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 30, 1983 - 40m
Interviews with three mistresses.
Nov 8, 1983 - 40m
The M.C.C. Cricket tour of Australia in 1931 and the controversial tactics of the M.C.C. Captain Douglas Jardine.
Nov 13, 1983 - 40m
Mr Universe, Bachelor of the Year and others competitions for men.
Nov 20, 1983 - 40m
The religious cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
Nov 27, 1983 - 40m
The remand system in the UK and the lives of untried prisoners.
Dec 4, 1983 - 40m
The maximum security unit at Maidstone Prison.
Dec 11, 1983 - 40m
Finding Miss Pears 1983.
Dec 18, 1983 - 40m
Professional pranksters and singing telegrams.
Jan 5, 1984 - 40m
Comparison between life in Orwell's novel and the reality of life in 1984.
Jan 12, 1984 - 40m
A week at a health farm.
Jan 19, 1984 - 40m
Three English girls at Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Switzerland.
Jan 26, 1984 - 40m
The effect of a divorce on a couple and their children
Feb 2, 1984 - 40m
How parents' access to children of a broken marriage is determined.
Feb 9, 1984 - 40m
The annual 'crack' at Lisdoonvarna in Ireland visited by a group of Chicagoan women in search of romance.
Feb 16, 1984 - 40m
The history of Skiffle and the development of 'home-made' music.
Feb 23, 1984 - 40m
Attitudes to pigeons.
Mar 1, 1984 - 40m
Working class children in assisted places at public schools.
Mar 8, 1984 - 40m
Attitudes in a small Cornish community to two lovers and their baby.
Mar 15, 1984 - 40m
The work of the sex therapist.
Mar 22, 1984 - 40m
Lagan College in Belfast, a school planned for the integration of protestants and Roman Catholics.
Mar 29, 1984 - 40m
Rare breeds of farm animals.
Apr 5, 1984 - 40m
Professional political lobbyists.
Apr 12, 1984 - 40m
The African Las Vegas.
Apr 19, 1984 - 40m
Bertrand Russell and the founding of CND.
Apr 26, 1984 - 40m
How the world would look to a being from another planet.
May 3, 1984 - 40m
The career of cricketer Geoffrey Boycott.
