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Arena had an episode air on Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 9:00pm. Series 2026, Episode 1 titled "Kim Novak's Vertigo" was broadcast on BBC Two.
An intimate portrait of a fiercely independent Hollywood star who left it all behind to live life on her own terms, revealing a haunting, resilient journey of art, identity and authenticity in the shadow of one of cinema's most iconic roles.
Programme Information
Channel: BBC Two
Status: Running
Genre(s): History
Runtime: 75 minutes
Rating: N/A/10
Official Site: Arena
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Episode Details
Series: 2026
Episode: 1
Episode Title: Kim Novak's Vertigo
Air Date: Thursday, July 16, 2026
Air Time: 9:00pm
Runtime: 75 minutes
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S1975E1: Theatre: Lilian Baylis & the Old Vic/David Hockney & the Rake's Progress
Aired: Wednesday, October 1, 1975
This week, the director Ronald Eyre looks selectively and critically at what's coming on, or doing well, and recommends his own personal ' best buy.'Kenneth Tynan talks to Laurence Olivier about Lilian Baylis, the eccentric founder of The Old Vic. Kenneth Tynan says: "The theatre is the cockpit of society: it is here that ideas are argued out, laughed at and worked over. It is our job in Arena: Theatre to make the theatre accessible and comprehensible to the largest possible audience. We hope to celebrate plays, players and playwrights as they are working now and we shall also pass judgement of our own. When a dictatorship takes over, the first cultural institution to be suppressed is the theatre."
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