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Images from the short films: busker, Tube train, platform in 1905)
  ARENA: UNDERGROUND SHORTS

During the filming of Arena: Underground, the team created some short films about London's Tube, exclusively for the web. As well as seeing how buskers are chosen you can join our hunt to identify an urn of ashes left on the Tube 10 years ago.

 
Busker playing guitar   BUSKERS 1
Meet some of the 300 buskers who make sweet music on London's Tube system, and eavesdrop on the audition process.
 Watch short film
 
Busker playing the banjo   BUSKERS 2
Six facts that you may not know about the buskers on London's Underground.
 Watch short film
 
Man smoking a pipe on the Underground   TRAIN TIME
Travel in time through London's Underground, starting in 1905.
 Watch short film
 
Ted Batchelor from the lost property office   UNDERGROUND URNIE
An urn labeled 'W Maile 5/10/98 Luton' was left on a Tube train in 1998 and was only claimed in 2007 after our video appeal (news update).
 Watch clip from Arena: Underground
 
 

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ARENA: UNDERGROUND New documentary about the capital's subterranean transport system Tube tales (London Underground sign)
TUBE NIGHT
An evening of programmes about London Underground
  Tube Night (a Tube train)
 DIRECTOR INTERVIEW
Zimena Percival talks about
Arena: Underground

 MY TUBE
BBC Four viewers' Underground anecdotes

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