Arena Tuesday 27 August 2013
coming up on Friday's show.....films for review include the "The Magnificent Seven" protecting the underdog, a childhood friendship put in danger by irritating adults in "Little Men" and Irish troops battling mercenaries in the Congo during "The Siege of Jadotville" and the latest albums from David Bowie's back catalogue, Billy Bragg and Warpaint
Arena
Daily arts and popular culture show, presented by Evelyn O'Rourke.
Netflix
It's made headlines this year with Big Series like 'House of Cards', 'Arrested Development' and 'Orange is the New Black', but is Netflix changing the way we watch film and television? Simon Maher joins Evelyn, to explore that question.
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Music of The Lock Out
The Lockout remains the largest incidence of industrial action the state has ever seen with more than 20,000 workers either locked out of their jobs by their employers or on strike, central to the Lock Out was the music of the time Francis Devine joins Evelyn O Rourke to discuss.
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Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin
Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin is a new biography of Led Zeppelin by Barney Hoskyns - John Byrne has been wading through it for Arena.
Pride and Prejudice - the Musical
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of one of the most popular and enduring love stories Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice - the Musical", is currently on tour.
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The Armoury Show
The Armory Show was a landmark modern art exhibition that took place in America one hundred years ago. it scandalised a nation and prompted then President Theordore Roosevelt to declare 'That's not art!'. Declan Long joins Evelyn to discuss the exhibition and its impact
Music Played on the Show
Whole Lotta Love
Led Zeppelin
5:44
Rock And Roll
Led Zeppelin
3:53
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