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 7 episodes
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Episode 1
Terror
Episode 2
Girls Apart
Episode 3
Love at First Sight
Episode 4
Poor Man's Eton
Episode 5
East Side Story
Episode 6
The Case of Sherlock Holmes
Episode 7
Party Time
Episode 8
Catch a Fallen Star
Episode 9
Convictions
Episode 10
If You Love Him, Let Him Go
Episode 11
Jackpot
Episode 12
Scarfe's Follies
Episode 13
Thames Wallah
Episode 14
Changing Places
Episode 15
Diary of a Frontliner
Episode 16
Annie Doesn't Work Here Any More
Episode 17
The Great North Road
Episode 18
I, Alison...
Episode 19
Children of the Open Road
Episode 20
Five Go to Florida
Episode 21
Who Will Love Billy?
Episode 22
Who Needs a Machine Gunner?
Episode 23
Women in Black
Episode 24
My African Farm
Episode 25
Separate Tables
Episode 26
Waiting
Episode 27
Mixed Blessings