40 Minutes (1981)
40 Minutes was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994. The documentaries could be on any possible subject, the only connection being that they last forty minutes. Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, Forty Minutes On.
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Episodes
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- 1 1. Shattered Dreams1993-11-16 · 40m
- 2 2. War Artist1993-11-23 · 40m
- 3 3. Girl Friends1993-11-30 · 40m
- 4 4. Police Surgeon1993-12-07 · 40m
- 5 5. Moscow Gold1993-12-14 · 40m
- 6 6. Latin Nights1993-12-21 · 40m
- 7 7. The Making of Them1994-01-04 · 40mIndependence, self-reliance, confidence. These are some of the qualities that the traditional single-sex English boarding school gives the children in its care. 40 Minutes follows
- 8 8. Caraline's Story1994-01-11 · 40m
- 9 9. Heads and Tales1994-01-18 · 40m
- 10 10. Behind the Mask1994-01-25 · 40mThis film looks at a theatre group who specialise in prison remedial work. By turning hardened criminals into actors, they challenge them to reveal human emotion from behind their
- 11 11. Squeegies1994-02-01 · 40mThe engaging lives and intimate stories of Squeegies - people who wash car windows at traffic lights for small change - in South London. Del, living with the effects of having grow
- 12 12. Spent Forces1994-02-08 · 40m
- 13 13. Why Blame the Mother?1994-02-22 · 40m
- 14 14. Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis1994-03-01 · 40m
- 15 15. Manila - The Real Thing1994-03-08 · 40m
- 16 16. A Case of Corporate Murder1994-03-15 · 40m
- 17 17. After the Bomb1994-03-22 · 40m
- 18 18. Wonderful Land1994-03-29 · 40m
- 19 19. Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur1994-04-05 · 40m
- 20 20. Living in a Boom Time1994-04-12 · 40m
- 21 21. Times Remembered1994-04-19 · 40m
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