40 Minutes

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 14
Total Episodes 323
Original Language EN

40 Minutes (1981)

⭐ 3.2 / 5 (5 votes) 🎬 14 Seasons 📼 323 Episodes 🏷️ Documentary 📡 Ended
⏱️
Series Status:

This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.

Ended

Synopsis

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.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Rough Justice

Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil.

E2 Sister Genevieve

Portrait of a Comprehensive School in the heart of the Falls Road, Belfast.

E3 Hijack

Story of a Hijack on Independence Day 1977 in New York.

E4 Give Us the Vote

Test case for inmates of mental hospital to get the vote.

E5 Lol: A Bona Queen of Fabularity

Life style of Quentin Crisp-esque 'Queen'.

E6 Marathon Man

Attempt to beat record run from John o' Groats to Land's End.

E7 Rocky Circus

Gary Glitter stars in Gerry Cottle's Circus.

E8 Gorilla G Gorilla

Gorilla N'Pongo gives birth to Kumi in Jersey Zoo.

E9 The Harrisons Don't Go to School

Hereford family educating children at home.

E10 Alison

Spastic girl's struggle to live a normal life.

E11 Sex, Drugs and the Vicar

Backstage at the News of the World.

E12 Children's Parties

An anthology of various children's parties.

E13 The Great Cover-up

The bald facts revealed: What men will do to counter hair loss.

E14 Brighton or Bust

The London to Brighton vintage car rally.

E15 The Last Resort

Glenthorne high security prison for youngsters.

E16 The George Formby Story

Biopic of renowned comedian and ukulelist.

E17 Burgled

Burglary - Britain's fastest growing industry.

E18 Bomber and Brendan

Sheffield's Herol 'Bomber' Graham and Brendan Ingle his trainer in bid for boxing glory.

E19 Mutiny

1943 Mutiny of British soldiers in Salerno.

E20 Saved in the Nick of Time

Artefacts saved from demolished buildings.

E21 Birth Reborn

Michel Odent and 'natural' childbirth at his clinic in Pithiviers France

E22 Hunt Saboteurs

Cameras follow shock troops of anti-hunt demonstrators disrupting hunt.

E23 Heart Transplant

Magdi Yacoub and his surgical team at work at Harefield Hospital.

E24 Heart Transplant: 2 - A Fight for Life
E25 Heart Transplant: 3
E26 Heart Transplant: 4 - Bruce Anderson, New Heart
E27 Heart Transplant: 5 - Recovery
E28 Heart Transplant: 6 - A Matter of Life and Death
E29 Heart Transplant: 7
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →