Arena Season 47 Episodes

Episode 1

My Father and Me

Nick Broomfield takes a distinctly personal look at his relationships with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer of vivid images of postwar England.

Episode 2

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes

Docudrama portrait of Delia Derbyshire, the electronic sound pioneer behind the Doctor Who theme tune, that explores the idea that this extraordinary composer herself lived outside of time and space.

Episode 3

African Apocalypse

89 mins

British-Nigerian poet and activist Femi Nylander travels to West Africa to discover the modern-day impact on its people of atrocities that took place over a century ago.

Episode 4

Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture

An exploration - from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Grace Jones - of how black artists use the sci-fi genre to examine black history and imagine new, alternative futures.

Episode 5

Dylan Thomas: From Grave to Cradle

An examination of the work and the legend of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

Episode 6

Painted with My Hair

How a US lifer survived long-term solitary confinement through a remarkable pen-pal friendship and the making of beautiful little paintings from M&M's.

Episode 7

B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From?

An investigation into the extraordinary life and work of B. Catling, an eye-popping insight into the late-flourishing career of a maverick artist, teacher and performer.

Episode 8

The Vasulka Effect

An Arena documentary about the life and work of video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka, which reveals the profound effect they had on the American avant-garde.