Forty Minutes ...of documentary. A series of films portraying issues, institutions and individuals.

Roedean is Britain's most famous public school for girls. It is exclusive, expensive and draughty. Sited on a bleak outcrop of the South Downs, it looks down with a faint disapproval on nearby racy Brighton. But Roedean made a self-inflicted dent on its public image when it appointed a headmaster, having allowed the first male teacher in the classroom just over ten years before.
The Roedean Ethos still lives on, however, and this film conveys what it feels like to be a school-girl there. Some of today's 400 Roedean girls make known their feelings on the pressures of the classroom and social life, of 'crushes' and friendships, of conformity and success.