About this season
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.
Episodes (15)
1. Sanctuary
Aired 16 February 1993 • 40 min
2. I Won't... I Can't
Aired 23 February 1993 • 40 min
3. Away the Lads
Aired 2 March 1993 • 40 min
4. Mart and Mandy
Aired 9 March 1993 • 40 min
What has happened to Essex Man in the 90's? Martin Smith and his girlfriend Mandy epitomise many young people whose champagne lifestyle has suffered in the recession-hit 90's. How do they feel about the country now?
5. Will They Ring Tonight?
Aired 16 March 1993 • 40 min
6. A Change of Heart
Aired 23 March 1993 • 40 min
7. The Lady Killers
Aired 30 March 1993 • 40 min
8. Limehouse Doctor
Aired 6 April 1993 • 40 min
9. The Agony of the Ecstasy - 100 Years of Sex Advice
Aired 13 April 1993 • 40 min
10. Hostage
Aired 20 April 1993 • 40 min
11. The Importance of Being Ernie
Aired 27 April 1993 • 40 min
12. Ladies in Lines
Aired 4 May 1993 • 40 min
13. Three Big Men
Aired 11 May 1993 • 40 min
14. Rape
Aired 18 May 1993 • 40 min
15. Prisoner HC3970
Aired 25 May 1993 • 40 min