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Arena (UK)
TV Series (1975 - 2013)
Arena is a British television documentary series, which has run in occasional seasons on BBC Two, and latterly BBC Four, since 1975, debuting on Wednesday 1 October that year. It was conceived by the producer Alan Yentob, who also did on-camera presenting and interviewing work for the programme.
Series Info
Type:
Documentary
Premiered:
Oct. 01, 1975
Status:
N/A
Runtime:
N/A
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Series Fun Facts
- The main outdoor concert within this film is the 1988 Monsters of Rock festival, an, then, annual event in the British heavy metal calendar, headlined by Iron Maiden.
- The music playing at the beginning of Arena is the title track of Brian Eno's album "Another Green World". It is 90 seconds long.
- Werner Herzog once commented that "Arena is the oasis in the sea of insanity that is television".







