40 Minutes

October 1, 1981    40mDocumentary
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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.

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  • Ian HolmNarrator
  • Jessie Matthews
  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
  • Ernie Wise
  • George Formby
  • Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Gary Glitter
  • Brendan Ingle
  • Michel Odent
  • Frankie Vaughan
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Geoffrey Boycott
  • Doris Stokes
  • Samantha FoxSelf
  • Linda Lusardi
  • Ian Botham
  • Tim Pigott-Smith
  • Gerald Scarfe
  • Max Miller
  • Klondyke Kate

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