40 Minutes

Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil.

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

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

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

Life style of Quentin Crisp-esque 'Queen'.

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

The leading girls' public school.

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

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

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

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.

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

Interviews with three mistresses.

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

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

The religious cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

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

The maximum security unit at Maidstone Prison.

Gigolos and the different types.

About the medium Doris Stokes.

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

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

The history of lavatories.

Young male prostitutes in Manchester and Birmingham.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A eulogy to the joy of cycling.

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.

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.

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.

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?