40 Minutes
tv show
322 total episodes
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14 seasons
First Aired October 01, 1981
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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.
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Heads on Beds
Season 11 - Episode 8 - 1h 40m
Air Date
December 12, 1991
Overview
During the property boom, big profits could be made buying and selling London hotels used by councils to house the homeless. Now property prices have dropped and councils are cutting back on bed and breakfast bills. 40 Minutes takes a closer look at this notoriously secretive world.