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 8 episodes
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Episode 1
Dolebusters
Episode 2
I Want to Live
Episode 3
The Gypsies Are Coming
Episode 4
Desirable Dwellings
Episode 5
A Policewoman's Lot
Episode 6
Making the Grade
Episode 7
Greenfinches
Episode 8
Jam Today
Episode 9
To Have and to Hold
Episode 10
The Day I Met the Queen
Episode 11
The Kingdom of Fun
Episode 12
Our Darren
Episode 13
Jealousy
Episode 14
Cairo Vets
Episode 15
I Like the Girls Who Do
Episode 16
Knickerbockers in Knightsbridge
Episode 17
Ghost Train
Episode 18
Raging Belles
Episode 19
By Steam to Sennar Junction
Episode 20
Wedding at Easington
Episode 21
Violent
Episode 22
Catwalk
Episode 23
Two Sides of a Street
Episode 24
Inside Broadmoor
Episode 25
Laid Off
Episode 26
London Lighthouse
Episode 27
Who'll Win Jeanette?