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40 Minutes

40 Minutes poster
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom

How it feels

This is a BBC documentary series that looked at different subjects. Each episode told a real story every 40 minutes. It first aired in the 1980s and 1990s, with some episodes later updated for a 2006 version.

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What happens

40 Minutes was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994. Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, Forty Minutes On. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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