Girl Friday is a 1994 BBC reality television special, starring Joanna Lumley in which she spends ten days on the desert island of Tsarabanjina near Madagascar.[1] Lumley wrote an accompanying book, also called Girl Friday, which was published by BBC Books.
Girl Friday | |
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Genre | Travel documentary |
Directed by | Michael Houldey |
Presented by | Joanna Lumley |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 1 |
Production | |
Producer | Clive Tulloh |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 26 November 1994 |
The title is based on the idiom derived from Friday, a character in Robinson Crusoe.
Tsarabanjina edit
The programme was filmed on the Malagasy island of Tsarabanjina, off the northwest coast of Madagascar. Uninhabited at the time of broadcast, the island has since been partially developed into a luxury resort.[2]
References edit
- ^ "Girl Friday". BBC. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ^ Pippa de Bruyn (4 August 2017). "Constance Tsarabanjina Hotel Review, Madagascar". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
External links edit
- Girl Friday at IMDb
- BBC Genome, archive of the original TV listing
- BBC Programme website
- Marriott, Edward, "What a Difference a Hotel Makes", Evening Standard, 25 May 2001