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My Fair Lady

Multi-Oscar-winning musical about a phonetics expert who, for a bet, tries to teach a Cockney flower girl to talk like a duchess. Starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.

Multi-Oscar-winning musical, based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, about a phonetics expert who, for a bet, takes on the challenge of teaching a Cockney flower girl to talk like a duchess. All the songs from the stage musical were retained, including The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced All Night, With a Little Bit of Luck and Wouldn't It Be Loverly.

2 hours, 45 minutes

Last on

Christmas Day 200810:00
BBC Two except Yorkshire

Credits

Professor Henry HigginsRex Harrison
DirectorGeorge Cukor
Eliza DoolittleAudrey Hepburn
Alfred DoolittleStanley Holloway
Colonel PickeringWilfrid Hyde-White
Mrs HigginsGladys Cooper
FreddieJeremy Brett
Zoltan KarpathyTheodore Bikel
Mrs PearseMona Washbourne
ActorIsobel Elsom

Broadcasts

  • Christmas Eve 200713:15
    BBC Two except East & Yorkshire
  • Sun 22 Jun 200815:00
    BBC One except Scotland
  • Christmas Day 200810:00
    BBC Two except East & Yorkshire