Underground: Arena
Arena - Underground
Season 2007
An edition from 2007 celebrating the first 150 years of the Tube, the world's oldest underground railway system and a peculiarly British institution used by three million people every day. Through poetry, music and film, the stories of passengers and drivers are woven into reconstructions of the network's history, beginning with a public hanging in 1863 and including its wartime use as a massive air raid shelter
Underground: Arena airs on BBC Four at 11:20 PM, Monday 17 November. (Subtitles, audio description.)
Topics
Arts ➝ Culture (without music)
General
News ➝ Current Affairs
Documentary
Martin Rosenbaum
Producer
Zimena Percival
Director
Anthony Wall
Series Editor