40 MinutesStagione 6

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.

Dove guardare 40 Minutes • Stagione 6

27 Episodi

  • Ten Days in Holloway
    E1
    Ten Days in HollowayAn inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.
  • Dancing in the Rain
    E2
    Dancing in the RainThe glittery world of ballroom dancing - behind the scenes at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships, held this year in Blackpool.
  • Rescue
    E3
    RescueThe lives of the men who make up the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team - a voluntary body of men who help those in difficulty on Ben Nevis and the surrounding mountains.
  • Olga Goes to Hollywood
    E4
    Olga Goes to HollywoodIn 1978 David Lomax secretly interviewed a Russian couple in Moscow after they had been refused exit visas. They were filmed a year later as they arrived in the West. Now they live in Los Angeles. What price have they paid for their freedom?
  • The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
    E5
    The Englishwoman's WardrobeAngela Huth asks why is it that as a nation, we have such a rotten reputation as dressers? What are we trying to say about ourselves through our appearance? 'Oh not black again, dear,' says Denis - but Margaret Thatcher knows a secret or two about old faithfuls and reliable standbys. Tonight the Prime Minister reveals, for the first time, the inside story of her wardrobe. Selina Scott always wanting 'to look a bit different from everyone else'; the probation officer who last wore a dress when she danced with the Prince of Wales; the bubbly society hostess who seems to wear only party dresses; the housewife with an eye for the 20p bargain with a designer label - these are just some of the extraordinary and ordinary women who unlock their wardrobes and tell all, proving that the only thing in vogue is individuality.
  • Special: The Dump
    E6
    Special: The DumpPlans for dumping nuclear waste in rural Lincolnshire - and how traditionally conservative villagers were aroused to protest against them.
  • Botham's Out
    E7
    Botham's OutEngland cricket hero Ian Botham at home and at work during his Test Match ban.
  • The Chosen Few
    E8
    The Chosen FewThe Civil Service Selection Board has never been filmed before. The first of two programmes concentrates on two candidates, one an ex-employee of the Greater London Council, the other a "near miss" of last year.
  • The Final Board
    E9
    The Final BoardThe second film tells of two hopefuls at the last round, one hoping to enter the Foreign Office, the other aiming for the Home Office. Filmed from the points of view of both the candidates and the selectors. The final result is a shock.
  • Dear Sister
    E10
    Dear SisterEight sisters talk frankly and movingly about the complex relationship of sisterhood.
  • Just for William
    E11
    Just for WilliamTen-year-old William, suffering from leukaemia, undergoes a successful bone marrow transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London
  • Short Stories
    E12
    Short StoriesThe small world of dwarves and midgets.
  • Home from the Hill
    E13
    Home from the HillDocumentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook returned home to England after being evicted from his home in the Kenya Hills, and is finding it hard to readjust to the English way of life.
  • Struggle for Stonebridge
    E14
    Struggle for StonebridgeYoung blacks in deprived Brent struggle for a community centre in a bus garage.
  • Stirring Stuff
    E15
    Stirring StuffTea, Britain's national beverage - and the ladies who stir it.
  • Do You Still Love Me?
    E16
    Do You Still Love Me?Uneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.
  • A Cabinet of Curiosities
    E17
    A Cabinet of CuriositiesLucinda Lambton reveals strange and amusing tales from the dusty corners of museums.
  • Bad Blood
    E18
    Bad BloodThe annual re-union of thousands of bikers in South Dakota.
  • Fire!
    E19
    Fire!Kingston-upon-Hull (Yorks.) fire station in action.
  • The Quest for Sergeant Miller
    E20
    The Quest for Sergeant MillerThe son of a wartime aviator traces his father's remarkable survival and escape in France.
  • House of Spirits
    E21
    House of SpiritsSpiritualists in London's Belgravia communing with "the other side".
  • A New Girl
    E22
    A New GirlMoral problems facing a mother who has taken a pregnancy drug and whose child has suffered.
  • Fly Me
    E23
    Fly MeThe training of British Airways hostesses and cabin crew.
  • The Mighty Leek
    E24
    The Mighty LeekWorld championship competitive leek-growing in the North-East of England - with dirty deeds in the greenhouses.
  • Troublesome People
    E25
    Troublesome PeopleCaroline Moorehead inquires if pacifists have ever achieved anything over the years.
  • Street Girls
    E26
    Street GirlsChild and juvenile prostitutes in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
  • Bombay Hotel
    E27
    Bombay HotelUpstairs and downstairs at the famous Taj Mahal Hotel - a luxurious establishment surrounded by poverty.

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