40 Minutes

Roedean

The leading girls' public school.

Skinheads

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

Rabbits Don't Cry

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

An Emotional Matter

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

Lost in a Crowd

Problems of loneliness. Five people who are trying to find their own ways to deal with overcome loneliness are in a comp

The Cruelty Man

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

Miners

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

Mr. Moonlight

The life and career of Frankie Vaughan, the entertainer.

The Lads' Night Out

The charity dinner for the Stable Lads Welfare Trust.

How Do I Look?

Extreme slimming remedies including wiring jaws together and surgery.

Mister Perks

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

Package Tour

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

Something to Do with Video

The domestic and commercial uses of video including surveillance.

The Rovers

Tranmere Rovers FC, fighting for survival in their centenary season

Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother

Children who have to look after their elderly parents.

Freshers

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

English Lesson

Nine Polish seamen who sought political asylum in the Falklands where they were caught up in the war and their later sta

Female Circumcision

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

A Minor Incident at the Berlaymont

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

A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 1

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

A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 2

A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 3

A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 4

A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 5

A Gentle Way with Cancer: Part 6

Mistress

Interviews with three mistresses.

Bodyline

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

Something for the Ladies

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

House of Love

The religious cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

Innocent Until Proved Guilty

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

Jail Within a Jail

The maximum security unit at Maidstone Prison.

Who's a Pretty Girl, Then?

Finding Miss Pears 1983.

Pranks

Professional pranksters and singing telegrams.

1984 Voices in a City

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

Health Farm

A week at a health farm.

Swiss Finishing School

Three English girls at Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Switzerland.

Divorce: Unreasonable Behaviour

The effect of a divorce on a couple and their children

Divorce: The Law... and After

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

The Mating Season

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

Skiffle

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

Pigeons: Queer Facts

Attitudes to pigeons.

Educating Michael

Working class children in assisted places at public schools.

Delmelza's Baby

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

A Problem with Sex

The work of the sex therapist.

The School on the Hill

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

Animal Antiques

Rare breeds of farm animals.

Travelling Hopefully

Professional political lobbyists.

Sun City

The African Las Vegas.

Bertie and the Bomb

Bertrand Russell and the founding of CND.

Oh Alien

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

Boycott

The career of cricketer Geoffrey Boycott.

Gigolo

Gigolos and the different types.

The Happy Medium

About the medium Doris Stokes.

The Grendon Experiment

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

Love in Exile

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

On the Throne

The history of lavatories.

Rent Boys

Young male prostitutes in Manchester and Birmingham.

Asylum

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

The Loved Ones

The Animal Medical Centre in New York.

The Promised Land

Britain forty years ago, contrasted with present day Britain.

Talking Proper

Accents and dialects provoke strong prejudices and reactions. In a 40 Minutes film that examines why this should be, bro

Sweet F.A.

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

The End of the Pier Show

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

The Outcasts

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

Love Story

A film for St Valentine's Day.

Free!

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

Whose House Is It Anyway?

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

The Eternal Triangle: The Mistress

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

The Eternal Triangle: The Wife

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

The Eternal Triangle: The Husband

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

Union Street

Plymouth, the area near the docks.

Whatever Happened to Baby Paul?

The story of a woman who took her baby to hospital where he was found to have several fractures. She denied having cause

Matters of Life and Death

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

Star Paws

Animals used in advertising.

Laughter in Gabrovo

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

Dear Mr President

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

In Between Days

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

50 Years On

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

Schoolgirl Mum

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

Johnny Oddball

10 years ago a famous documentary was made by Franc Roddam about "Mini" Cooper, a most attractive and intelligent child

Forget-Me-Not

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

Searching for a Miracle

A child with a genetic disease and his young parents go from Northern Ireland on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, in the French

Page 3 Girls

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

Keep Taking the Rose Petals

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

Animal Crackers

All over Britain are strange and delightful buildings with one thing in common - they were created for animals. Lucinda

Our Man in Shanghai

The Foreign Office opens a new mission in China. The film follows the new Consul-General during his first week in Shangh

A House of Hope

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

The Gift of Life

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

Flight from Vatersay

The Hebrides - idyllic isles of wild beauty, majestic, remote, peaceful? That's not how Neil Gillies, 23 years old and u

Stop the Wedding!

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

Student Nurse

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

Emergency - Bloomsbury 3

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

How to Find a Lover

The singles scene in Miami, Dallas and New York.

Cry for Home

'I'm British', says the young lady with strawberry blonde hair and a Midlands accent, 'but I don't have a drop of Britis

The Fishing Party

They are four friends, rich young men - city commodity-brokers, the drinks trade. They belong to the right clubs. They h

The Real Life of a Hollywood Wife

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

A Case of Malicious Wounding

A Yorkshire coal miner caught up in the bitter industrial warfare between strike pickets and police. The traumatic event

Come Home Julie

A young black girl, once fostered by a Scottish family, then snatched back to Ghana, returns to her foster parents - wit

Nuts!

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

Countdown to Today

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

The Last Day

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

A Passage to Wisbech

Carrick is a dirty British coaster - a 30-year-old tramp carrying unglamorous cargoes from port to port in the Channel a

Ten Days in Holloway

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

Dancing in the Rain

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

Rescue

The lives of the men who make up the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team - a voluntary body of men who help those in difficult

Olga Goes to Hollywood

In 1978 David Lomax secretly interviewed a Russian couple in Moscow after they had been refused exit visas. They were fi

The Englishwoman's Wardrobe

Angela Huth asks why is it that as a nation, we have such a rotten reputation as dressers? What are we trying to say abo

Special: The Dump

Plans for dumping nuclear waste in rural Lincolnshire - and how traditionally conservative villagers were aroused to pro

Botham's Out

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

The Chosen Few

The Civil Service Selection Board has never been filmed before. The first of two programmes concentrates on two candidat

The Final Board

The second film tells of two hopefuls at the last round, one hoping to enter the Foreign Office, the other aiming for th

Dear Sister

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

Just for William

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

Short Stories

The small world of dwarves and midgets.

Home from the Hill

Documentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook r

Struggle for Stonebridge

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

Stirring Stuff

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

Do You Still Love Me?

Uneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.

A Cabinet of Curiosities

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

Bad Blood

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

Fire!

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

The Quest for Sergeant Miller

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

House of Spirits

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

A New Girl

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

Fly Me

The training of British Airways hostesses and cabin crew.

The Mighty Leek

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

Troublesome People

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

Street Girls

Child and juvenile prostitutes in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

Bombay Hotel

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

Terror

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

Girls Apart

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

Love at First Sight

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

Poor Man's Eton

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

East Side Story

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

The Case of Sherlock Holmes

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

Party Time

Seven entertaining parties.

Catch a Fallen Star

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

Convictions

If You Love Him, Let Him Go

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

Jackpot

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

Scarfe's Follies

Scarfe's Follies with Bob Geldof, Jane Asher, Terry Jones, Ian McKellen, Robin Bailey, Julian Glover, Marcia Warren, Joh

Thames Wallah

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

Changing Places

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

Diary of a Frontliner

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

Annie Doesn't Work Here Any More

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

The Great North Road

Lucinda Lambton travels along the Great North Road, the backbone of Britain that links London to Edinburgh, discovering

I, Alison...

The story of a remarkable young woman. It's Alison French's wedding day. She's 24 - vivacious, candid, attractive, with

Children of the Open Road

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

Five Go to Florida

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

Who Will Love Billy?

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

Who Needs a Machine Gunner?

Long-term unemployment in rural Herefordshire.

Women in Black

Three widows at different stages of their recovery.

My African Farm

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

Separate Tables

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

Waiting

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

Mixed Blessings

The story of a mix-up in a Nottingham nursing-home. Margaret Wheeler and Blanche Rylatt each gave birth to a baby girl o

Dolebusters

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

I Want to Live

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

The Gypsies Are Coming

The impact of 2,500 gypsies and travellers on the sleepy market town of Appleby in Cumbria, which each June the travelle

Desirable Dwellings

Lucinda Lambton has photographed houses for 27 years. She conducts a personal and enthusiastic tour around her favourite

A Policewoman's Lot

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

Making the Grade

The inside story of the examinations of the Royal School of Music, following four musicians and their examiner through t

Greenfinches

Three soldiers - all members of the Ulster Defence Regiment, all in the-front line of Northern Ireland's tense security

Jam Today

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

To Have and to Hold

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

The Day I Met the Queen

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

The Kingdom of Fun

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

Our Darren

Darren Lillywhite was 17, mischievous and high-spirited. He and his mates were a lively lot, always getting into scrapes

Jealousy

The effects of jealousy on three victims.

Cairo Vets

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

I Like the Girls Who Do

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

Knickerbockers in Knightsbridge

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

Ghost Train

A journey by Intercity into the world of the supernatural. Do you believe in ghosts? Helen McCormick does. She found an

Raging Belles

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

By Steam to Sennar Junction

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

Wedding at Easington

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

Violent

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

Catwalk

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

Two Sides of a Street

A real life soap opera is unfolding in Cardross Street, West London. A Royal Ballet star, a man who owns a share in a ra

Inside Broadmoor

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

Laid Off

Following two people, one in the North and one in the South of England, from the time they are made redundant through th

London Lighthouse

An insight into the first few months of Britain's first purpose-built AIDS hospice. London Lighthouse is an experiment.

Who'll Win Jeanette?

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

Danger Men

Ten of the most dangerous and disruptive men in the prison system have been brought together in an experimental unit at

Me and My Bike

A eulogy to the joy of cycling.

Crack Doctors

City Parish

Best Friends

The Heart of the Angel

This film documents one day in the life of Angel station on the Northern Line of the London Underground in the days befo

Bullies

At least one in every five children in Britain suffer from bullying. In our schools the problem is worse than anywhere e

Out of the Ruins

All About Ambridge

Stage Struck

A Place for Tom

Darling, Let's Start Up an Airline

He's Playing Our Song

Hilary's in Hiding

S.A. Blues

Adventures in the Skin Trade

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

A Safe Sex for a Safe Seat

Green Police

In New Jersey, USA, a team of cops and scientists is 'busting' polluters. For the first time a film crew has been given

The Burny Mob Go Wild

Many Happy Returns!

Two children who feel sure they died terrible deaths and have been born again tell their extraordinary stories. Nicola,

Tracey's Search

How Could She?

Mac to the U.S.S.R.

Killer Bimbos on Fleet Street

Karl's Kidney - For Sale

A View from a Bridge

The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior

Fit to Drop

It's Eileen

A Summer in the Country

Battleship Beach

Brief Encounters

Malika's Hotel

Malika Shawa is an old girl of Cheltenham Ladies College. She's also a Palestinian aristocrat, who owns the only hotel i

Chocolate!

Whatever Happened to Susi?

Clever Trevor

The BBC 40 Mins documentary team follow Trevor Smith, owner of Trevor Smith's Animal World, a company that supplies anim

Around Midnight

Where There's Hope

The Prisoner

Welcome to Surbiton

A Cruel Ritual

'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, be

Children of the Fire

Five young Russian survivors of the Soviet Union's worst rail disaster arrive in Manchester for medical treatment. Badly

The Big Game

Our Brilliant Careers

Battered Men

The Entertainers

Video Vultures

Beyond the Crystal Ball

Suburbs in the Sky

Fly Me to Dunoon

Alec the Pole

For 47 years Alec Krawczynski has lived in Scotland. He is known as Alec the Pole. But his real name is not Krawczynski

Short, Sharp and Shocking

Autogeddon

Anyone for Tennis?

Berlin Lights

Torn Apart

A rape in the Irish village of Bray divides the community. Local man Gerry is sent to prison, separated from his wife Sa

Windermere's Burning

Heads on Beds

During the property boom, big profits could be made buying and selling London hotels used by councils to house the homel

Boobs in Toyland

When the Canaries Stop Singing

Wild Men

Charlotte and Abi

Cowboys in the South Pacific

An adventure story by international Emmy award-winning film-maker Nigel Evans. Into the jungles of a small Pacific islan

She Married a Lifer

Miami Wild

Capturing escaped pythons, confiscating pet cougars or wrestling with exotic crocodiles - it's all in a day's work for M

Elvis in Jarrow

So Much to Lose

At 34, 5ft 2ins tall and weighing 16 stone, Annette is desperate to lose weight. She has been told the only permanent so

Farewell, Fab 208

The story of Radio Luxembourg, from its inception until 30 December 1991; the last day of broadcasting on 208 metres. Fe

Soldier's Diary

Get Out!

Not at Their Age

A Child for Hitler

Dear Mr. Pink

Weather

Sanctuary

I Won't... I Can't

Away the Lads

Mart and Mandy

What has happened to Essex Man in the 90's? Martin Smith and his girlfriend Mandy epitomise many young people whose cham

Will They Ring Tonight?

A Change of Heart

The Lady Killers

Limehouse Doctor

The Agony of the Ecstasy - 100 Years of Sex Advice

Hostage

The Importance of Being Ernie

Ladies in Lines

Three Big Men

Rape

Prisoner HC3970

Shattered Dreams

War Artist

Girl Friends

Police Surgeon

Moscow Gold

Latin Nights

The Making of Them

Independence, self-reliance, confidence. These are some of the qualities that the traditional single-sex English boardin

Caraline's Story

Heads and Tales

Behind the Mask

This film looks at a theatre group who specialise in prison remedial work. By turning hardened criminals into actors, th

Squeegies

The engaging lives and intimate stories of Squeegies - people who wash car windows at traffic lights for small change -

Spent Forces

Why Blame the Mother?

Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis

Manila - The Real Thing

A Case of Corporate Murder

After the Bomb

Wonderful Land

Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur

Living in a Boom Time

Times Remembered