40 Minutes

Season 10

1990 · 24 episodes · 16h 0m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior

   25 Oct 1990 · 40 min

2. 2

   2. Fit to Drop

   1 Nov 1990 · 40 min

3. 3

   3. It's Eileen

   8 Nov 1990 · 40 min

4. 4

   4. A Summer in the Country

   15 Nov 1990 · 40 min

5. 5

   5. Battleship Beach

   22 Nov 1990 · 40 min

6. 6

   6. Brief Encounters

   29 Nov 1990 · 40 min

7. 7

   7. Malika's Hotel

   6 Dec 1990 · 40 min

   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'.

8. 8

   8. Chocolate!

   20 Dec 1990 · 40 min

9. 9

   9. Whatever Happened to Susi?

   3 Jan 1991 · 40 min

10. 10

    10. Clever Trevor

    10 Jan 1991 · 40 min

    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.

11. 11

    11. Around Midnight

    24 Jan 1991 · 40 min

12. 12

    12. Where There's Hope

    31 Jan 1991 · 40 min

13. 13

    13. The Prisoner

    7 Feb 1991 · 40 min

14. 14

    14. Welcome to Surbiton

    14 Feb 1991 · 40 min

15. 15

    15. A Cruel Ritual

    21 Feb 1991 · 40 min

    '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.

16. 16

    16. Children of the Fire

    28 Feb 1991 · 40 min

    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.

17. 17

    17. The Big Game

    7 Mar 1991 · 40 min

18. 18

    18. Our Brilliant Careers

    14 Mar 1991 · 40 min

19. 19

    19. Battered Men

    21 Mar 1991 · 40 min

20. 20

    20. The Entertainers

    28 Mar 1991 · 40 min

21. 21

    21. Video Vultures

    4 Apr 1991 · 40 min

22. 22

    22. Beyond the Crystal Ball

    11 Apr 1991 · 40 min

23. 23

    23. Suburbs in the Sky

    18 Apr 1991 · 40 min

24. 24

    24. Fly Me to Dunoon

    25 Apr 1991 · 40 min