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Arena is a British television documentary series, produced and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programs of all time, it has been running since October 1, 1975, with over five hundred episodes made, directed by notable figures such as Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff, and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects include 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.
