40 Minutes

Season 13

1993 · 21 episodes · 14h 0m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Shattered Dreams

   16 Nov 1993 · 40 min

2. 2

   2. War Artist

   23 Nov 1993 · 40 min

3. 3

   3. Girl Friends

   30 Nov 1993 · 40 min

4. 4

   4. Police Surgeon

   7 Dec 1993 · 40 min

5. 5

   5. Moscow Gold

   14 Dec 1993 · 40 min

6. 6

   6. Latin Nights

   21 Dec 1993 · 40 min

7. 7

   7. The Making of Them

   4 Jan 1994 · 40 min

   Independence, self-reliance, confidence. These are some of the qualities that the traditional single-sex English boarding school gives the children in its care. 40 Minutes follows some 8-year-old boys off to different boarding schools for the first time. Their parents and headmasters are confident that they are doing the right thing. But some ex-boarders are not so sure. These men feel that the experience of boarding at a young age was damaging.

8. 8

   8. Caraline's Story

   11 Jan 1994 · 40 min

9. 9

   9. Heads and Tales

   18 Jan 1994 · 40 min

10. 10

    10. Behind the Mask

    25 Jan 1994 · 40 min

    This film looks at a theatre group who specialise in prison remedial work. By turning hardened criminals into actors, they challenge them to reveal human emotion from behind their masks of hardness.

11. 11

    11. Squeegies

    1 Feb 1994 · 40 min

    The engaging lives and intimate stories of Squeegies - people who wash car windows at traffic lights for small change - in South London. Del, living with the effects of having grown up in care up that stunted his promising career as a musician, Tony, struggling with abandonment and alcoholism and Leah, the mother figure of the group, who is pregnant, bringing new life and hope into the tough circumstances they inhabit.

12. 12

    12. Spent Forces

    8 Feb 1994 · 40 min

13. 13

    13. Why Blame the Mother?

    22 Feb 1994 · 40 min

14. 14

    14. Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis

    1 Mar 1994 · 40 min

15. 15

    15. Manila - The Real Thing

    8 Mar 1994 · 40 min

16. 16

    16. A Case of Corporate Murder

    15 Mar 1994 · 40 min

17. 17

    17. After the Bomb

    22 Mar 1994 · 40 min

18. 18

    18. Wonderful Land

    29 Mar 1994 · 40 min

19. 19

    19. Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur

    5 Apr 1994 · 40 min

20. 20

    20. Living in a Boom Time

    12 Apr 1994 · 40 min

21. 21

    21. Times Remembered

    19 Apr 1994 · 40 min