Arena Season 5 Episodes

Episode 1

Six Days in September

35 mins

A profile of the celebrated English abstract painter, John Hoyland.

Episode 2

Building for a Change

Episode 3

Lene Lovich: Sleeping Beauty

A journey to Berlin with rock musician Lene Lovich and Les Chappell.

Episode 4

Mentioned in Dispatches

50 mins

The story of TIM PAGE, war photographer.

Episode 5

Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs Pupko's Beard

Episode 6

Peggy Taub, the Learned Goat and Other People ...

Episode 7

Bring Me Back a Song

Episode 8

' I talk about me - I am Africa'

Episode 9

Rudies Come Back or The Rise and Rise of 2-Tone

35 mins

Episode 10

Working At It

Episode 11

Profiles of Victoria Wood and Andrea Dunbar

32 mins

Arena looks at writer and performer Victoria Wood in rehearsal for her play 'Good Fun'. Also profiled is teenage playwright Andrea Dunbar, whose first play, 'The Arbor', written when she was only 15, was running at the Royal Court. Included are rehearsals for the play.

Episode 12

Climb Every Mountain or Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

Stephen Pile, author of "The Book of Heroic Failures" and David McGillivray, who failed to complete a book about failure, talk to other failures. Larry Hagman also talks to Stephen Pile about success.

Episode 13

Double Vision

Episode 14

Dedicated Followers of Fashion

Episode 15

Luck and Flaw

Episode 16

In Their Own Image