When did Arena Season 1 Episode 509 air?
Arena Season 1 Episode 509 aired on April 12, 1998.
Arena
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
Season 1 · Episode 509
The Noel Coward Trilogy: Captain Coward
Apr 12, 1998
The second of three programmes celebrating the life and career of Noel Coward focuses on the journey through the Far East which inspired his most famous song, Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Coward's own home movies - being shown on television for the first time - capture him on trains in Japan, rickshaws in Peking and elephants in Ceylon. During the war years, an inspired partnership with director David Lean produced the acclaimed film In Which We Serve, with Coward playing a role based on Louis Mountbatten. This was followed by Brief Encounter, the classic film co-written by Coward and based on his play Still Life. With contributions from John Mills, John Gielgud, Judy Campbell and Richard Attenborough.
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