Arena - Season 27 / Year 2001

Season 27 / Year 2001
Episodes

James Ellroy's Feast of Death
A programme exploring the work of crime writer James Ellroy, whose credits include LA Confidential, The Black Dahlia and My Dark Places.

And the Winner is...

Budd Schulberg - a Contender

The Source

Salgado - the Spectre of Hope

Stalin - the Red God

According to Beryl
Dame Beryl Bainbridge takes an idiosyncratic tour of the last twenty years of writer and poet Samuel Johnson's turbulent life, focusing on his relationship with Hester Thrale.

Sykes and a Day
Writer, performer and director, the late Eric Sykes was the renaissance man of British comedy. This film opens the doors of the room that was his creative home for forty years.

The Private Dirk Bogarde

Max Bygraves: I Wanna Tell You a Story
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