Arena - Season 28 / Year 2002
Season 28 / Year 2002
Episodes
Harold Pinter - Part One: The Room
Film biography looking at the famous playwright. Pinter's key theme, the room, is explored through the rooms in which he wrote his first series of plays.
Harold Pinter - Part Two: Celebration
Film biography which explores the relationship between the public and private dimensions of the playwright and actor, following him at work over two years.
One for the Road
A stage play by Harold Pinter in which Pinter himself gives a powerful performance in the central role. Nicolas, who works as a torturer in an unnamed police state, interrogates three members of the same family.
The Room
An anxious recluse deals with the pressures of the outside world. A play by Harold Pinter, filmed in New York's Almeida Theatre in 2001
Radio Ha! Meet Dead Ringers
Behind the scenes of Radio 4 comedy shows. Dead Ringers, which made the transition to TV, features spot-on impressions of everyone from George Bush to Anne Robinson. But have the team lost track of who they really are?
Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute
A look behind the scenes of Radio 4 comedy shows. Just a Minute has been running for 35 years with Nicholas Parsons as its host. Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Linda Smith and Ross Noble are among the guests attempting to talk on a subject for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
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