Arena - Season 1 Episode 677 : Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters
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.
First Air Date : Oct 01, 1975
Last Air Date : Apr 22, 2023
Runtime : 90 min.
Genre : Documentary
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- Eps. 1 : Theatre1975-10-01
- Eps. 2 : Art and Design1975-10-08
- Eps. 3 : Theatre1975-10-15
- Eps. 4 : Art and Design1975-10-22
- Eps. 5 : Theatre1975-10-29
- Eps. 6 : Art and Design1975-11-05
- Eps. 7 : Theatre1975-11-12
- Eps. 8 : Art and Design1975-11-19
- Eps. 9 : Theatre1975-11-26
- Eps. 10 : Art and Design1975-12-03
- Eps. 11 : Theatre1975-12-10
- Eps. 12 : Art and Design1975-12-17
- Eps. 13 : Theatre1976-01-07
- Eps. 14 : Art and Design1976-01-14
- Eps. 15 : Theatre1976-01-21
- Eps. 16 : Art and Design1976-01-28
- Eps. 17 : Theatre1976-02-04
- Eps. 18 : Art and Design1976-02-11
- Eps. 19 : Theatre1976-02-18
- Eps. 20 : Art and Design1976-02-25
- Eps. 21 : Theatre1976-03-03
- Eps. 22 : Art and Design1976-03-10
- Eps. 23 : Theatre1976-03-17
- Eps. 24 : Art and Design1976-03-24
- Eps. 30 : Theatre: A Dream Come True1976-09-15
- Eps. 31 : Robert Altman1976-09-22
- Eps. 33 : Frank Westmore1976-10-06
- Eps. 34 : Theatre1976-10-13
- Eps. 35 : Cinema: Eric Rohmer1976-10-20
- Eps. 37 : Cinema: Don Siegel1976-11-03
- Eps. 39 : Cinema1976-11-17
- Eps. 41 : Cinema1976-12-01
- Eps. 42 : Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle1976-12-08
- Eps. 43 : Cinema: Christmas Special1976-12-15
- Eps. 44 : Cinema1977-01-05
- Eps. 46 : Cinema1977-01-19
- Eps. 48 : Cinema1977-02-02
- Eps. 50 : Cinema1977-02-16
- Eps. 52 : Cinema1977-03-02
- Eps. 54 : Cinema1977-03-16
- Eps. 55 : Theatre: A Night Out1977-03-23
- Eps. 56 : Cinema1977-03-30
- Eps. 58 : Cinema1977-04-13
- Eps. 60 : Cinema1977-04-27
- Eps. 62 : Cinema1977-05-11
- Eps. 63 : Cinema1977-05-25
- Eps. 64 : Cinema1977-06-08
- Eps. 66 : Edinburgh Festival1977-09-07
- Eps. 67 : Cinema1977-09-14
- Eps. 68 : Cinema1977-09-21
- Eps. 69 : Art and Design1977-09-28
- Eps. 70 : Cinema1977-10-05
- Eps. 71 : Theatre1977-10-12
- Eps. 72 : Cinema: Greece1977-10-19
- Eps. 74 : Cinema1977-11-02
- Eps. 79 : Theatre: Leonard Rossiter1977-12-07
- Eps. 80 : Cinema: The Deep1977-12-14
- Eps. 81 : Cinema: The Force is with us?1978-01-11
- Eps. 85 : Cinema: Joseph Conrad1978-02-08
- Eps. 86 : Art and Design: Carrington1978-02-15
- Eps. 87 : Cinema: Claude Renoir1978-02-22
- Eps. 90 : Art and Design: Carl Andre1978-03-15
- Eps. 91 : Cinema: Dancing Years1978-03-22
- Eps. 92 : Theatre: Taking Our Time1978-03-29
- Eps. 93 : Art and Design: Way Out West1978-04-05
- Eps. 94 : Theatre: Children of the Gods1978-04-12
- Eps. 96 : Art and Design: George Melly1978-05-03
- Eps. 97 : Theatre: Arnold Wesker1978-05-10
- Eps. 98 : Rock: Tubes on Tour1978-05-24
- Eps. 99 : Episode 991978-10-11
- Eps. 100 : Vanessa Redgrave1978-10-18
- Eps. 101 : Arena: Cinema1978-10-25
- Eps. 102 : Arena: Cinema1978-11-22
- Eps. 103 : Arena: Cinema1978-12-06
- Eps. 104 : Arena: The Museum of Drawers1979-01-08
- Eps. 105 : On Photography1979-01-15
- Eps. 106 : Arena: Cinema1979-01-17
- Eps. 107 : Arena: Cinema1979-01-21
- Eps. 108 : Who is Poly Styrene?1979-01-22
- Eps. 110 : Arena: Cinema1979-01-31
- Eps. 113 : Arena: Cinema1979-02-14
- Eps. 115 : Arena: Cinema1979-02-28
- Eps. 116 : Ubu1979-03-05
- Eps. 117 : My Way1979-03-12
- Eps. 118 : Arena: Cinema1979-03-14
- Eps. 119 : La Dame aux Gladiolas1979-03-19
- Eps. 121 : Arena: Cinema1979-03-28
- Eps. 122 : Tell Us the Truth1979-04-02
- Eps. 124 : Their Lips are Sealed1979-04-15
- Eps. 125 : Steel Pulse1979-05-21
- Eps. 126 : Ring Around the Moon1979-06-11
- Eps. 127 : Pictures of the Mind1979-06-14
- Eps. 128 : Six Days in September1979-09-29
- Eps. 129 : Building for Change1979-01-16
- Eps. 131 : Lene Lovich Sleeping Beauty1980-01-23
- Eps. 132 : Mentioned in Dispatches1980-01-30
- Eps. 135 : Bring Me Back a Song1980-02-27
- Eps. 138 : Working At It1980-03-19
- Eps. 141 : Double Vision1980-04-09
- Eps. 143 : Luck and Flaw1980-05-21
- Eps. 145 : Making 'The Shining'1980-10-04
- Eps. 146 : Dire Straits1980-12-22
- Eps. 147 : Chelsea Hotel1981-01-03
- Eps. 148 : Hazell Meets His Makers1981-01-10
- Eps. 149 : Getting Away from Sidney1981-01-17
- Eps. 150 : Private Worlds1981-01-24
- Eps. 152 : Edward Hopper1970-01-01
- Eps. 153 : Stages1981-02-28
- Eps. 154 : The Smallest Theatre1981-03-07
- Eps. 155 : Huston's Hobby1981-03-14
- Eps. 156 : A Walk with Amos Oz1981-03-21
- Eps. 157 : God's Fifth Columnist1981-03-28
- Eps. 158 : Did You Miss Me ...?1981-04-04
- Eps. 159 : The Return of Lupino Lane1981-04-15
- Eps. 160 : The Comic Strip Hero1981-04-18
- Eps. 161 : Arena on Clair1981-05-02
- Eps. 162 : Somewhere Over the Rainbow1981-05-09
- Eps. 163 : If the Music Had to Stop1981-05-16
- Eps. 165 : The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda1981-09-06
- Eps. 168 : Let Them Know We're Here1981-11-10
- Eps. 169 : A Pretty British Affair1981-11-17
- Eps. 172 : Brixton to Barbados1981-12-15
- Eps. 174 : What Makes Rabbit Run?1982-01-26
- Eps. 175 : Here They Kill People for It1982-02-02
- Eps. 176 : True to Life?1982-02-09
- Eps. 177 : Desert Island Discs1982-02-23
- Eps. 181 : Mike Leigh Making Plays1982-09-04
- Eps. 182 : A Genius Like Us1982-11-09
- Eps. 183 : A Play for Bridport1982-11-16
- Eps. 184 : Upon Westminster Bridge1982-11-23
- Eps. 185 : Three Steps to Heaven1982-11-30
- Eps. 186 : Angus McBean1982-12-08
- Eps. 191 : Quad (Samuel Beckett Season)1982-12-16
- Eps. 193 : Guernica: The Long Exile1982-12-28
- Eps. 195 : Hair1983-02-01
- Eps. 196 : Boulez Now1983-02-08
- Eps. 197 : Jazz Juke Box1983-02-15
- Eps. 198 : Burroughs1983-02-22
- Eps. 199 : The Catherine Wheel1983-03-01
- Eps. 200 : Kurt Vonnegut1983-03-08
- Eps. 201 : It's All True1983-05-09
- Eps. 202 : Luis Bunuel1983-08-19
- Eps. 205 : The Ghost Writer1983-11-12
- Eps. 206 : Jazz Juke-Box II1983-11-23
- Eps. 207 : Roman Vishniac1983-11-30
- Eps. 209 : The GPO Story1983-12-14
- Eps. 216 : Say Amen Someone1984-02-04
- Eps. 217 : Four Rooms1984-02-21
- Eps. 218 : The Theatre of Dario Fo1984-02-28
- Eps. 219 : Sunset People1984-03-03
- Eps. 220 : The Caravaggio Conspiracy1984-03-06
- Eps. 221 : Between Dreaming and Waking1984-03-13
- Eps. 222 : Ken Russell 's Elgar1984-03-20
- Eps. 223 : Jerry Lee Lewis1984-03-27
- Eps. 225 : My Dinner with Louis1984-05-06
- Eps. 227 : A Tribute to Joseph Losey1984-07-07
- Eps. 228 : Beat This! A Hip Hop History1984-07-12
- Eps. 231 : Eubie Blake1984-11-10
- Eps. 232 : Francis Bacon1984-11-16
- Eps. 235 : After the Rehearsal1984-12-07
- Eps. 236 : What's Cuba Playing At?1984-12-21
- Eps. 237 : Music of the other Americas1984-12-22
- Eps. 239 : My Son the Novelist1985-02-18
- Eps. 241 : Marcel Carne1985-02-27
- Eps. 243 : How Glorious is the Garden?1985-03-18
- Eps. 244 : Old Kent Road1985-03-25
- Eps. 245 : Ligmalion1985-04-08
- Eps. 247 : Marc Chagall1985-04-22
- Eps. 248 : Watch Me Move...1985-04-29
- Eps. 250 : The Theatre of Robert Wilson1985-07-25
- Eps. 251 : Blues Night: Introduction1985-07-27
- Eps. 254 : Blues Night: Chicago Blues1985-07-27
- Eps. 256 : Blues Night: Blues Medley1985-07-28
- Eps. 257 : Blues Night: Big Bill Blues1985-07-28
- Eps. 258 : Buddy Holly1985-09-12
- Eps. 259 : Saint Genet1985-11-12
- Eps. 260 : The Accordion Strikes Back1985-11-19
- Eps. 261 : The Cinema of Francesco Rosi1985-11-26
- Eps. 263 : The Apollo Story: part 11985-12-10
- Eps. 264 : The Apollo Story: part 21985-12-17
- Eps. 265 : Tosca's Kiss1986-01-08
- Eps. 266 : The New Babylon1986-01-11
- Eps. 267 : Tango Mio1986-01-18
- Eps. 268 : Cinderella1986-01-21
- Eps. 269 : The Journey Man1986-01-28
- Eps. 270 : Go-Go in Washington DC1986-02-04
- Eps. 271 : Marguerite Yourcenar1986-02-11
- Eps. 272 : Louise Brooks1986-02-18
- Eps. 273 : Kurosawa1986-03-04
- Eps. 274 : Two Painters Amazed1986-03-11
- Eps. 275 : Home Front1986-03-25
- Eps. 277 : Caribbean Nights: Medley1986-06-14
- Eps. 278 : Caribbean Nights: Poetry1986-06-14
- Eps. 279 : Caribbean Nights: Ska1986-06-14
- Eps. 286 : Caribbean Nights Bob Marley1986-06-15
- Eps. 288 : Caribbean Nights: Danzon1986-06-16
- Eps. 291 : Caribbean Nights: Kapo1986-06-19
- Eps. 292 : Henry Moore1986-09-07
- Eps. 293 : Salvador Dali1986-11-21
- Eps. 295 : The Spirit of Lorca1986-11-28
- Eps. 296 : Cambodian Witness1986-12-05
- Eps. 297 : Scarfe on Scarfe1986-12-12
- Eps. 298 : Night Moves1986-12-19
- Eps. 299 : Dylan1987-01-02
- Eps. 301 : Night and Day1987-01-23
- Eps. 302 : Dennis Potter1987-01-30
- Eps. 305 : Ruth, Roses and Revolver1987-02-20
- Eps. 307 : Tarkovsky's Cinema1987-03-13
- Eps. 310 : Bayan Ko Pilipinas1987-04-03
- Eps. 311 : Talk is Cheap1987-04-10
- Eps. 318 : Invisible Ink1987-12-04
- Eps. 319 : Of Cats and Mice1987-12-18
- Eps. 320 : Woody Guthrie1988-01-08
- Eps. 321 : The Dandy-Beano Story1988-01-15
- Eps. 324 : The Emperor1988-02-05
- Eps. 325 : My Name Is Celia Cruz1988-02-12
- Eps. 328 : Kerouac1988-02-26
- Eps. 331 : Robert Mapplethorpe1988-03-18
- Eps. 332 : The English Thoroughbred1988-03-25
- Eps. 333 : Byrne About Byrne1988-04-01
- Eps. 335 : Ten Green Bottles1988-11-25
- Eps. 338 : History Boys on the Rampage1988-12-16
- Eps. 340 : Tales from Barcelona1989-01-06
- Eps. 341 : Blackpool1989-01-13
- Eps. 342 : The Tip of the Iceberg1989-01-27
- Eps. 346 : John Cassavetes1989-02-24
- Eps. 347 : Power in the Blood1989-03-03
- Eps. 349 : Juke Box Jury1989-03-19
- Eps. 350 : Berthold Lubetkin1989-03-31
- Eps. 351 : Heavy Metal1989-04-07
- Eps. 352 : The Other Graham Greene1989-04-21
- Eps. 356 : Animal Night: Smashing Pigs1989-12-16
- Eps. 364 : Numbers1990-01-19
- Eps. 365 : Oblomov1990-01-26
- Eps. 366 : Jerry Lee Lewis1990-02-02
- Eps. 367 : Roberto Rossellini1990-02-09
- Eps. 369 : Salif Keita1990-03-02
- Eps. 372 : Peggy and Her Playwrights1990-03-23
- Eps. 373 : The English Rose1990-03-30
- Eps. 374 : Paris Is Burning1990-04-06
- Eps. 376 : Havana1990-04-15
- Eps. 377 : The Princess1990-04-20
- Eps. 379 : Le Paris Black1990-05-11
- Eps. 380 : Kino Perestroika1990-05-18
- Eps. 381 : The Daily Worker Story1990-05-25
- Eps. 384 : The Fever1990-09-29
- Eps. 385 : Food Night: Introduction1990-12-15
- Eps. 386 : Food Night: Modern Food1990-12-15
- Eps. 389 : Food Night: Good Manners1990-12-15
- Eps. 390 : Food Night: What's Kosher?1990-12-15
- Eps. 391 : Food Night: The Last Supper1990-12-15
- Eps. 395 : Food Night: Eating for One1990-12-15
- Eps. 397 : Food Night: Debate1990-12-15
- Eps. 399 : Miller Meets Mandela1991-01-18
- Eps. 400 : Derek Jarman - a Portrait1991-01-25
- Eps. 403 : The Other Roci1991-02-22
- Eps. 405 : Staring at the Ceiling1991-03-08
- Eps. 406 : Three Irish Writers1991-03-15
- Eps. 407 : One Irish Rover1991-03-16
- Eps. 409 : The Other1991-03-22
- Eps. 412 : The Human Face1991-04-19
- Eps. 413 : Texas Saturday Night1991-04-24
- Eps. 414 : The Grass Arena1992-01-19
- Eps. 415 : Billy, How Did You Do It? 11992-01-23
- Eps. 416 : Billy, How Did You Do It? 21992-01-24
- Eps. 417 : Billy, How Did You Do It? 31992-01-25
- Eps. 418 : Masters of the Canvas1992-01-31
- Eps. 419 : Oliver Stone1992-02-07
- Eps. 420 : Fatwa1992-02-14
- Eps. 423 : Croatia - the Artists' War1992-03-06
- Eps. 425 : Chi-Chi the Panda1992-03-20
- Eps. 427 : Last Supper - Frank on Frank1992-04-03
- Eps. 437 : On the Road with Boggs1993-01-15
- Eps. 438 : The Grateful and the Dead1993-01-22
- Eps. 439 : A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie1993-01-29
- Eps. 440 : Larry Kramer1993-01-05
- Eps. 442 : The Last Soviet Citizen1993-02-19
- Eps. 443 : Derek Walcott1993-02-20
- Eps. 444 : Zhang Yimou1993-03-12
- Eps. 445 : Philip Roth1993-03-19
- Eps. 447 : Weegee1993-04-02
- Eps. 448 : Duchamp's Fountain1993-04-02
- Eps. 451 : Not a Bad Girl1993-04-18
- Eps. 452 : Heartbreak Hotel1993-04-24
- Eps. 453 : Walk on the Wild Side1993-05-01
- Eps. 454 : Highway 61 Revisited1993-05-08
- Eps. 462 : Radio Night: Sunday Dinner1993-12-18
- Eps. 464 : Radio Night: Pirates1993-12-31
- Eps. 468 : Radio Night: The Spot FX Man1993-12-18
- Eps. 470 : Radio Night: It's Life, Jim1993-12-18
- Eps. 471 : Radio Night: The Time Signal1993-12-18
- Eps. 474 : The Next Voice You Hear1993-12-19
- Eps. 475 : In Search of Oz1994-01-29
- Eps. 476 : Who Is Vladimir Pozner?1994-02-05
- Eps. 477 : The Dark Side of Black1994-02-12
- Eps. 479 : Glitterbug1994-03-05
- Eps. 480 : Theatre without Actors1994-03-12
- Eps. 481 : Kalashnikov1994-03-19
- Eps. 483 : Relics Introduction1994-03-31
- Eps. 484 : Relics: Einstein's Brain1994-04-01
- Eps. 488 : Voices from the Island1994-04-23
- Eps. 490 : Bahia of all the Saints1994-05-07
- Eps. 492 : Louise Bourgeois1994-08-06
- Eps. 493 : The Peter Sellers Story 11995-02-11
- Eps. 496 : Punk and the Pistols1995-08-20
- Eps. 497 : The Burger and the King1996-01-01
- Eps. 498 : Stories My Country Told Me1996-07-14
- Eps. 499 : Tony Bennett's New York1996-12-22
- Eps. 500 : Caesar's Writers1996-12-24
- Eps. 502 : Dear Antonioni1997-01-18
- Eps. 506 : The Banana1997-12-24
- Eps. 507 : Cigars - out of the Humidor1997-12-25
- Eps. 523 : Looking for the Iron Curtain1999-11-07
- Eps. 524 : Casanova1999-12-20
- Eps. 525 : Blondes - Jayne Mansfield1999-12-24
- Eps. 526 : Blondes - Diana Dors1999-12-26
- Eps. 527 : Blondes - Anita Ekberg1999-12-27
- Eps. 529 : The Veil2000-05-20
- Eps. 530 : Wisconsin Death Trip2000-07-02
- Eps. 534 : And the Winner Is ...2001-05-13
- Eps. 535 : Budd Schulberg - a Contender2001-05-19
- Eps. 536 : The Source2001-05-28
- Eps. 538 : Stalin - the Red God2001-05-31
- Eps. 539 : According to Beryl2001-10-06
- Eps. 546 : Estonia Dreams of Eurovision2002-05-18
- Eps. 547 : Kurosawa: Part One2002-06-15
- Eps. 548 : Kurosawa: Part Two2002-06-22
- Eps. 550 : Harold Pinter: 1: The Room2002-10-26
- Eps. 552 : One for the Road2002-10-26
- Eps. 553 : Politics and Pinter2002-10-30
- Eps. 554 : The Room2002-11-05
- Eps. 557 : I Am from Nowhere2003-01-14
- Eps. 558 : The Real Jane Austen2003-06-12
- Eps. 561 : Imagine Imagine2003-09-20
- Eps. 564 : Alec Guinness, a Secret Man2003-12-29
- Eps. 565 : Pavarotti - the Last Tenor2004-05-29
- Eps. 567 : Shadowing the Third Man2004-10-02
- Eps. 571 : Potter on Television2005-01-09
- Eps. 573 : Calling Hedy Lamarr2005-02-12
- Eps. 574 : Francis Bacon's Arena2005-03-19
- Eps. 575 : Arena at 302005-09-03
- Eps. 578 : Dylan in the Madhouse2005-09-28
- Eps. 579 : The Princess and Panorama2005-11-08
- Eps. 581 : Galton and Simpson2005-12-25
- Eps. 582 : Pete Doherty2006-11-12
- Eps. 583 : Saints2006-12-17
- Eps. 584 : The Archers2007-01-01
- Eps. 585 : The Underground2007-03-18
- Eps. 586 : Bob Marley - Exodus 772007-06-03
- Eps. 587 : Encountering Bergman2007-07-13
- Eps. 588 : Bergman and Faro Island2007-07-13
- Eps. 589 : Bergman and the Cinema2007-07-14
- Eps. 591 : The Original Archers2007-10-04
- Eps. 596 : Dylan in the Madhouse2007-10-14
- Eps. 597 : Ken Dodd's Happiness2007-12-24
- Eps. 599 : Cab Driver2008-07-26
- Eps. 600 : The Hunt for Moby-Dick2008-09-20
- Eps. 606 : Paul Scofield2008-12-24
- Eps. 608 : Cool2009-04-03
- Eps. 609 : TS Eliot2009-06-06
- Eps. 615 : Rolf Harris Paints His Dream2010-12-29
- Eps. 616 : Produced by George Martin2011-04-25
- Eps. 619 : Dickens on Film2012-01-10
- Eps. 621 : Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued!2012-02-17
- Eps. 623 : Jonathan Miller2012-03-31
- Eps. 627 : Screen Goddesses2012-12-22
- Eps. 629 : aka Norman Parkinson2013-04-21
- Eps. 636 : Night and Day2015-11-22
- Eps. 639 : 1966 - 50 Years Ago Today2016-07-24
- Eps. 641 : Alone with Chrissie Hynde2017-02-10
- Eps. 647 : Stanley and his Daughters2018-02-04
- Eps. 648 : Bob Dylan – Trouble No More2018-03-30
- Eps. 649 : Nothing Like a Dame2018-06-02
- Eps. 650 : Make Me Up!2018-11-04
- Eps. 652 : That Summer2019-07-07
- Eps. 653 : Cindy Sherman #untitled2019-07-28
- Eps. 654 : Kusama: Infinity2019-09-01
- Eps. 656 : Bergman: A Year in the Life2019-09-22
- Eps. 657 : The $50 Million Art Swindle2019-09-23
- Eps. 663 : I Am Not Your Negro2020-06-20
- Eps. 664 : Keith Haring: Street Art Boy2020-07-04
- Eps. 666 : My Father and Me2021-03-21
- Eps. 668 : African Apocalypse2021-05-22
- Eps. 670 : Painted with My Hair2021-10-31
- Eps. 672 : The Vasulka Effect2021-11-28
- Eps. 674 : River2022-07-25
- Eps. 675 : James Joyce’s Ulysses2022-09-07
- Eps. 679 : The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld2023-04-26
- Eps. 680 : The Stones and Brian Jones2023-05-15
- Eps. 682 : Coco Chanel Unbuttoned2023-09-15
- Eps. 683 : Being Kae Tempest2023-11-29
- Eps. 686 : Maria Callas: The Final Act2024-12-29
- Eps. 687 : Alan Bennett 90 Years On2024-12-13