Jessie Matthews
40 Minutes (1981)
Season 10
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.
Released Sept. 30, 1981
Episode 40 min
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Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.running-time-in-the-title, imdb.two-word-title
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S10E1 - The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior
Oct. 25, 1990, midnight
S10E2 - Fit to Drop
Nov. 1, 1990, midnight
S10E3 - It's Eileen
Nov. 8, 1990, midnight
S10E4 - A Summer in the Country
Nov. 15, 1990, midnight
S10E5 - Battleship Beach
Nov. 22, 1990, midnight
S10E6 - Brief Encounters
Nov. 29, 1990, midnight
S10E7 - Malika's Hotel
Malika Shawa is an old girl of Cheltenham Ladies College. She's also a Palestinian aristocrat, who owns the only hotel in the Gaza Strip. In the refugee camp next door, the Palestinian intifada - an uprising against Israeli occupation - began three years ago this week. Today, Malika's guests are a strange collection of journalists, diplomats and foreigners on fact-finding tours. For them, her hotel is 'an oasis from the filth, smells and violence that surrounds it'.
Dec. 6, 1990, midnight
S10E8 - Chocolate!
Dec. 20, 1990, midnight
S10E9 - Whatever Happened to Susi?
Jan. 3, 1991, midnight
S10E10 - Clever Trevor
The BBC 40 Mins documentary team follow Trevor Smith, owner of Trevor Smith's Animal World, a company that supplies animals for film and television.
Jan. 10, 1991, midnight
S10E11 - Around Midnight
Jan. 24, 1991, midnight
S10E12 - Where There's Hope
Jan. 31, 1991, midnight
S10E13 - The Prisoner
Feb. 7, 1991, midnight
S10E14 - Welcome to Surbiton
Feb. 14, 1991, midnight
S10E15 - A Cruel Ritual
'I was born and brought up in Britain. I was 8 years old when I was circumcised. I really thought I was going to die, because of the pain, having no anaesthetic. You have a lady holding your mouth so you cannot scream, you have two ladies on your chest and the other two holding the legs.'. Seven years ago, 40 Minutes' first film on female circumcision led to the law which banned it in this country. Today's film reveals that the practice of genital mutilation of young girls is still flourishing in Britain today.
Feb. 21, 1991, midnight
S10E16 - Children of the Fire
Five young Russian survivors of the Soviet Union's worst rail disaster arrive in Manchester for medical treatment. Badly burned in the explosion in 1989, they hope plastic surgeon Stewart Watson can help. Bewildered, without a word of English, they face major surgery and the unfamiliar west. Immediately they're the centre of attraction, with a press conference on their first day in hospital and an invitation to Downing Street before they leave.
Feb. 28, 1991, midnight
S10E17 - The Big Game
March 7, 1991, midnight
S10E18 - Our Brilliant Careers
March 14, 1991, midnight
S10E19 - Battered Men
March 21, 1991, midnight
S10E20 - The Entertainers
March 28, 1991, midnight
S10E21 - Video Vultures
April 4, 1991, midnight
S10E22 - Beyond the Crystal Ball
April 11, 1991, midnight
S10E23 - Suburbs in the Sky
April 18, 1991, midnight
S10E24 - Fly Me to Dunoon
April 25, 1991, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 40 min.
Season Runtime: 40 min.
Released: Sept. 30, 1981
Last Air Date: April 19, 1994, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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