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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