00:09Next week, Arena eavesdrops on a new adventure for Cockney Private Eye James Hazel,
00:14a creation of author Gordon Williams and football manager Terry Venables.
00:17And it's enacted for them by their ideal Hazels in the shape of Michael Elphick and John Bindon, respectively.
00:24Hazel meets his makers in next week's Arena at 10.25.
00:29Starting tomorrow in BBC Two's new season, The History Man, Howard Kirk, a trendy university sociologist.
00:35You have a solution for everyone. Take a Valium, have a party, shoot a soldier, bang a friend.
00:39Look, Barbara, I know there's a fashion now for failure and despair. I just don't see why we should go
00:44along with it.
00:45Why not? You've gone along with every other fashion.
00:48Anthony Schur is Howard Kirk, The History Man at 10.20.
00:51Before that, more drama with the BBC television Shakespeare.
00:55Jonathan Miller's production of All's Well That Ends Well is at 7.15.
00:59That's followed at 9.50 with a concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, James Last in London.
01:04To round off the evening at 10.11, British Movie Night, three into two won't go.
01:09Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom and Judy Geason make up an uneasy threesome in the 1969 drama directed by Peter Hall.
01:26Now, on to a few unpleasant surprises for Cary Grant on his wedding night in that vintage farce, Arsenic and
01:32Old Lace, our midnight movie.
