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.
Rough justice
Sister genevieve
Hijack
Give us the vote
Lol: a bona queen of fabularity
Marathon man
Rocky circus
Gorilla g gorilla
The harrisons don't go to school
Alison
Sex, drugs and the vicar
Children's parties
The great cover-up
Brighton or bust
The last resort
The george formby story
Burgled
Bomber and brendan
Mutiny
Saved in the nick of time
Birth reborn
Hunt saboteurs
Heart transplant
Heart transplant: 2 - a fight for life
Heart transplant: 3
Heart transplant: 4 - bruce anderson, new heart
Heart transplant: 5 - recovery
Heart transplant: 6 - a matter of life and death
Heart transplant: 7
Roedean
Skinheads
Rabbits don't cry
An emotional matter
Lost in a crowd
The cruelty man
Miners
Mr. moonlight
The lads' night out
How do i look?
Mister perks
Package tour
Something to do with video
The rovers
Honour thy father and thy mother
Freshers
English lesson
Female circumcision
A minor incident at the berlaymont
A gentle way with cancer: part 1
A gentle way with cancer: part 2
A gentle way with cancer: part 3
A gentle way with cancer: part 4
A gentle way with cancer: part 5
A gentle way with cancer: part 6
Mistress
Bodyline
Something for the ladies
House of love
Innocent until proved guilty
Jail within a jail
Who's a pretty girl, then?
Pranks
1984 voices in a city
Health farm
Swiss finishing school
Divorce: unreasonable behaviour
Divorce: the law... and after
The mating season
Skiffle
Pigeons: queer facts
Educating michael
Delmelza's baby
A problem with sex
The school on the hill
Animal antiques
Travelling hopefully
Sun city
Bertie and the bomb
Oh alien
Boycott
Gigolo
The happy medium
The grendon experiment
Love in exile
On the throne
Rent boys
Asylum
The loved ones
The promised land
Talking proper
Sweet f.a.
The end of the pier show
The outcasts
Love story
Free!
Whose house is it anyway?
The eternal triangle: the mistress
The eternal triangle: the wife
The eternal triangle: the husband
Union street
Whatever happened to baby paul?
Matters of life and death
Star paws
Laughter in gabrovo
Dear mr president
In between days
50 years on
Schoolgirl mum
Johnny oddball
Forget-me-not
Searching for a miracle
Page 3 girls
Keep taking the rose petals
Animal crackers
Our man in shanghai
A house of hope
The gift of life
Flight from vatersay
Stop the wedding!
Student nurse
Emergency - bloomsbury 3
How to find a lover
Cry for home
The fishing party
The real life of a hollywood wife
A case of malicious wounding
Come home julie
Nuts!
Countdown to today
The last day
A passage to wisbech
Ten days in holloway
Dancing in the rain
Rescue
Olga goes to hollywood
The englishwoman's wardrobe
Special: the dump
Botham's out
The chosen few
The final board
Dear sister
Just for william
Short stories
Home from the hill
Struggle for stonebridge
Stirring stuff
Do you still love me?
A cabinet of curiosities
Bad blood
Fire!
The quest for sergeant miller
House of spirits
A new girl
Fly me
The mighty leek
Troublesome people
Street girls
Bombay hotel
Terror
Girls apart
Love at first sight
Poor man's eton
East side story
The case of sherlock holmes
Party time
Catch a fallen star
Convictions
If you love him, let him go
Jackpot
Scarfe's follies
Thames wallah
Changing places
Diary of a frontliner
Annie doesn't work here any more
The great north road
I, alison...
Children of the open road
Five go to florida
Who will love billy?
Who needs a machine gunner?
Women in black
My african farm
Separate tables
Waiting
Mixed blessings
Dolebusters
I want to live
The gypsies are coming
Desirable dwellings
A policewoman's lot
Making the grade
Greenfinches
Jam today
To have and to hold
The day i met the queen
The kingdom of fun
Our darren
Jealousy
Cairo vets
I like the girls who do
Knickerbockers in knightsbridge
Ghost train
Raging belles
By steam to sennar junction
Wedding at easington
Violent
Catwalk
Two sides of a street
Inside broadmoor
Laid off
London lighthouse
Who'll win jeanette?
Danger men
Me and my bike
Crack doctors
City parish
Best friends
The heart of the angel
Bullies
Out of the ruins
All about ambridge
Stage struck
A place for tom
Darling, let's start up an airline
He's playing our song
Hilary's in hiding
S.a. blues
Adventures in the skin trade
A safe sex for a safe seat
Green police
The burny mob go wild
Many happy returns!
Tracey's search
How could she?
Mac to the u.s.s.r.
Killer bimbos on fleet street
Karl's kidney - for sale
A view from a bridge
The thawing of a cold war warrior
Fit to drop
It's eileen
A summer in the country
Battleship beach
Brief encounters
Malika's hotel
Chocolate!
Whatever happened to susi?
Clever trevor
Around midnight
Where there's hope
The prisoner
Welcome to surbiton
A cruel ritual
Children of the fire
The big game
Our brilliant careers
Battered men
The entertainers
Video vultures
Beyond the crystal ball
Suburbs in the sky
Fly me to dunoon
Alec the pole
Short, sharp and shocking
Autogeddon
Anyone for tennis?
Berlin lights
Torn apart
Windermere's burning
Heads on beds
Boobs in toyland
When the canaries stop singing
Wild men
Charlotte and abi
Cowboys in the south pacific
She married a lifer
Miami wild
Elvis in jarrow
So much to lose
Farewell, fab 208
Soldier's diary
Get out!
Not at their age
A child for hitler
Dear mr. pink
Weather
Sanctuary
I won't... i can't
Away the lads
Mart and mandy
Will they ring tonight?
A change of heart
The lady killers
Limehouse doctor
The agony of the ecstasy - 100 years of sex advice
Hostage
The importance of being ernie
Ladies in lines
Three big men
Rape
Prisoner hc3970
Shattered dreams
War artist
Girl friends
Police surgeon
Moscow gold
Latin nights
The making of them
Caraline's story
Heads and tales
Behind the mask
Squeegies
Spent forces
Why blame the mother?
Portrait of a mid-life crisis
Manila - the real thing
A case of corporate murder
After the bomb
Wonderful land
Fay presto - illusions of grandeur
Living in a boom time
Times remembered
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