40 Minutes
1981 Details & reviews
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.
Season 1 episodes
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Episode 1
Rough Justice
Episode 2
Sister Genevieve
Episode 3
Hijack
Episode 4
Give Us the Vote
Episode 5
Lol: A Bona Queen of Fabularity
Episode 6
Marathon Man
Episode 7
Rocky Circus
Episode 8
Gorilla G Gorilla
Episode 9
The Harrisons Don't Go to School
Episode 10
Alison
Episode 11
Sex, Drugs and the Vicar
Episode 12
Children's Parties
Episode 13
The Great Cover-up
Episode 14
Brighton or Bust
Episode 15
The Last Resort
Episode 16
The George Formby Story
Episode 17
Burgled
Episode 18
Bomber and Brendan
Episode 19
Mutiny
Episode 20
Saved in the Nick of Time
Episode 21
Birth Reborn
Episode 22
Hunt Saboteurs
Episode 23
Heart Transplant
Episode 24
Heart Transplant: 2 - A Fight for Life
Episode 25
Heart Transplant: 3
Episode 26
Heart Transplant: 4 - Bruce Anderson, New Heart
Episode 27
Heart Transplant: 5 - Recovery
Episode 28
Heart Transplant: 6 - A Matter of Life and Death
Episode 29
Heart Transplant: 7