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40 Minutes (1981)

October. 01,1981

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40 Minutes

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.

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40 Minutes

1981

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 13 : 1993

21 Episode

Episode 1 - Shattered Dreams

November. 16,1993

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The Last Frontier

The Lost Bus

Slow Horses

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Episode 2 - War Artist

November. 23,1993

Episode 3 - Girl Friends

November. 30,1993

Episode 4 - Police Surgeon

December. 07,1993

Episode 5 - Moscow Gold

December. 14,1993

Episode 6 - Latin Nights

December. 21,1993

Episode 7 - The Making of Them

January. 04,1994

Independence, self-reliance, confidence. These are some of the qualities that the traditional single-sex English boarding school gives the children in its care. 40 Minutes follows some 8-year-old boys off to different boarding schools for the first time. Their parents and headmasters are confident that they are doing the right thing. But some ex-boarders are not so sure. These men feel that the experience of boarding at a young age was damaging.

Episode 8 - Caraline's Story

January. 11,1994

Episode 9 - Heads and Tales

January. 18,1994

Episode 10 - Behind the Mask

January. 25,1994

This film looks at a theatre group who specialise in prison remedial work. By turning hardened criminals into actors, they challenge them to reveal human emotion from behind their masks of hardness.

Episode 11 - Squeegies

February. 01,1994

The engaging lives and intimate stories of Squeegies - people who wash car windows at traffic lights for small change - in South London. Del, living with the effects of having grown up in care up that stunted his promising career as a musician, Tony, struggling with abandonment and alcoholism and Leah, the mother figure of the group, who is pregnant, bringing new life and hope into the tough circumstances they inhabit.

Episode 12 - Spent Forces

February. 08,1994

Episode 13 - Why Blame the Mother?

February. 22,1994

Episode 14 - Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis

March. 01,1994

Episode 15 - Manila - The Real Thing

March. 08,1994

Episode 16 - A Case of Corporate Murder

March. 15,1994

Episode 17 - After the Bomb

March. 22,1994