Girl Friday (TV programme)

Girl Friday
GenreTravel documentary
Directed byMichael Houldey
Presented byJoanna Lumley
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes1
Production
ProducerClive Tulloh
Running time60 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release26 November 1994 (1994-11-26)
Related
Billy Connolly: A Scot in the Arctic (1995)
Cast Away (2023–)
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Girl Friday is a 1994 BBC reality television special, starring Joanna Lumley in which she spends nine days on the desert island of Tsarabanjina near Madagascar. Lumley wrote an accompanying book, also called Girl Friday, which was published by BBC Books.

The title is based on the idiom derived from Friday, a character in Robinson Crusoe.