40 Minutes(1981-1994)

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  • Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Ian Holm

    Ian Holm

    Narrator

  • Jessie Matthews

    Jessie Matthews

  • Ernie Wise

    Ernie Wise

  • George Formby

    George Formby

  • Benjamin Zephaniah

    Benjamin Zephaniah

  • Gary Glitter

    Gary Glitter

  • Frankie Vaughan

    Frankie Vaughan

  • Samantha Fox

    Samantha Fox

    Self

  • Linda Lusardi

    Linda Lusardi

  • Ian Botham

    Ian Botham

  • Tim Pigott-Smith

    Tim Pigott-Smith

  • Gerald Scarfe

    Gerald Scarfe

  • Max Miller

    Max Miller

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    Status

    Ended

    Seasons

    14

    Episodes

    322

    Last Air Date

    Apr 19, 1994

    Network

    BBC Two

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