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Arena

Arena

1975Returning Series1 Season687 Episodes6.9TMDB
BBC FourBBC Two

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 533

James Ellroy's Feast of Death

May 6, 2001

The art strand Arena returns with a new seven-part series. Best known for such novels as LA Confidential, The Black Dahlia, and the autobiographical work My Dark Places, crime writer James Ellroy has recently moved beyond his genre to create a fictional version of America's last 50 years. The Cold Six Thousand, the newly-published second volume in his "underworld America" trilogy, looks at the years between the assassination of President Kennedy and that of his brother Robert Kennedy. Following Ellroy to Las Vegas and Dallas - the twin locations of the trilogy - and observing him at home in Kansas and with members of the LAPD, this documentary gives viewers the chance to see the world through Ellroy's eyes.

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Arena Season 1 Episode 533 aired on May 6, 2001.

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