Delightful, Oscar-winning musical based on George Bernard Shaw 's play Pygmalion, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, showing in a night of BBC Voices programmes on regional accents and dialects. Henry Higgins, a phonetics professor, bets his friend Colonel Pickering that he can coach a cockney flower girl to pass as a lady at any social function. The girl, Eliza Doolittle , initially scorns the idea, but later turns up at Higgins's house seeking tuition.

The moment we speak a judgement is made about our upbringing, education and class, and regional accents carry connotations about the speaker's friendliness, intelligence and sense of humour. This entertaining documentary looks at how we respond to the voices of public figures, from politicians and newsreaders to entertainers and pundits. Includes contributions from Michael Buerk , Brian Sewell , Patrick Moore and Marcus Bentley , aka the voice of Big Brother. New.

1/3. How the spoken
English language has evolved since the Second World War, beginning with a focus on the 1960s.

2/3. The spread of estuary
English in the 1970s and 80s.

3/3. How youth culture and technology have reinvented the contemporary lexicon.

The
Wicker Man: Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward and director Robin Hardy discuss the cult British horror film.
More on Monday at 11.35pm

1/2. With Mavis Staples , Kate Rusby , Karine Polwart and KT Tunstall