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.
Showing Season 10 of 14
Season 10
1990
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01. The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior
1990-10-25
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02. Fit to Drop
1990-11-01
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03. It's Eileen
1990-11-08
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04. A Summer in the Country
1990-11-15
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05. Battleship Beach
1990-11-22
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06. Brief Encounters
1990-11-29
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07. Malika's Hotel
1990-12-06
Malika Shawa is an old girl of Cheltenham Ladies College. She's also a Palestinian aristocrat, who owns the only hotel in the Gaza Strip. In the refugee camp next door, the Palestinian intifada - an uprising against Israeli occupation - began three years ago this week. Today, Malika's guests are a strange collection of journalists, diplomats and foreigners on fact-finding tours. For them, her hotel is 'an oasis from the filth, smells and violence that surrounds it'.
08. Chocolate!
1990-12-20
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09. Whatever Happened to Susi?
1991-01-03
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10. Clever Trevor
1991-01-10
The BBC 40 Mins documentary team follow Trevor Smith, owner of Trevor Smith's Animal World, a company that supplies animals for film and television.
11. Around Midnight
1991-01-24
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12. Where There's Hope
1991-01-31
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13. The Prisoner
1991-02-07
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14. Welcome to Surbiton
1991-02-14
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15. A Cruel Ritual
1991-02-21
'I was born and brought up in Britain. I was 8 years old when I was circumcised. I really thought I was going to die, because of the pain, having no anaesthetic. You have a lady holding your mouth so you cannot scream, you have two ladies on your chest and the other two holding the legs.'. Seven years ago, 40 Minutes' first film on female circumcision led to the law which banned it in this country. Today's film reveals that the practice of genital mutilation of young girls is still flourishing in Britain today.
16. Children of the Fire
1991-02-28
Five young Russian survivors of the Soviet Union's worst rail disaster arrive in Manchester for medical treatment. Badly burned in the explosion in 1989, they hope plastic surgeon Stewart Watson can help. Bewildered, without a word of English, they face major surgery and the unfamiliar west. Immediately they're the centre of attraction, with a press conference on their first day in hospital and an invitation to Downing Street before they leave.
17. The Big Game
1991-03-07
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18. Our Brilliant Careers
1991-03-14
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19. Battered Men
1991-03-21
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20. The Entertainers
1991-03-28
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21. Video Vultures
1991-04-04
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22. Beyond the Crystal Ball
1991-04-11
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23. Suburbs in the Sky
1991-04-18
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24. Fly Me to Dunoon
1991-04-25
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