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Status
Ended
Release
1981 - 1994
Seasons / Eps
14 / 322
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.
23 Cast Members
Ian Holm
Narrator
2 Episodes
Tim Pigott-Smith
1 Episodes
Jessie Matthews
1 Episodes
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
1 Episodes
Ernie Wise
1 Episodes
George Formby
1 Episodes
Benjamin Zephaniah
1 Episodes
Gary Glitter
1 Episodes
Brendan Ingle
1 Episodes
Michel Odent
1 Episodes
Frankie Vaughan
1 Episodes
Bertrand Russell
1 Episodes
Geoffrey Boycott
1 Episodes
Doris Stokes
1 Episodes
Samantha Fox
Self
1 Episodes
Linda Lusardi
1 Episodes
Ian Botham
1 Episodes
Gerald Scarfe
1 Episodes
Max Miller
1 Episodes
Klondyke Kate
1 Episodes
