Arena (1975)

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2005
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Dennis Potter: It's In the Songs! It's In the Songs!
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How the playwright used popular songs as a powerful dramatic device and to express the depth of his characters in 'Pennies from Heaven' and 'The Singing Detective'.
2005x2
Potter on Television
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A portrait of the late playwright, featuring extracts from his work - read by Keith Barron - and interviews with Potter himself.
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Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
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From Elvis to Norah Jones, Hank Williams's songs have been recorded more often than those of any other country music writer. Dirt-poor and rail-thin, he blazed out of Alabama in the late .. show full overview
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Calling Hedy Lamarr
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Cited as being the most beautiful star in the Hollywood firmament during the 1930s and 40s, Hedy Lamarr's talents as an accomplished physicist who also engaged in perfecting radar .. show full overview
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Francis Bacon's Arena
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Haunting and ferocious, Francis Bacon's paintings made an indelible impression on art history. His life - as outrageous as his work - is recalled by Arena in the only documentary .. show full overview
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Bob Dylan (1): No Direction Home
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A story told in flashbacks, Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines the immediacy of Bob Dylan's controversial 1966 tour of the British Isles with his remarkable personal and musical .. show full overview
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Dylan's Legends
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Bob Dylan's songs are often inspired by the lives of real people. This film focuses on three - songwriter Woody Guthrie, boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter and comedian Lenny Bruce.
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Bob Dylan (2): No Direction Home
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Martin Scorsese delicately balances Dylan's internal world with signpost images from the external as he follows the newsworthy phenomenon of a 23-year-old star laden with expectations - .. show full overview
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Dylan in the Madhouse
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Surprisingly, Bob Dylan first came to the attention of the British public through his role in a 1963 BBC TV play, 'The Madhouse on Castle Street'. The tape was later wiped and has since .. show full overview
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The Princess and Panorama
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An incredible 22.8 million viewers were agog as Diana, Princess of Wales spoke candidly of her marriage into the royal family. Ten years on, the secrecy and tensions behind this seminal .. show full overview
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Little Platform, Big Stage: The Double Decker Bus Conductors
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Documentary celebrating one of London's great characters, the bus conductor. The film tells the stories of five extraordinary conductors from five decades of London's history, rich with period music and archive.
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Galton and Simpson
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'Hancock's Half-Hour' and 'Steptoe and Son' - two persuasive reasons for making Ray Galton and Alan Simpson pre-eminent among Britain's postwar comedy writers. In their first full-length .. show full overview

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