Arena - Season 1987

1. Art Spiegelman: Of Cats and Mice

Following the publication of his book 'Maus', a comic strip depicting cats and mice in the story of a young Jewish couple arrested and transported to Auschwitz, its creator comic-strip artist, Art Spiegelmann and his family, travel to Auschwitz for the first time.

2. Night and Day

Aired: 1/23/1987

A 24 hour journey through the streets of London as seen by two writers. Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard explores the daylight hours, with thriler writer Celia Fremlin walking the hours of darkness.

3. Dennis Potter

Aired: 1/30/1987

Alan Yentob interviews TV dramatist Dennis Potter about his work through the years, touching on subjects such as why and how he started writing, his sense of being different as a child, the insularity of his past in Forest of Dean, starting at the BBC in 1959 and a failed attempt at going into politics.

4. Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas

Aired: 2/6/1987

Story of photographer Martin Chambi, a Peruvian Indian whose photographs of the Inca ruins and Peruvian society brought him to the forefront of revolutionary artistic and social movements in South America in the 1930's.

6. Ruth, Roses and Revolver

Aired: 2/20/1987

Director David Lynch presents a guide to the work of the Surrealists.

7. A Brother With Perfect Timing

Aired: 2/27/1987

Documentary on jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim, a South African who moved to Amer ica in 1965. His music uses a blend of jazz and the traditional styles of South Africa.

8. Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinema

Aired: 3/13/1987

Beyond the edges of the frame influential filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky give the viewers a sense of time passing, time lost, and the relationship of one moment in time to another.

9. Confessions of Robert Crumb

10. How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?

Aired: 3/27/1987

Maria Von Trapp, Bob Guccione, Martin Scorsese, Mary O'Hara, Tony Monopoly and o thers talk about their training to become Roman Catholic monks, priests or nuns, and also discuss the similarity between the church and the world of arts and entertainment.

12. Talk Is Cheap

Aired: 4/10/1987

13. Night Moves

Aired: 4/11/1987

Documentary on the personalities and machines of the trucking industry in Great Britain.

14. The Waugh Trilogy Part 1: Bright Young Thing

Aired: 4/18/1987

Three part pfofile of writer Evelyn Waugh. Covers the period of his early life with comments from Sir Harold Acton, Lady Diana Mosley, Anthony Powell, Peter Quennell and Graham Greene.

15. The Waugh Trilogy Part 2: Mayfair And The Jungle

Aired: 4/19/1987

The most productive years of Waugh's writings. With comments from John Mortimer, Kingsley Amis, and Graham Greene.

16. The Waugh Trilogy Part 3: An Englishman's Home

Aired: 4/20/1987

17. Joseph Beuys

Aired: 6/6/1987

Documentary tracing the career of controversial German artist Joseph Beuys, from World War II up to his death in 1986.

18. Revolutionary With A Paintbox

Aired: 11/20/1987

A profile of Diego Rivera. The portrait compiles testimony from Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, ex-model and lover Bolores Olmedo and painter Jose Luis Cuevas. There is archive footage of Zapata, Trotsky and Rivera himself.

19. Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell

Aired: 11/27/1987

A courtroom 'drama' featuring Bob Guccione versus Ken Russell in a breach of con tract case regarding disagreements over a script for a film version of Daniel De foe's "Moll Flanders" which Guccione hired Russell to direct.

20. Invisible Ink

Aired: 12/4/1987

Documentary on the writings of Indians who travelled to Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries and wrote about their experiences.