40 Minutes

{{Short description|British TV series (1981–1994)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox television | image = BBC-Forty-Minutes-Logo.jpg | alt = Strand logo | caption = Strand logo | alt_name = | genre = Documentary | creator = | developer = | writer = | director = | creative_director = | presenter = | starring = | judges = | voices = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = | country = | language = | num_seasons =  | num_episodes = | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = | editor = | location = | cinematography = | camera = | runtime = | company = | network = | first_aired = {{Start date|1981}} | last_aired = {{End date|1994}} | related = }}

'''''40 Minutes''''' was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BFI {{!}} Film & TV Database {{!}} 40 MINUTES |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/7860 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116214627/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/7860 |archive-date=2009-01-16 |access-date=2026-05-21 |website=ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |language=en}}</ref>

Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, ''Forty Minutes On''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Four - Forty Minutes On |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lbnhh |access-date=2026-05-21 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==See also== * ''Sixty Minutes''

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Category:BBC television documentaries Category:1981 British television series debuts Category:1994 British television series endings Category:1980s British documentary television series Category:1990s British documentary television series Category:English-language British television shows