Arena Season 42 Episodes

Episode 1

Loretta Lynn - Still a Mountain Girl

88 mins

Episode 2

All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film

60 mins

An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh and more.

Episode 3

1966 - 50 Years Ago Today

Episode 4

The Roundhouse - The People's Palace

On October 15th 1966, the Roundhouse hosted its first gig - the launch of radical newspaper International Times. The audience included Paul McCartney and Marianne Faithfull, along with 3,000 others trying desperately to get in. The result was a glorious shambles. Since then, virtually every big name in rock and alternative theatre has played there. Today it's as vibrant as ever, continuing to attract big names and full houses and running an array of Outreach and Youth programmes enabling young people to express themselves in the arts. Arena tells the tragicomic roller coaster story of a unique venue.