Season 10

1. The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior

1990-10-25 · 40m

2. Fit to Drop

1990-11-01 · 40m

3. It's Eileen

1990-11-08 · 40m

4. A Summer in the Country

1990-11-15 · 40m

5. Battleship Beach

1990-11-22 · 40m

6. Brief Encounters

1990-11-29 · 40m

7. Malika's Hotel

1990-12-06 · 40m

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!

1990-12-20 · 40m

9. Whatever Happened to Susi?

1991-01-03 · 40m

10. Clever Trevor

1991-01-10 · 40m

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

1991-01-24 · 40m

12. Where There's Hope

1991-01-31 · 40m

13. The Prisoner

1991-02-07 · 40m

14. Welcome to Surbiton

1991-02-14 · 40m

15. A Cruel Ritual

1991-02-21 · 40m

'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

1991-02-28 · 40m

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

1991-03-07 · 40m

18. Our Brilliant Careers

1991-03-14 · 40m

19. Battered Men

1991-03-21 · 40m

20. The Entertainers

1991-03-28 · 40m

21. Video Vultures

1991-04-04 · 40m

22. Beyond the Crystal Ball

1991-04-11 · 40m

23. Suburbs in the Sky

1991-04-18 · 40m

24. Fly Me to Dunoon

1991-04-25 · 40m