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2001
2001x1
James Ellroy's Feast of Death
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A programme exploring the work of crime writer James Ellroy, whose credits include 'LA Confidential', 'The Black Dahlia', and 'My Dark Places', the latter a harrowing memoir of his own .. show full overview
2001x2
And The Winner Is...
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There is seemingly no endeavour for which there is not an award, from Preacher of the Year to Street Sweeper of the Year. Arena asks what lies at the heart of our fascination with awards .. show full overview
2001x3
Budd Schulberg: A Contender
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Eighty-six-year-old novelist Budd Schulberg talks to old friend Hugh Mcllvanney about his life and his long and varied career - including his screenplay for the multiple Oscar-winning film 'On the Waterfront'.
2001x4
The Source
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Dramatises the story behind the leading artists who personified the Beat Generation, which saw its roots in the meeting of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in the .. show full overview
2001x5
Salgado: The Spectre of Hope
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During the past 30 years the photographic work of Brazilian-born Sebastião Salgado has helped to bring conditions of famine and poverty to international attention.
2001x6
Stalin: The Red God
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Joseph Stalin is seen outside his native land as one of history's most deplorable tyrants, but throughout the former Soviet states a cult of Stalin still exists. This film documents .. show full overview
2001x7
According to Beryl
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A one-off film in which author Beryl Bainbridge chronicles the extraordinary relationship during the 18th century between Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale, the wife of rich London brewer .. show full overview
2001x8
Night of Entertainers (1): Sykes and a Day
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Writer, performer and director, the late Eric Sykes was the renaissance man of British comedy. This episode of Arena opens the doors of the room that was his creative home for forty .. show full overview
2001x9
Night of Entertainers (2): Drake's Progress
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Charlie Drake is perhaps best known as the "little man" taking on the world in such films as 'The Cracksman' and television series like 'The Worker'. Drake himself had much to overcome: .. show full overview
2001x10
Night of Entertainers (3): The 1812 Overture in E Flat Major Opus 49
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The sketch, first shown in 1967, that took the Golden Rose at Montreux. Drake plays the conductor and all of the musicians in an orchestra.
2001x11
Night of Entertainers (4): Max Bygraves - I Wanna Tell You a Story
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Since a 1951 breakthrough appearance on the long-running radio series 'Educating Archie', Bygraves has proved a hit with the British public, whether he performs as an actor, a comedian .. show full overview
2001x12
The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 1
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In 1986, Dirk Bogarde burnt most of his personal papers at his home in southern France. However, 12 cans of home movies, shot mostly by Bogarde's long-term partner Anthony Forwood, .. show full overview
2001x13
The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 2
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The second of Arena's two-part film about Bogarde plots his progress to the forefront of European cinema in films such as Joseph Losey's 'The Servant' and Luchino Visconti's 'Death in .. show full overview

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