About this programme

Live from London's Royal Albert Hall, the John Wilson Orchestra performs Lerner and Loewe's Broadway musical My Fair Lady. Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle takes speech lessons from Professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a well-born lady. Anthony Andrews as Higgins and Annalene Beechey as Doolittle lead an all-star cast in a production neatly fitting into the London theme running through this year's Proms. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Lerner and Loewe: My Fair Lady. Anthony Andrews (Prof Henry Higgins), Annalene Beechey (Eliza Doolittle), Alun Armstrong (Doolittle), James Fleet (Col Pickering), Sian Phillips (Mrs Higgins), Jenny Galloway (Mrs Pearce), Julian Ovenden (Freddie), John Wilson Orchestra, conductor John Wilson. Including at 8.20 Proms Plus Literary. Professor Roy Foster discusses George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the play that provided the inspiration for My Fair Lady. Presented by Matthew Sweet. Repeated on Tuesday 17th July at 2pm.