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 5 episodes
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Episode 1
In Between Days
Episode 2
50 Years On
Episode 3
Schoolgirl Mum
Episode 4
Johnny Oddball
Episode 5
Forget-Me-Not
Episode 6
Searching for a Miracle
Episode 7
Page 3 Girls
Episode 8
Keep Taking the Rose Petals
Episode 9
Animal Crackers
Episode 10
Our Man in Shanghai
Episode 11
A House of Hope
Episode 12
The Gift of Life
Episode 13
Flight from Vatersay
Episode 14
Stop the Wedding!
Episode 15
Student Nurse
Episode 16
Emergency - Bloomsbury 3
Episode 17
How to Find a Lover
Episode 18
Cry for Home
Episode 19
The Fishing Party
Episode 20
The Real Life of a Hollywood Wife
Episode 21
A Case of Malicious Wounding
Episode 22
Come Home Julie
Episode 23
Nuts!
Episode 24
Countdown to Today
Episode 25
The Last Day
Episode 26
A Passage to Wisbech