Arena - Wanderlust

Kinky Friedman interviews Willie Nelson in his tour bus in 1981, and Willie sings.

The Handsome Family perform on the verandah of a wooden shack in the Louisiana swamps.

Arena is the BBC's multi award-winning arts strand.

The Rolling Stones are interviewed on a visit to Morocco in 1989. They talk about visiting the country in 1967 and we hear Cecil Beaton's description of them as Mick Jagger and 'a sleepy band of gypsies'.

Ben E King riffs On Broadway from the back seat of a convertible. Clip from th 1988 Arena film The Great White Way

Spector speaks about production as creation and compairs himself to Leonardo Da Vinci and other rennaisance painters. Taken from the 2008 BBC Arena film The Agony and The Excasy of Phil Spector.

Excerpt from James Marsh's 1993 BBC Arena film exploring Lou Reed's connections with Warhol's art factory and the story behind his song Walk on The Wild Side.

Arena is the BBC's multi award-winning arts strand

Slim Gaillard accompanies Morrison in a performance of a passage from On The Road and then interviews Slim on knowing Karouac for the 1989 BBC Arena film How High The Moon.

Gaillard sings How High The Moon to the worlds only astronut - a peanut which went to the moon and back on Apollo 14. Taken from the 1989 BBC Arena film How High The Moon.

Gary Glitter becomes a fantasy shoe shiner and sings Some of My Best Friends are Shoes in Nigel Finch's 1985 BBC Arena film Ligmalion

Van Morrison and Bob Dylan perform Foreign Window in Greece, taken from the Arena documentary of 1992 One Irish Rover.

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden talks through choice items of clothing that embody the Heavy Metal aesthetic from the 1989 BBC Arena programme Heavy Metal.

A clip from Arena: Cool (2009).Gerry Mulligan's 1952 track 'Line for Lyons' is combined with images of the 'cool' 50s in California and a recording of an interview with Mulligan which drives home the importance of the 'West Coast Sound' to the history of Jazz music.

Jimmy Page plays the opening chords to Kashmir and talks about rock music in the 1989 BBC Arena programme Heavy Metal.

We join NME journalist Adrian Thrills on an impromtu visit to Two Tone HQ in 1980. Taken from the BBC Arena Film Rudies Come Back

Kinky Friedman introduces himself, describing his musical and writing career and his new log cabin in Texas. Filmed for the BBC Arena film Texas Saturday Night (1981).

Judy Collins is recorded by the production team of Arena: Moby Dick in 2008. She sings the folk song 'Farewell to Tarwathie' and speaks of the importance of Melville's book in her early life.

Tony Grinham shows us around the graveyard where he did location sound recording with Joe Meek. We hear the cat making 'human sounds' recorded by Meek there and later transcribed . Clip from the 1991 BBC Arena: The Strange Story of Joe Meek.

The Story of Joe Meek's record 'Telstar' - performed by The Tornados and written in celebration of the launch of the first communications satellite in 1962. Clip taken from Arena: The Strange Story of Joe Meek (1991).

Arena is the BBC's multi award-winning arts strandThe Peggy Sue who inspired the song of that name describes how she met Buddy Holley in the corridor of their local high school and we see the town where they both grew up. Taken from BBC Arena's 'Tales of Rock and Roll' directed by James Marsh.

A clip from BBC Arena's 'A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie' Anthony Wall introduces Slim Gaillard and we experience him speaking in his own language 'voutoreenee' and scatting with Dizzy.

A clip from Arena: Brian Eno- Another Green World. Eno's reflections about the way in which various different musical forms have influenced him are juxtaposed with footage of Roxy Music playing 'Do The Strand'.

A clip from Arena: Brian Eno- Another Green World. Eno describes his childhood bicycle adventures and the transcendence of being in nature and discusses his desire to create new places through musical innovation.