• The Other Graham Greene
• Painting the Clouds: A Portrait of Dennis Potter
• Pavarotti: The Last Tenor

  The legendary tenor's career comes toward a climax with his farewell performances of 'Tosca' at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

• Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife
• Politics and Pinter
• The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
• Radio Ha!: It's Time for Just a Minute
• Radio Ha!: Meet the Dead Ringers
• Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
• Saint Genet
• Salgado: The Spectre of Hope
• Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
• Shadowing the Third Man
• The Source
• Stalin: Red God
• They Shot Graham Greene - at the NFT

  Writer Graham Greene converses with Quentin Falk on stage for the Guardian Lecture at the National Film Theatre in 1984.