40 Minutes - Season 10

1. The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior

Aired: 10/25/1990

2. Fit to Drop

Aired: 11/1/1990

3. It's Eileen

Aired: 11/8/1990

4. A Summer in the Country

Aired: 11/15/1990

5. Battleship Beach

Aired: 11/22/1990

6. Brief Encounters

Aired: 11/29/1990

7. Malika's Hotel

Aired: 12/6/1990

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!

Aired: 12/20/1990

9. Whatever Happened to Susi?

Aired: 1/3/1991

10. Clever Trevor

Aired: 1/10/1991

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

Aired: 1/24/1991

12. Where There's Hope

Aired: 1/31/1991

13. The Prisoner

Aired: 2/7/1991

14. Welcome to Surbiton

Aired: 2/14/1991

15. A Cruel Ritual

Aired: 2/21/1991

'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

Aired: 2/28/1991

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

Aired: 3/7/1991

18. Our Brilliant Careers

Aired: 3/14/1991

19. Battered Men

Aired: 3/21/1991

20. The Entertainers

Aired: 3/28/1991

21. Video Vultures

Aired: 4/4/1991

22. Beyond the Crystal Ball

Aired: 4/11/1991

23. Suburbs in the Sky

Aired: 4/18/1991

24. Fly Me to Dunoon

Aired: 4/25/1991