40 Minutes

Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil.

The leading girls' public school.

Interviews with three mistresses.

Gigolos and the different types.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.