Arena - Season 27 / Year 2001
Season 27 / Year 2001
Episodes
James Ellroy's Feast of Death
A programme exploring the work of crime writer James Ellroy, whose credits include LA Confidential, The Black Dahlia and My Dark Places.
And the Winner is...
Budd Schulberg - a Contender
The Source
Salgado - the Spectre of Hope
Stalin - the Red God
According to Beryl
Dame Beryl Bainbridge takes an idiosyncratic tour of the last twenty years of writer and poet Samuel Johnson's turbulent life, focusing on his relationship with Hester Thrale.
Sykes and a Day
Writer, performer and director, the late Eric Sykes was the renaissance man of British comedy. This film opens the doors of the room that was his creative home for forty years.
The Private Dirk Bogarde
Max Bygraves: I Wanna Tell You a Story
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