Arena - Season 4 / Year 1978

Season 4 / Year 1978

Episodes

Cinema: The Force is with us?

Art and Design: The Journey/Henry Moore Meets Leonardo
Henry Moore confronts the anatomical drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci & talks about them in relation to his own life-long study of the human body. Also George Melly takes a day trip which includes a show of Dada & Surrealism at Hayward Gallery.

Cinema: The Force is with us? Part 2 / Howard Hawks

Theatre: The Cherry Orchard

Cinema: Conrad on Screen

Art and Design: Carrington/Robert Motherwell/Michael McKinnon

Cinema: Claude Renoir

Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...

Cinema: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Art and Design: Carl Andre/Madame Stravinsky

Cinema: Dancing Years/Roseland

Theatre: Taking Our Time
The making and performance of a play reflecting the conflict between hand-loom weavers of the North and the newly mechanised world of the Industrial Revolution.

Art and Design: Way Out West

Theatre: Children of the Gods

Television: When Is a Play Not a Play?

Art and Design: George Melly

Theatre: John Byrne/Arnold Wesker

Rock: Tubes on Tour

Cinema: François Truffaut/Bill Douglas

Theatre: Vanessa Redgrave

Cinema: Hooray for Hollywood?

Cinema: The Thirty-Nine Steps

Cinema: A Report from Bombay

Cinema: Robert Altman
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