The series
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.
Episodes
Season 13 · 21 episodes · 1993
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Episode 116 Nov 199340m
Shattered Dreams
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Episode 223 Nov 199340m
War Artist
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Episode 330 Nov 199340m
Girl Friends
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Episode 47 Dec 199340m
Police Surgeon
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Episode 514 Dec 199340m
Moscow Gold
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Episode 621 Dec 199340m
Latin Nights
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Episode 74 Jan 199440m
The Making of Them
Independence, 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 some 8-year-old boys off to different boarding schools for …
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Episode 811 Jan 199440m
Caraline's Story
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Episode 918 Jan 199440m
Heads and Tales
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Episode 1025 Jan 199440m
Behind the Mask
This 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 masks of hardness.
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Episode 111 Feb 199440m
Squeegies
The 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 grown up in care up that stunted his promising career as a musi…
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Episode 128 Feb 199440m
Spent Forces
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Episode 1322 Feb 199440m
Why Blame the Mother?
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Episode 141 Mar 199440m
Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis
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Episode 158 Mar 199440m
Manila - The Real Thing
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Episode 1615 Mar 199440m
A Case of Corporate Murder
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Episode 1722 Mar 199440m
After the Bomb
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Episode 1829 Mar 199440m
Wonderful Land
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Episode 195 Apr 199440m
Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur
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Episode 2012 Apr 199440m
Living in a Boom Time
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Episode 2119 Apr 199440m
Times Remembered
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