40 Minutes

1. Rough Justice

Air Date: 1981-10-01

Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil.

2. Sister Genevieve

Air Date: 1981-10-08

Portrait of a Comprehensive School in the heart of the Falls Road, Belfast.

3. Hijack

Air Date: 1981-10-15

Story of a Hijack on Independence Day 1977 in New York.

4. Give Us the Vote

Air Date: 1981-10-22

Test case for inmates of mental hospital to get the vote.

5. Lol: A Bona Queen of Fabularity

Air Date: 1981-10-29

Life style of Quentin Crisp-esque 'Queen'.

6. Marathon Man

Air Date: 1981-11-05

Attempt to beat record run from John o' Groats to Land's End.

7. Rocky Circus

Air Date: 1981-11-12

Gary Glitter stars in Gerry Cottle's Circus.

8. Gorilla G Gorilla

Air Date: 1981-11-19

Gorilla N'Pongo gives birth to Kumi in Jersey Zoo.

9. The Harrisons Don't Go to School

Air Date: 1981-11-26

Hereford family educating children at home.

10. Alison

Air Date: 1981-12-03

Spastic girl's struggle to live a normal life.

11. Sex, Drugs and the Vicar

Air Date: 1981-12-10

Backstage at the News of the World.

12. Children's Parties

Air Date: 1981-12-17

An anthology of various children's parties.

13. The Great Cover-up

Air Date: 1982-01-14

The bald facts revealed: What men will do to counter hair loss.

14. Brighton or Bust

Air Date: 1982-01-21

The London to Brighton vintage car rally.

15. The Last Resort

Air Date: 1982-01-28

Glenthorne high security prison for youngsters.

16. The George Formby Story

Air Date: 1982-02-04

Biopic of renowned comedian and ukulelist.

17. Burgled

Air Date: 1982-02-11

Burglary - Britain's fastest growing industry.

18. Bomber and Brendan

Air Date: 1982-02-18

Sheffield's Herol 'Bomber' Graham and Brendan Ingle his trainer in bid for boxing glory.

19. Mutiny

Air Date: 1982-02-25

1943 Mutiny of British soldiers in Salerno.

20. Saved in the Nick of Time

Air Date: 1982-03-04

Artefacts saved from demolished buildings.

21. Birth Reborn

Air Date: 1982-03-11

Michel Odent and 'natural' childbirth at his clinic in Pithiviers France

22. Hunt Saboteurs

Air Date: 1982-03-18

Cameras follow shock troops of anti-hunt demonstrators disrupting hunt.

23. Heart Transplant

Air Date: 1982-03-25

Magdi Yacoub and his surgical team at work at Harefield Hospital.

24. Heart Transplant: 2 - A Fight for Life

Air Date: 1982-04-01

25. Heart Transplant: 3

Air Date: 1982-04-08

26. Heart Transplant: 4 - Bruce Anderson, New Heart

Air Date: 1982-04-15

27. Heart Transplant: 5 - Recovery

Air Date: 1982-04-22

28. Heart Transplant: 6 - A Matter of Life and Death

Air Date: 1982-04-29

29. Heart Transplant: 7

Air Date: 1982-05-06

1. Roedean

Air Date: 1982-10-07

The leading girls' public school.

2. Skinheads

Air Date: 1982-10-14

Four 'skins' in 1982 London; their lifestyle and the skinhead culture.

3. Rabbits Don't Cry

Air Date: 1982-10-21

Looks at the increasing militancy of activists protesting at experiments on animals.

4. An Emotional Matter

Air Date: 1982-10-28

The senior education officer in Durham County and his difficult decisions to close certain schools.

5. Lost in a Crowd

Air Date: 1982-11-04

Problems of loneliness. Five people who are trying to find their own ways to deal with overcome loneliness are in a compartment in a train. They tell their stories to us, but do not communicate with each other, despite their shared problem.

6. The Cruelty Man

Air Date: 1982-11-11

A typical week for Howard Wolfenden, one of 250 NSPCC inspectors who investigate child cruelty cases.

7. Miners

Air Date: 1982-11-25

Looks at the lives and beliefs of miners in a small Yorkshire mining community.

8. Mr. Moonlight

Air Date: 1982-12-02

The life and career of Frankie Vaughan, the entertainer.

9. The Lads' Night Out

Air Date: 1982-12-09

The charity dinner for the Stable Lads Welfare Trust.

10. How Do I Look?

Air Date: 1982-12-16

Extreme slimming remedies including wiring jaws together and surgery.

11. Mister Perks

Air Date: 1983-01-13

Bernard Perks, who has spent 15 of his 20 adult years in prison, is about to be released and his problem in combating alcoholism.

12. Package Tour

Air Date: 1983-01-20

Holiday makers on a flight from Manchester to Spain, their impression of their holidays in Benidorm and their return to Manchester.

13. Something to Do with Video

Air Date: 1983-01-27

The domestic and commercial uses of video including surveillance.

14. The Rovers

Air Date: 1983-02-03

Tranmere Rovers FC, fighting for survival in their centenary season

15. Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother

Air Date: 1983-02-10

Children who have to look after their elderly parents.

16. Freshers

Air Date: 1983-02-17

New arrivals at Liverpool University coping with their first time away from home, especially the problems of a blind student, Gillian Wake.

17. English Lesson

Air Date: 1983-02-24

Nine Polish seamen who sought political asylum in the Falklands where they were caught up in the war and their later stateless existence in London.

18. Female Circumcision

Air Date: 1983-03-03

Female circumcision in the Sudan and the evidence that it is practiced in the western world.

19. A Minor Incident at the Berlaymont

Air Date: 1983-03-10

Fishermen from the North-East attempt to lobby the EEC on the issue of fishing rights.

20. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 1

Air Date: 1983-03-17

The first of 6 films on the work of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre.

21. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 2

Air Date: 1983-03-24

22. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 3

Air Date: 1983-03-31

23. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 4

Air Date: 1983-04-07

24. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 5

Air Date: 1983-04-14

25. A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 6

Air Date: 1983-04-21

1. Mistress

Air Date: 1983-10-30

Interviews with three mistresses.

2. Bodyline

Air Date: 1983-11-08

The M.C.C. Cricket tour of Australia in 1931 and the controversial tactics of the M.C.C. Captain Douglas Jardine.

3. Something for the Ladies

Air Date: 1983-11-13

Mr Universe, Bachelor of the Year and others competitions for men.

4. House of Love

Air Date: 1983-11-20

The religious cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

5. Innocent Until Proved Guilty

Air Date: 1983-11-27

The remand system in the UK and the lives of untried prisoners.

6. Jail Within a Jail

Air Date: 1983-12-04

The maximum security unit at Maidstone Prison.

7. Who's a Pretty Girl, Then?

Air Date: 1983-12-11

Finding Miss Pears 1983.

8. Pranks

Air Date: 1983-12-18

Professional pranksters and singing telegrams.

9. 1984 Voices in a City

Air Date: 1984-01-05

Comparison between life in Orwell's novel and the reality of life in 1984.

10. Health Farm

Air Date: 1984-01-12

A week at a health farm.

11. Swiss Finishing School

Air Date: 1984-01-19

Three English girls at Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Switzerland.

12. Divorce: Unreasonable Behaviour

Air Date: 1984-01-26

The effect of a divorce on a couple and their children

13. Divorce: The Law... and After

Air Date: 1984-02-02

How parents' access to children of a broken marriage is determined.

14. The Mating Season

Air Date: 1984-02-09

The annual 'crack' at Lisdoonvarna in Ireland visited by a group of Chicagoan women in search of romance.

15. Skiffle

Air Date: 1984-02-16

The history of Skiffle and the development of 'home-made' music.

16. Pigeons: Queer Facts

Air Date: 1984-02-23

Attitudes to pigeons.

17. Educating Michael

Air Date: 1984-03-01

Working class children in assisted places at public schools.

18. Delmelza's Baby

Air Date: 1984-03-08

Attitudes in a small Cornish community to two lovers and their baby.

19. A Problem with Sex

Air Date: 1984-03-15

The work of the sex therapist.

20. The School on the Hill

Air Date: 1984-03-22

Lagan College in Belfast, a school planned for the integration of protestants and Roman Catholics.

21. Animal Antiques

Air Date: 1984-03-29

Rare breeds of farm animals.

22. Travelling Hopefully

Air Date: 1984-04-05

Professional political lobbyists.

23. Sun City

Air Date: 1984-04-12

The African Las Vegas.

24. Bertie and the Bomb

Air Date: 1984-04-19

Bertrand Russell and the founding of CND.

25. Oh Alien

Air Date: 1984-04-26

How the world would look to a being from another planet.

26. Boycott

Air Date: 1984-05-03

The career of cricketer Geoffrey Boycott.

1. Gigolo

Air Date: 1984-11-01

Gigolos and the different types.

2. The Happy Medium

Air Date: 1984-11-08

About the medium Doris Stokes.

3. The Grendon Experiment

Air Date: 1984-11-15

Grendon prison in Buckinghamshire, Britain's only voluntary psychiatric prison.

4. Love in Exile

Air Date: 1984-11-22

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in self-imposed exile.

5. On the Throne

Air Date: 1984-11-29

The history of lavatories.

6. Rent Boys

Air Date: 1984-12-06

Young male prostitutes in Manchester and Birmingham.

7. Asylum

Air Date: 1984-12-13

The mental asylum in Choroszcz in Poland where patients work in the community.

8. The Loved Ones

Air Date: 1984-12-20

The Animal Medical Centre in New York.

9. The Promised Land

Air Date: 1985-01-10

Britain forty years ago, contrasted with present day Britain.

10. Talking Proper

Air Date: 1985-01-17

Accents and dialects provoke strong prejudices and reactions. In a 40 Minutes film that examines why this should be, broadcaster Janet Street-Porter, Radio 4 announcer Susan Rae and actor Peter Bowles are among those who have suffered because of the way they speak. Meet the Queen's English Society, which keeps a candle burning for the purity of the spoken word, and the Devon Dialect Society, which has very different ideas about how vowels should sound. Eavesdrop on an elocution class, hear from Scottish schoolchildren whose accents might affect their job prospects, and go behind the scenes at the BBC Pronunciation Unit and the northern auditions for the Speaking Clock. See how fashions have changed over the years, and how trends are likely to develop in the future as we enter a world of talking robots and computers.

11. Sweet F.A.

Air Date: 1985-01-24

The group 'Fascinating Aida' and the making of their first pop record.

12. The End of the Pier Show

Air Date: 1985-01-31

The problems of putting on a show in the old style of pier entertainments at Cromer, Norfolk.

13. The Outcasts

Air Date: 1985-02-07

A group of 'Hell's Angels' in East Anglia.

14. Love Story

Air Date: 1985-02-14

A film for St Valentine's Day.

15. Free!

Air Date: 1985-02-21

Old Victorian mental hospitals are being closed down and the former patients face problems.

16. Whose House Is It Anyway?

Air Date: 1985-02-28

A local Council has a compulsory purchase order on the home of two elderly men.

17. The Eternal Triangle: The Mistress

Air Date: 1985-03-07

The first film in a trilogy which examines the Eternal Triangle.

18. The Eternal Triangle: The Wife

Air Date: 1985-03-14

The second film in a trilogy which examines the Eternal Triangle.

19. The Eternal Triangle: The Husband

Air Date: 1985-03-21

The third film in a trilogy which examines the Eternal Triangle.

20. Union Street

Air Date: 1985-03-28

Plymouth, the area near the docks.

21. Whatever Happened to Baby Paul?

Air Date: 1985-04-04

The story of a woman who took her baby to hospital where he was found to have several fractures. She denied having caused the injuries but he was taken from her care.

22. Matters of Life and Death

Air Date: 1985-04-11

The effects of government cuts leading to the closure of a ward in Guy's Children's Hospital.

23. Star Paws

Air Date: 1985-04-18

Animals used in advertising.

24. Laughter in Gabrovo

Air Date: 1985-05-02

The biennial festival of humour in Bulgaria. Can humour cross national boundaries?

25. Dear Mr President

Air Date: 1985-05-09

The story of a family whose daughter is handicapped because of a drug taken by her mother during pregnancy. The American drug company claims the drug is safe.

1. In Between Days

Air Date: 1985-10-10

A film about being 16. A group of four friends in between being children and adults, emotionally, sexually and physically.

2. 50 Years On

Air Date: 1985-10-17

A Golden Wedding holiday. Four couples married in 1935 celebrate 50 years of life together, and talk of the happiness and sadness of their golden years.

3. Schoolgirl Mum

Air Date: 1985-10-24

Girls who become pregnant under 16. The girls, their boy-friends and their parents talk about the consequences.

4. Johnny Oddball

Air Date: 1985-10-31

10 years ago a famous documentary was made by Franc Roddam about "Mini" Cooper, a most attractive and intelligent child arsonist. Now released from a secure psychiatric institution, he hopes to make a career as a magician.

5. Forget-Me-Not

Air Date: 1985-11-07

A Western-style beauty contest in austerity-ridden Poland.

6. Searching for a Miracle

Air Date: 1985-11-14

A child with a genetic disease and his young parents go from Northern Ireland on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, in the French Pyrenees. After a week they find there is a change.

7. Page 3 Girls

Air Date: 1985-11-21

The story of Sharon, a young hopeful still at school, ambitious to become a famous top-less pin-up, like Samantha Fox and Linda Lusardi.

8. Keep Taking the Rose Petals

Air Date: 1985-11-28

Asian alternative-medicine men in Britain, attracting increasing custom from Westerners.

9. Animal Crackers

Air Date: 1985-12-05

All over Britain are strange and delightful buildings with one thing in common - they were created for animals. Lucinda Lambton is your guide to such follies. Castles, temples, palaces, obelisks and pyramids, they are a happy by-product of the British passion for animals.

10. Our Man in Shanghai

Air Date: 1985-12-12

The Foreign Office opens a new mission in China. The film follows the new Consul-General during his first week in Shanghai. A high-powered trade delegation is due, led by Lord Young; our man has to look after them while finding his own feet. He succeeds in seeing the only performing panda in the world.

11. A House of Hope

Air Date: 1985-12-19

A film for Christmas. Alcholics, criminals, down-and-outs and tramps find a sanctuary in a remarkable Christian community in Dorset.

12. The Gift of Life

Air Date: 1986-01-09

Seven couples in Hammersmith Hospital go through the long and painful process of trying to conceive a test-tube baby. one succeeds.

13. Flight from Vatersay

Air Date: 1986-01-16

The Hebrides - idyllic isles of wild beauty, majestic, remote, peaceful? That's not how Neil Gillies, 23 years old and unemployed, sees his island home of Vatersay. For him it's a place of isolation, boredom and drink. He can't wait to leave Vatersay, his widowed mother and his eight brothers and sisters, to try his luck in Glasgow. His prospects aren't good. Jobs are scarce, accommodation hard to find. There are compensations - Vatersay has few girls; Glasgow seems alive with them. Over the months, the demands of fending for himself begin to tell. When Neil leaves his hard-won job he escapes into the illusory comfort of alcohol. Should he have stayed on the island? Or can he come to terms with this uncompromising city of bed-sits, the dole and bars?

14. Stop the Wedding!

Air Date: 1986-01-23

Strange and moving tales of people being jilted at the altar.

15. Student Nurse

Air Date: 1986-01-30

The pressure on student nurses. Three girls at different stages of their training at St. James Infirary, Leeds.

16. Emergency - Bloomsbury 3

Air Date: 1986-02-06

Dramas of life and death with the ambulance service in action in central London.

17. How to Find a Lover

Air Date: 1986-02-13

The singles scene in Miami, Dallas and New York.

18. Cry for Home

Air Date: 1986-02-20

'I'm British', says the young lady with strawberry blonde hair and a Midlands accent, 'but I don't have a drop of British blood in me.' Carmen Laanemagi is from Leicester - and Estonia. Pauline Riemers is a nurse in Epsom; her parents are Latvian. Algis Kuliukas, a British Airways computer programmer, lives in Hounslow; he's part-Lithuanian. Last July they embarked on the Baltic Star in Stockholm. It was the beginning of an emotional and exciting voyage. The aim was to sail as close as they could get to the coasts of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - now part of the Soviet Union. Forty years ago their parents had fled as refugees when the three Baltic states lost their short-lived independence. Now the lost children were returning - hoping for a distant glimpse of home. Narrator Ian Holm

19. The Fishing Party

Air Date: 1986-02-27

They are four friends, rich young men - city commodity-brokers, the drinks trade. They belong to the right clubs. They hunt, shoot, play polo, make money. They had the idea of going fishing in Scotland for a few days in the autumn, to see if they could break the world record for a catch of skate. They ended up with something else. As the October weather squalls and shines, as the boat rolls on the stormy waters of the Pentland Firth, as the days pass without the big bite, so the jokes flow, the bottles are cracked, and Robert, John, Henry and Guy reveal their spirited, outspoken opinions. "Better for some to have privilege rather than nobody - let's lead from the top, not the bottom ... Many of our friends, in the City and the army, worry about the aggressive young men of the loony left...."

20. The Real Life of a Hollywood Wife

Air Date: 1986-03-06

The women who really matter in the dream city. Reporter - Mrs Richard Burton.

21. A Case of Malicious Wounding

Air Date: 1986-03-13

A Yorkshire coal miner caught up in the bitter industrial warfare between strike pickets and police. The traumatic events of 24 August 1984 have changed the course of his life.

22. Come Home Julie

Air Date: 1986-03-20

A young black girl, once fostered by a Scottish family, then snatched back to Ghana, returns to her foster parents - with not altogether happy results.

23. Nuts!

Air Date: 1986-03-27

The tragic and comic story of the ground nut scheme, a Government fiasco of the 1940s.

24. Countdown to Today

Air Date: 1986-04-03

The inside story of the birth of a new daily newspaper, filmed over a period of months.

25. The Last Day

Air Date: 1986-04-10

The story of three people retiring from work in Lancashire, their families, and their changed way of life.

26. A Passage to Wisbech

Air Date: 1986-04-17

Carrick is a dirty British coaster - a 30-year-old tramp carrying unglamorous cargoes from port to port in the Channel and the North Sea. Her skipper and owner is Rick Waters , once part-time butler to Edward Heath: 'I resent people calling my ship a rust-bucket. She's an old lady who needs the occasional helping hand.' George Norman, the mate, looks after the cargoes. The ship could capsize if a cargo shifts at sea. Tom Owen, ex-Royal Navy, struggles with Carrick's dodgy engine. 'Most other merchant seamen regard coaster crews as the scum of the earth,' he says. Carrick makes uncertain progress through the mad March days, carrying fertilizer to Exmouth, grain to Antwerp, and spuds, improbably, to Wisbech. Coasters like Carrick can reach the ports that other ships can't....

1. Ten Days in Holloway

Air Date: 1986-10-09

An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.

2. Dancing in the Rain

Air Date: 1986-10-16

The glittery world of ballroom dancing - behind the scenes at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships, held this year in Blackpool.

3. Rescue

Air Date: 1986-10-23

The lives of the men who make up the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team - a voluntary body of men who help those in difficulty on Ben Nevis and the surrounding mountains.

4. Olga Goes to Hollywood

Air Date: 1986-10-30

In 1978 David Lomax secretly interviewed a Russian couple in Moscow after they had been refused exit visas. They were filmed a year later as they arrived in the West. Now they live in Los Angeles. What price have they paid for their freedom?

5. The Englishwoman's Wardrobe

Air Date: 1986-11-20

Angela Huth asks why is it that as a nation, we have such a rotten reputation as dressers? What are we trying to say about ourselves through our appearance? 'Oh not black again, dear,' says Denis - but Margaret Thatcher knows a secret or two about old faithfuls and reliable standbys. Tonight the Prime Minister reveals, for the first time, the inside story of her wardrobe. Selina Scott always wanting 'to look a bit different from everyone else'; the probation officer who last wore a dress when she danced with the Prince of Wales; the bubbly society hostess who seems to wear only party dresses; the housewife with an eye for the 20p bargain with a designer label - these are just some of the extraordinary and ordinary women who unlock their wardrobes and tell all, proving that the only thing in vogue is individuality.

6. Special: The Dump

Air Date: 1986-11-25

Plans for dumping nuclear waste in rural Lincolnshire - and how traditionally conservative villagers were aroused to protest against them.

7. Botham's Out

Air Date: 1986-11-27

England cricket hero Ian Botham at home and at work during his Test Match ban.

8. The Chosen Few

Air Date: 1986-12-04

The Civil Service Selection Board has never been filmed before. The first of two programmes concentrates on two candidates, one an ex-employee of the Greater London Council, the other a "near miss" of last year.

9. The Final Board

Air Date: 1986-12-11

The second film tells of two hopefuls at the last round, one hoping to enter the Foreign Office, the other aiming for the Home Office. Filmed from the points of view of both the candidates and the selectors. The final result is a shock.

10. Dear Sister

Air Date: 1986-12-18

Eight sisters talk frankly and movingly about the complex relationship of sisterhood.

11. Just for William

Air Date: 1987-01-08

Ten-year-old William, suffering from leukaemia, undergoes a successful bone marrow transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London

12. Short Stories

Air Date: 1987-01-15

The small world of dwarves and midgets.

13. Home from the Hill

Air Date: 1987-01-22

Documentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook returned home to England after being evicted from his home in the Kenya Hills, and is finding it hard to readjust to the English way of life.

14. Struggle for Stonebridge

Air Date: 1987-01-29

Young blacks in deprived Brent struggle for a community centre in a bus garage.

15. Stirring Stuff

Air Date: 1987-02-05

Tea, Britain's national beverage - and the ladies who stir it.

16. Do You Still Love Me?

Air Date: 1987-02-12

Uneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.

17. A Cabinet of Curiosities

Air Date: 1987-02-19

Lucinda Lambton reveals strange and amusing tales from the dusty corners of museums.

18. Bad Blood

Air Date: 1987-02-26

The annual re-union of thousands of bikers in South Dakota.

19. Fire!

Air Date: 1987-03-05

Kingston-upon-Hull (Yorks.) fire station in action.

20. The Quest for Sergeant Miller

Air Date: 1987-03-12

The son of a wartime aviator traces his father's remarkable survival and escape in France.

21. House of Spirits

Air Date: 1987-03-19

Spiritualists in London's Belgravia communing with "the other side".

22. A New Girl

Air Date: 1987-03-26

Moral problems facing a mother who has taken a pregnancy drug and whose child has suffered.

23. Fly Me

Air Date: 1987-04-02

The training of British Airways hostesses and cabin crew.

24. The Mighty Leek

Air Date: 1987-04-09

World championship competitive leek-growing in the North-East of England - with dirty deeds in the greenhouses.

25. Troublesome People

Air Date: 1987-04-16

Caroline Moorehead inquires if pacifists have ever achieved anything over the years.

26. Street Girls

Air Date: 1987-04-23

Child and juvenile prostitutes in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

27. Bombay Hotel

Air Date: 1987-04-30

Upstairs and downstairs at the famous Taj Mahal Hotel - a luxurious establishment surrounded by poverty.

1. Terror

Air Date: 1987-11-05

How three people's lives were permanently affected by the TWA plane hi-jack.

2. Girls Apart

Air Date: 1987-11-12

Two South African school-girls, one black, one white - their contrasting attitudes and lives.

3. Love at First Sight

Air Date: 1987-11-19

Five couples describe what happened when they first met - and the long-term consequences.

4. Poor Man's Eton

Air Date: 1987-11-26

The only inner London Education Authority boarding school, in a Suffolk country house.

5. East Side Story

Air Date: 1987-12-03

Two contrasting 26-year-olds in London's newly-developing Docklands.

6. The Case of Sherlock Holmes

Air Date: 1987-12-10

Tim Piggot-Smith investigates the famous sleuth of 221b Baker Street.

7. Party Time

Air Date: 1987-12-17

Seven entertaining parties.

8. Catch a Fallen Star

Air Date: 1987-12-23

A portrait of the once-famous British singer, dancer and film star, Jesse Matthews.

9. Convictions

Air Date: 1988-01-07

10. If You Love Him, Let Him Go

Air Date: 1988-01-14

Dilemmas faced by parents of mentally handicapped offspring who reach childhood and independence.

11. Jackpot

Air Date: 1988-01-21

Three young adults addicted to gambling on fruit machines, with disastrous results.

12. Scarfe's Follies

Air Date: 1988-01-28

Scarfe's Follies with Bob Geldof, Jane Asher, Terry Jones, Ian McKellen, Robin Bailey, Julian Glover, Marcia Warren, John Bird, John Challis, John Watts, Nellie the elephant and Ivy the camel. Gerald Scarfe records the follies of man in his cartoons. Now he wants to create his own folly. But what are follies - and why did eccentrics build them? Surrounded by high-kicking follies girls and borne by noble beasts, Scarfe sets off on a quest of discovery. He encounters a naughty vicar who built a folly garden for his gypsy girlfriend; a Welshman who burned his own son; a politician who got voters drunk; a man whose house resembles a jungle; and 'Mad Jack' Fuller, who built a steeple overnight to win a wager, and was buried in a pyramid with a bottle of port and a cold chicken. And as all the best follies contained a resident hermit, Scarfe advertises for one in the Times - with startling results.

13. Thames Wallah

Air Date: 1988-02-04

A specialist with the Thames Water Authority attempts to clean up the Ganges.

14. Changing Places

Air Date: 1988-02-11

Ten pupils from an independent public school (Rugby) and a state comprehensive school (Ruffwood) exchange places and lives.

15. Diary of a Frontliner

Air Date: 1988-02-18

A self-operated video camera was set up in Peter Tilson's home to record a personal diary in his battle with AIDS.

16. Annie Doesn't Work Here Any More

Air Date: 1988-02-25

Annie, a nurse from Manchester, leaves the NHS to set up a new life as a nurse in Los Angeles.

17. The Great North Road

Air Date: 1988-03-03

Lucinda Lambton travels along the Great North Road, the backbone of Britain that links London to Edinburgh, discovering many weird and wonderful delights en route.

18. I, Alison...

Air Date: 1988-03-10

The story of a remarkable young woman. It's Alison French's wedding day. She's 24 - vivacious, candid, attractive, with a warm smile and a lively sense of humour. Alison, professionally qualified as a youth worker, is marrying Mark John. What makes her wedding different is that she's an athetoid spastic - her body's never still, and she has difficulty with her speech. Seven years ago, 40 Minutes made an acclaimed film about Alison, telling of her bid to gain independence in the able-bodied world. Tonight's follow-up is a passionate love story. But in marrying the man she loves, Alison has to leave her family in Watford, set up a new home in South Wales, and adapt to being a clergyman's wife. Her heart is still set on finding an independent job. The harsh reality is that despite her skills and rare qualities, she may face rejection. But Alison doesn't give up easily...

19. Children of the Open Road

Air Date: 1988-03-17

Catrine Clay presents the disturbing story of gypsy children abducted from their parents in clean and ordered Switzerland.

20. Five Go to Florida

Air Date: 1988-03-24

Perhaps the last holiday for a group of children, some of whom are gravely ill. They fulfil their dream of visiting Disney World.

21. Who Will Love Billy?

Air Date: 1988-04-07

A 13-year-old boy hopes to be adopted by Dave, a single man of 42 - but things go wrong.

22. Who Needs a Machine Gunner?

Air Date: 1988-04-14

Long-term unemployment in rural Herefordshire.

23. Women in Black

Air Date: 1988-04-21

Three widows at different stages of their recovery.

24. My African Farm

Air Date: 1988-04-28

An old white woman colonial settler staying on in up-country Kenya.

25. Separate Tables

Air Date: 1988-05-05

An old-fashioned sea-side hotel, with many retired residents, is to be refurbished. The residents must go.

26. Waiting

Air Date: 1988-05-12

Two people are waiting on an NHS hospital waiting list - one for a minor operation, the other for a major one.

27. Mixed Blessings

Air Date: 1988-05-19

The story of a mix-up in a Nottingham nursing-home. Margaret Wheeler and Blanche Rylatt each gave birth to a baby girl on the same day. Margaret is convinced that she was given the wrong baby.

1. Dolebusters

Air Date: 1988-10-20

The East Kent Dole Fraud team cracking down on "fiddlers and scroungers".

2. I Want to Live

Air Date: 1988-10-27

Kate Matthews extraordinary fight against cancer to survive, after learning that she has just 12 weeks to live.

3. The Gypsies Are Coming

Air Date: 1988-11-03

The impact of 2,500 gypsies and travellers on the sleepy market town of Appleby in Cumbria, which each June the travellers invade for the annual horse fair.

4. Desirable Dwellings

Air Date: 1988-11-10

Lucinda Lambton has photographed houses for 27 years. She conducts a personal and enthusiastic tour around her favourites - some of Britain's oddest, most individual and delightful homes. Lucinda's travels take her to a Hollywood hacienda in Derbyshire, created for a man who banished straight lines; a clairvoyant's bijou residence in the air; a Gothic castle now being built by a ruralist in deepest Cornwall; a haunted Victorian hotchpotch of a place north of the Humber, where the tiles don't match; and a circular confection of great charm in Devon, created by the Misses Parminter.

5. A Policewoman's Lot

Air Date: 1988-11-17

Out on patrol with the policewomen of the West Midlands Force, revealing the change in their role since the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act.

6. Making the Grade

Air Date: 1988-11-24

The inside story of the examinations of the Royal School of Music, following four musicians and their examiner through their rehearsals and preparation, and into the exam. room itself.

7. Greenfinches

Air Date: 1988-12-01

Three soldiers - all members of the Ulster Defence Regiment, all in the-front line of Northern Ireland's tense security troubles - and all three are women.

8. Jam Today

Air Date: 1988-12-08

Highlighting the desperation that debt can bring to people's lives.

9. To Have and to Hold

Air Date: 1989-01-05

Three women who have had to face the break-up of long and seemingly happy marriages, and to being single once again.

10. The Day I Met the Queen

Air Date: 1989-01-12

Memorable meetings between subjects and their monarch - revealing the special place the Queen holds in the hearts of her subjects.

11. The Kingdom of Fun

Air Date: 1989-01-19

The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.

12. Our Darren

Air Date: 1989-01-26

Darren Lillywhite was 17, mischievous and high-spirited. He and his mates were a lively lot, always getting into scrapes around the village of Cranleigh, where they grew up. Darren had owned his prized Vauxhall Astra for just a few weeks. One August evening in 1987 he drove it into a roundabout and was thrown from the car. Now he is paralysed from the neck down and can do nothing for himself. Darren has been at Stoke Mandeville Hospital for ten months, but his family is determined to get him back home. Terry and Marilyn Lillywhite have built a special extension to their house. If Darren makes it, his family, neighbours and friends will all be joining in the celebration. No one can help liking Darren. 'I don't feel bitter about it at all,' he says. 'It's like being born again, really....'

13. Jealousy

Air Date: 1989-02-02

The effects of jealousy on three victims.

14. Cairo Vets

Air Date: 1989-02-09

The Brooke Hospital for Animals in Cairo aims to provide the best veterinary care for the poorest section of the community.

15. I Like the Girls Who Do

Air Date: 1989-02-16

Celebrates the cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's hero, music-hall comedian Max Millar.

16. Knickerbockers in Knightsbridge

Air Date: 1989-02-23

The story of Hill House School and its unique headmaster, Colonel Stuart Townend.

17. Ghost Train

Air Date: 1989-03-02

A journey by Intercity into the world of the supernatural. Do you believe in ghosts? Helen McCormick does. She found an ancient crucifix in her cellar - and then saw a medieval monk walk past her kitchen window. Ambulanceman Ken Lobley rescued his aunt after a warning from an apparition. Nichola Thompson, aged 13, was reading, looked up, and saw her grandmother - wearing the pink shroud she'd been buried in two years earlier. Rev Jack Richardson investigates spooky Harnham Hall in Northumberland. He blesses the earthly remains of Kate Babington, who died a prisoner at Harnham in 1670. Eddie Burks, a 'clairsentient', is summoned to an RAF base to contact the ghost of an airman. Eerily, he describes how the man died and why he returns. And four nurses spend the night in 'the most haunted house in Britain' - with strange tales to tell the following morning....

18. Raging Belles

Air Date: 1989-03-09

The two top women's wrestlers in Britain fight for the most coveted prize, The British Ladies' Championship Belt

19. By Steam to Sennar Junction

Air Date: 1989-03-16

A dedicated engineer and tough businessman goes from South Wales to the Sudan to rehabilitate Sudan's decaying railways.

20. Wedding at Easington

Air Date: 1989-03-23

One in six in the old coal-mining district of Easington is out of work. Tom and Dawn are both unemployed and it is their wedding day. What does the future hold for them?

21. Violent

Air Date: 1989-03-30

Apparently unprovoked and irrational acts of violence. Why do they happen? What are the effects on the victims?

22. Catwalk

Air Date: 1989-04-06

It's said that 2,000 dogs and 4,000 cats are destroyed in Britain every day. Celia Hammond was a top fashion model. Now she's so furious about the destruction of healthy animals that she's given up her career, even her personal life, to rescue as many strays as she can. She prowls the wastelands and alleyways of London to save frightened, injured and lost cats. Her ultimate aim is to set up her own low-cost spaying and neutering clinics.

23. Two Sides of a Street

Air Date: 1989-04-20

A real life soap opera is unfolding in Cardross Street, West London. A Royal Ballet star, a man who owns a share in a race horse, and a peer's daughter now live side by side with old folk who have rented their houses all their lives. Once the street was filled with families. Now it's being taken over and tarted up by the young rich with no children. 'Funeral today - skip tomorrow' is how the locals describe what's happening. Had they been able to afford it, the old timers could have bought their homes for £200. Now unmodernised two-up two-downs with outside loos are snapped up at £150,000. 'For the old people the street is a way of life,' says the Hon Henrietta Roper-Curzon . 'For us it is just a transitory thing. When they leave it's in a hearse. We leave in the removal van'. With John Pitman.

24. Inside Broadmoor

Air Date: 1989-04-27

The famous high-security hospital and a new therapeutic regime.

25. Laid Off

Air Date: 1989-05-04

Following two people, one in the North and one in the South of England, from the time they are made redundant through three months of job-hunting.

26. London Lighthouse

Air Date: 1989-05-11

An insight into the first few months of Britain's first purpose-built AIDS hospice. London Lighthouse is an experiment. The building is striking. The approach to nursing is radical. The project could provide a model for the health care of the future. Beatty King, 26, is one of 15 nurses working at Lighthouse. On night shift, she spends the small hours gently negotiating with Colin, who's desperate to smoke, and sitting with Christopher, who is close to death. The patients appreciate having as much say as possible in how they are looked after. But as relationships develop, emotional pressures increase. Beatty admits, 'I don't think I realised what I was letting myself in for....'.

27. Who'll Win Jeanette?

Air Date: 1989-05-18

A young American travels from Tampa to Vermont, inspecting the parents who want to adopt her unborn child - and finally makes her choice.

1. Danger Men

Air Date: 1989-10-19

Ten of the most dangerous and disruptive men in the prison system have been brought together in an experimental unit at Hull Jail. A new softly-softly regime is being tested on inmates like Fred Low, who is serving three life sentences - one for killing a fellow prisoner - and Patrick Mackay, serving five life sentences for manslaughter and robbery. 40 Minutes gained access to the unit as the prisoners started to reveal themselves to the hand-picked staff, and as conflicts began. The most serious clash was over the only woman working full time in the unit, and it involved David McAllister, serving 19 years for armed robbery and assault, who later escaped from the unit and was on the run for five days. This film tells the story of the most controversial unit in our prisons.

2. Me and My Bike

Air Date: 1989-10-26

A eulogy to the joy of cycling.

3. Crack Doctors

Air Date: 1989-11-02

4. City Parish

Air Date: 1989-11-09

5. Best Friends

Air Date: 1989-11-16

6. The Heart of the Angel

Air Date: 1989-11-23

This film documents one day in the life of Angel station on the Northern Line of the London Underground in the days before its refurbishment. We see the ticket collectors, station manager and other staff as they cope with angry passengers, lift failures and cancelled trains.

7. Bullies

Air Date: 1989-11-30

At least one in every five children in Britain suffer from bullying. In our schools the problem is worse than anywhere else in Europe. 40 Minutes reveals what's really going on in the playground.

8. Out of the Ruins

Air Date: 1989-12-07

9. All About Ambridge

Air Date: 1989-12-14

10. Stage Struck

Air Date: 1990-01-04

11. A Place for Tom

Air Date: 1990-01-11

12. Darling, Let's Start Up an Airline

Air Date: 1990-01-18

13. He's Playing Our Song

Air Date: 1990-01-25

14. Hilary's in Hiding

Air Date: 1990-02-01

15. S.A. Blues

Air Date: 1990-02-15

16. Adventures in the Skin Trade

Air Date: 1990-02-22

John Pitman meets a selection of women to ascertain their views on the wearing of coats made of fur.

17. A Safe Sex for a Safe Seat

Air Date: 1990-03-01

18. Green Police

Air Date: 1990-03-08

In New Jersey, USA, a team of cops and scientists is 'busting' polluters. For the first time a film crew has been given total access to their operations. 40 Minutes follows the trail - the surveillance. the 'sting', the raid. Whether it's one small operator dumping chemicals on the street or the president of a multi-million-dollar company caught polluting a river - both are likely to face serious criminal charges. In New Jersey, they believe only tough action will deter dumpers. Is there a lesson for us in Britain?

19. The Burny Mob Go Wild

Air Date: 1990-03-15

20. Many Happy Returns!

Air Date: 1990-03-22

Two children who feel sure they died terrible deaths and have been born again tell their extraordinary stories. Nicola, aged 12, lives in Keighley, Yorkshire, near to the railway tracks where she played in the 19th century in another life. Then, she says, she was a boy. Parish records suggest that it isn't just a childhood fantasy. Titu, aged 6, lives in north India in the shadow of the Taj Mahal. His is a violent story. He alleges he was gunned down by a murderer. Another vivid imagination? The radio shop he ran still exists, and his widow is still alive. When he mentions buried gold, it seems to jog her memory...

21. Tracey's Search

Air Date: 1990-03-29

22. How Could She?

Air Date: 1990-04-05

23. Mac to the U.S.S.R.

Air Date: 1990-04-12

24. Killer Bimbos on Fleet Street

Air Date: 1990-04-19

25. Karl's Kidney - For Sale

Air Date: 1990-04-26

26. A View from a Bridge

Air Date: 1990-05-03

1. The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior

Air Date: 1990-10-25

2. Fit to Drop

Air Date: 1990-11-01

3. It's Eileen

Air Date: 1990-11-08

4. A Summer in the Country

Air Date: 1990-11-15

5. Battleship Beach

Air Date: 1990-11-22

6. Brief Encounters

Air Date: 1990-11-29

7. Malika's Hotel

Air Date: 1990-12-06

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. Chocolate!

Air Date: 1990-12-20

9. Whatever Happened to Susi?

Air Date: 1991-01-03

10. Clever Trevor

Air Date: 1991-01-10

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. Around Midnight

Air Date: 1991-01-24

12. Where There's Hope

Air Date: 1991-01-31

13. The Prisoner

Air Date: 1991-02-07

14. Welcome to Surbiton

Air Date: 1991-02-14

15. A Cruel Ritual

Air Date: 1991-02-21

'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. Children of the Fire

Air Date: 1991-02-28

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. The Big Game

Air Date: 1991-03-07

18. Our Brilliant Careers

Air Date: 1991-03-14

19. Battered Men

Air Date: 1991-03-21

20. The Entertainers

Air Date: 1991-03-28

21. Video Vultures

Air Date: 1991-04-04

22. Beyond the Crystal Ball

Air Date: 1991-04-11

23. Suburbs in the Sky

Air Date: 1991-04-18

24. Fly Me to Dunoon

Air Date: 1991-04-25

1. Alec the Pole

Air Date: 1991-10-17

For 47 years Alec Krawczynski has lived in Scotland. He is known as Alec the Pole. But his real name is not Krawczynski and he has never been to Poland. He came from the Ukraine and for nearly 50 years has kept a deadly secret. Now, as the Ukraine reaches out for independence, he discovers members of his family are still alive. He returns to the Ukraine to discover if his country and family are ready to forgive him for being, in his own words, a traitor.

2. Short, Sharp and Shocking

Air Date: 1991-10-24

3. Autogeddon

Air Date: 1991-10-31

4. Anyone for Tennis?

Air Date: 1991-11-07

5. Berlin Lights

Air Date: 1991-11-14

6. Torn Apart

Air Date: 1991-11-21

A rape in the Irish village of Bray divides the community. Local man Gerry is sent to prison, separated from his wife Saundra and his children. But the rape victim is also isolated by her neighbours. "Nobody believed her. In Irish society it's all black and white, virgin or whore." Fifteen months later, Gerry's appeal draws near, raising new hopes in Saundra and old conflicts in the small world torn apart by the crime.

7. Windermere's Burning

Air Date: 1991-11-28

8. Heads on Beds

Air Date: 1991-12-12

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.

9. Boobs in Toyland

Air Date: 1991-12-19

10. When the Canaries Stop Singing

Air Date: 1992-01-14

11. Wild Men

Air Date: 1992-01-21

12. Charlotte and Abi

Air Date: 1992-01-28

13. Cowboys in the South Pacific

Air Date: 1992-02-11

An adventure story by international Emmy award-winning film-maker Nigel Evans. Into the jungles of a small Pacific island, Dr Danforth Artie Bookout leads his team of intrepid Texans to search for an aircraft and the body of Weyland Bennett, a "home-town boy" missing in action 50 years ago. Deep in the bush sits Chief Jean Marc waiting for his Texan pay packet to lumber into view. And two days' walk behind the Texan strides a local explorer who knows the secrets of Dr Dan's past.

14. She Married a Lifer

Air Date: 1992-02-18

15. Miami Wild

Air Date: 1992-02-25

Capturing escaped pythons, confiscating pet cougars or wrestling with exotic crocodiles - it's all in a day's work for Miami specialist police officer Lieutenant Kat Kelley. The locals are crazy about owning flamboyant pets and many of these exotic animals have escaped and multiplied over the years, threatening both people and native wildlife. Kelley is on call 24 hours a day and never knows what she will have to face. "We're fighting a losing battle here. Basically, nature is out of control."

16. Elvis in Jarrow

Air Date: 1992-03-03

17. So Much to Lose

Air Date: 1992-03-17

At 34, 5ft 2ins tall and weighing 16 stone, Annette is desperate to lose weight. She has been told the only permanent solution is a stomach stapling operation. The surgeon says that with a specially adapted staple gun he can reduce the size of Annette's stomach to the length of a teaspoon. And that would mean she would only ever be able to eat tiny portions of food. Unable to bear her fat any longer, and with a family history of diabetes and heart disease, Annette feels she has nothing to lose. Meanwhile her friend Kath, who reduced from 19 to seven stone after her operation, is now back to a size 22 and about to enter hospital for a fourth operation.

18. Farewell, Fab 208

Air Date: 1992-03-24

The story of Radio Luxembourg, from its inception until 30 December 1991; the last day of broadcasting on 208 metres. Features interviews and appearances by many of its DJs

19. Soldier's Diary

Air Date: 1992-03-31

20. Get Out!

Air Date: 1992-04-07

21. Not at Their Age

Air Date: 1992-04-14

22. A Child for Hitler

Air Date: 1992-04-21

23. Dear Mr. Pink

Air Date: 1992-04-28

24. Weather

Air Date: 1992-05-09

1. Sanctuary

Air Date: 1993-02-16

2. I Won't... I Can't

Air Date: 1993-02-23

3. Away the Lads

Air Date: 1993-03-02

4. Mart and Mandy

Air Date: 1993-03-09

What has happened to Essex Man in the 90's? Martin Smith and his girlfriend Mandy epitomise many young people whose champagne lifestyle has suffered in the recession-hit 90's. How do they feel about the country now?

5. Will They Ring Tonight?

Air Date: 1993-03-16

6. A Change of Heart

Air Date: 1993-03-23

7. The Lady Killers

Air Date: 1993-03-30

8. Limehouse Doctor

Air Date: 1993-04-06

9. The Agony of the Ecstasy - 100 Years of Sex Advice

Air Date: 1993-04-13

10. Hostage

Air Date: 1993-04-20

11. The Importance of Being Ernie

Air Date: 1993-04-27

12. Ladies in Lines

Air Date: 1993-05-04

13. Three Big Men

Air Date: 1993-05-11

14. Rape

Air Date: 1993-05-18

15. Prisoner HC3970

Air Date: 1993-05-25

1. Shattered Dreams

Air Date: 1993-11-16

2. War Artist

Air Date: 1993-11-23

3. Girl Friends

Air Date: 1993-11-30

4. Police Surgeon

Air Date: 1993-12-07

5. Moscow Gold

Air Date: 1993-12-14

6. Latin Nights

Air Date: 1993-12-21

7. The Making of Them

Air Date: 1994-01-04

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. Caraline's Story

Air Date: 1994-01-11

9. Heads and Tales

Air Date: 1994-01-18

10. Behind the Mask

Air Date: 1994-01-25

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. Squeegies

Air Date: 1994-02-01

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. Spent Forces

Air Date: 1994-02-08

13. Why Blame the Mother?

Air Date: 1994-02-22

14. Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis

Air Date: 1994-03-01

15. Manila - The Real Thing

Air Date: 1994-03-08

16. A Case of Corporate Murder

Air Date: 1994-03-15

17. After the Bomb

Air Date: 1994-03-22

18. Wonderful Land

Air Date: 1994-03-29

19. Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur

Air Date: 1994-04-05

20. Living in a Boom Time

Air Date: 1994-04-12

21. Times Remembered

Air Date: 1994-04-19