Arena

- Season 16

(1990)

The first bio-film of the world's most read author and the creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. With dramatic reconstructions and contemporary archive, it unravels a life as mysterious as Agatha Christie's and the shared obsession with murder.

Traces the history of the patata from the food staple of the Incas to the raw material of the gigantic crisp industry. Featuring an Irish politician, an English historian, a French chef and a Peruvian geneticist.

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Detailing the life of an influential 1960s British record producer, the first to top both the UK and US pop music charts with the same record.

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This is the story of Radio Caroline the legendary pirate radio station that helped to reinvent the 60s and lead to an explosion of popular music and the opening up of the airwaves. It shows how charismatic club owner and artist manager Ronan O'Rahilly desperate at the lack of space on the air ways to hear the new emerging music came up with a plan. He would park a boat in international waters and broadcast pop and rock into the UK in defiance of the authorities. It worked beyond his wildest dreams.

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Reenactments of passages from the controversial Kenneth Anger collection of tawdry gossip about the golden age of Hollywood.

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A highly innovative arts documentary, which uses the latest special effects, to investigate the cultural and scientific background behind the way we judge people by their face. The documentary was presented by US artist and musician, Laurie Anderson whose face was transformed into iconic and historic stereotypes as she talked. Special effects were created by Christopher Tucker.