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.
Oct 7, 1982 - 40m
The leading girls' public school.
Oct 14, 1982 - 40m
Four 'skins' in 1982 London; their lifestyle and the skinhead culture.
Oct 21, 1982 - 40m
Looks at the increasing militancy of activists protesting at experiments on animals.
Oct 28, 1982 - 40m
The senior education officer in Durham County and his difficult decisions to close certain schools.
Nov 4, 1982 - 40m
Problems of loneliness. Five people who are trying to find their own ways to deal with overcome loneliness are in a compartment in a train. They tell their stories to us, but do not communicate with each other, despite their shared problem.
Nov 11, 1982 - 40m
A typical week for Howard Wolfenden, one of 250 NSPCC inspectors who investigate child cruelty cases.
Nov 25, 1982 - 40m
Looks at the lives and beliefs of miners in a small Yorkshire mining community.
Dec 2, 1982 - 40m
The life and career of Frankie Vaughan, the entertainer.
Dec 9, 1982 - 40m
The charity dinner for the Stable Lads Welfare Trust.
Dec 16, 1982 - 40m
Extreme slimming remedies including wiring jaws together and surgery.
Jan 13, 1983 - 40m
Bernard Perks, who has spent 15 of his 20 adult years in prison, is about to be released and his problem in combating alcoholism.
Jan 20, 1983 - 40m
Holiday makers on a flight from Manchester to Spain, their impression of their holidays in Benidorm and their return to Manchester.
Jan 27, 1983 - 40m
The domestic and commercial uses of video including surveillance.
Feb 3, 1983 - 40m
Tranmere Rovers FC, fighting for survival in their centenary season
Feb 10, 1983 - 40m
Children who have to look after their elderly parents.
Feb 17, 1983 - 40m
New arrivals at Liverpool University coping with their first time away from home, especially the problems of a blind student, Gillian Wake.
Feb 24, 1983 - 40m
Nine Polish seamen who sought political asylum in the Falklands where they were caught up in the war and their later stateless existence in London.
Mar 3, 1983 - 40m
Female circumcision in the Sudan and the evidence that it is practiced in the western world.
Mar 10, 1983 - 40m
Fishermen from the North-East attempt to lobby the EEC on the issue of fishing rights.
Mar 17, 1983 - 40m
The first of 6 films on the work of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre.
Mar 24, 1983 - 40m
No overview available.
Mar 31, 1983 - 40m
No overview available.
Apr 7, 1983 - 40m
No overview available.
Apr 14, 1983 - 40m
No overview available.
Apr 21, 1983 - 40m
No overview available.
