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 10 episodes
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Episode 1
The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior
Episode 2
Fit to Drop
Episode 3
It's Eileen
Episode 4
A Summer in the Country
Episode 5
Battleship Beach
Episode 6
Brief Encounters
Episode 7
Malika's Hotel
Episode 8
Chocolate!
Episode 9
Whatever Happened to Susi?
Episode 10
Clever Trevor
Episode 11
Around Midnight
Episode 12
Where There's Hope
Episode 13
The Prisoner
Episode 14
Welcome to Surbiton
Episode 15
A Cruel Ritual
Episode 16
Children of the Fire
Episode 17
The Big Game
Episode 18
Our Brilliant Careers
Episode 19
Battered Men
Episode 20
The Entertainers
Episode 21
Video Vultures
Episode 22
Beyond the Crystal Ball
Episode 23
Suburbs in the Sky
Episode 24
Fly Me to Dunoon