1989x1 - Blackpool

January 13, 1989

1989 documentary which takes a look at Europe's most successful holiday resort, famous for its Tower, illuminations, landladies and party political conferences. Includes interviews with Norman Tebbit, John Cole, Paul Theroux and Tony Benn.

1989x4 - Laurens Van Der Post And Albert Sample

February 3, 1989

Two films by award-winning director Georg Troller, made for West German televisi on's arts programme PERSONENBESCHREIBUNG, profiling Sir Laurens Van Der Post and his work in drawing attention to the plight of Africa's threatened tribes; and on the Texan criminal Albert Sample.

1989x5 - New York - The Secret African City

February 10, 1989

Report from New York, on the import of African gods, myths and rituals into the city by inhabitants of African descent.

1989x6 - Eugene Ionesco: The Joke's On Us

February 17, 1989

Assessment of the life and work of the dramatist Eugene Ionesco.

1989x8 - John Cassavetes

February 24, 1989

Tribute to actor and director John Cassavetes who died in February 1989. Friends, associates and fellow directors remember the man and his work.

1989x9 - The Old Brass Plate Rattle Test - The Englishman And His Jukebox

March 17, 1989

1989x10 - Juke Box Jury

March 19, 1989

Special edition of the programme to celebrate the centenary of the juke box.

1989x13 - The Other Graham Greene

April 21, 1989

For some 25 years Graham Greene has found himself the victim of a bizarre masquerade. A man calling himself Graham Greene has opened hotels, courted high society in the south of France and was entertained by tea planters in India convincd he was the real Graham Greene.

1989x14 - 25 X 5 The Continuing Adventures Of The Rolling Stones

December 27, 1989

An Arena Special looking at the career, development and success of the band over the past 25 years, and including clips from the Stones' own archives and from the hitherto unseen GREAT ROCK 'N' ROLL CIRCUS of 1969, made in answer to the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour". It traces in detail the high and low points of the group over the years and their present continuing success.