Arena - Season 19 / Year 1993
Season 19 / Year 1993
Episodes
A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie
Edward Said: The Idea of Empire
Edward Said, a Palestinan writer, academic and exile, talks about his book "Culture and Imperialism" and explains how the attitudes forged over the last 200 years continue to enforce the relationship between the west and the developing world.
Philip Roth
To mark his 60th birthday, and the publication of his book "Operation Shylock", author Philip Roth breaks his long silence to discuss his life and his books - not to mention some of the links between the two.
Tales of Rock 'n' Roll: Walk on the Wild Side
The story behind Lou Reed's classic song celebrating transvestism - Walk on the Wild Side - a description of the world inhabited by Andy Warhol's superstars.
The Time Signal
Looking at radio and it's history, Dr Carl Dolmetsch finds out why the pips changed pitch.
The Last Soviet Citizen
Documentary that follows three decades of Soviet space culture, from the glory days of Yuri Gagarin to the saga of Sergei Krikalev, the Soviet citizen who was stranded in space for ten months as the Soviet Union was dismantled.
Derek Walcott
Zhang Yimou - A Story of China
Only the Names Have Been Changed....
Weegee
Duchamp's Fountain
Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue
Not a Bad Girl
Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Heartbreak Hotel
Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Highway 61 Revisited
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