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October 25, 1990

Season 10

01. The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior

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40min
October 25, 1990

02. Fit to Drop

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40min
November 1, 1990

03. It's Eileen

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40min
November 8, 1990

04. A Summer in the Country

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40min
November 15, 1990

05. Battleship Beach

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40min
November 22, 1990

06. Brief Encounters

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40min
November 29, 1990

07. Malika's Hotel

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'.

40min
December 6, 1990

08. Chocolate!

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40min
December 20, 1990

09. Whatever Happened to Susi?

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40min
January 3, 1991

10. Clever Trevor

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.

40min
January 10, 1991

11. Around Midnight

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40min
January 24, 1991

12. Where There's Hope

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40min
January 31, 1991

13. The Prisoner

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40min
February 7, 1991

14. Welcome to Surbiton

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40min
February 14, 1991

15. 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, 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.

40min
February 21, 1991

16. Children of the Fire

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.

40min
February 28, 1991

17. The Big Game

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40min
March 7, 1991

18. Our Brilliant Careers

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40min
March 14, 1991

19. Battered Men

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40min
March 21, 1991

20. The Entertainers

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40min
March 28, 1991

21. Video Vultures

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40min
April 4, 1991

22. Beyond the Crystal Ball

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40min
April 11, 1991

23. Suburbs in the Sky

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40min
April 18, 1991

24. Fly Me to Dunoon

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40min
April 25, 1991