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 13 episodes
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Episode 1
Shattered Dreams
Episode 2
War Artist
Episode 3
Girl Friends
Episode 4
Police Surgeon
Episode 5
Moscow Gold
Episode 6
Latin Nights
Episode 7
The Making of Them
Episode 8
Caraline's Story
Episode 9
Heads and Tales
Episode 10
Behind the Mask
Episode 11
Squeegies
Episode 12
Spent Forces
Episode 13
Why Blame the Mother?
Episode 14
Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis
Episode 15
Manila - The Real Thing
Episode 16
A Case of Corporate Murder
Episode 17
After the Bomb
Episode 18
Wonderful Land
Episode 19
Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur
Episode 20
Living in a Boom Time
Episode 21
Times Remembered