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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Documentary
- Created By
- First Aired on
Oct 01, 1981
- Popularity: 22.8044
- 3 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
14 seaons till Apr 19, 1994
Last episode: Times Remembered
Seasons & episodes
Total 14 seasons, 322 episodes
Season 1
Aired
29 Episodes
Episode 1Rough Justice40 min
Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil.
Episode 2Sister Genevieve40 min
Portrait of a Comprehensive School in the heart of the Falls Road, Belfast.
Episode 3Hijack40 min
Story of a Hijack on Independence Day 1977 in New York.
Episode 4Give Us the Vote40 min
Test case for inmates of mental hospital to get the vote.
Episode 5Lol: A Bona Queen of Fabularity40 min
Life style of Quentin Crisp-esque 'Queen'.
