Arena - Season 5 / Year 1979
Season 5 / Year 1979
Episodes
The Museum of Drawers
On Photography
Cinema: News Round-up
Who is Poly Styrene?
1979 film portrait of the late New Wave singer-songwriter, Poly Styrene.
Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes
Cinema: John Carpenter and star Donald Pleasence
Maler's Requiem
Piaf/What Did You Do in ' The Warp ' Daddy?
Cinema: John Barry
Other Writers Will Tell You Different....
Cinema: Isabelle Huppert
Arena Presents Ubu
My Way
An investigation of the appeal and power of the popular song My Way, which was written by Paul Anka and was recorded by many artists, including Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Elvis Presley and Sid Vicious. Contributors include Paul Anka, George Brown, Barry John and Dorothy Squires.
Cinema: Don Siegel
La Dame aux Gladiolas: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Edna Everage
'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On
Cinema: Kung Fu, Run Run Shaw and Bruce Lee
Tell Us the Truth
The King and I
Their Lips are Sealed
Rock: The Tubes on Tour
Pictures of the Mind
Six Days in September
As a major retrospective of his work opens in London, Hoyland faces hostile criticism, starts a new painting and explains why, in his bleaker moments, painting can seem little more than ' flicking away in a corner with a feather duster '.
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