Basic Info

First Air: October 01, 1975

Rating: ⭐ 6.7/10 (7 votes)

Status: Returning Series

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 687

Last Episode

Name: Maria Callas: The Final Act

Season: 1, Episode: 686

Air Date: 2024-12-29

In this new film from Arena, a cast of musical experts and admirers uncover the truth about the Maria Callas myth and the gift of her extraordinary voice.

Arena

1975 1 seasons 687 episodes ⭐ 6.7/10 7 votes

Overview

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.