Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories – but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady. But much of the charm and wit comes from the words and timing in Shaw’s original play. Here are the characters of Professor Higgins, his friend Colonel Pickering, and their charge, Eliza Doolittle. Directed by John Tydeman, this delightful comedy is presented in its original play version, with the extended narrations setting the background and concluding the drama – a device perfectly suited to Audiobook.
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| Track # | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Covent Garden at 11.15 pm. Torrents of heavy summer rain. | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 2:26 |
| 2 | THE FLOWER GIRL ‘Nah then Freddy…’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 2:15 |
| 3 | THE NOTE TAKER ‘There, there, there, there!’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 7:19 |
| 4 | Next day at 11 am. Higgins’s laboratory in Wimpole Street. | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 7:20 |
| 5 | HIGGINS ‘I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 9:00 |
| 6 | PICKERING ‘Excuse the straight question, Higgins.’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 5:30 |
| 7 | MRS PEARCE ‘Doolittle, sir.’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 3:55 |
| 8 | HIGGINS ‘Mrs Pearce: this is Eliza’s father.’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 11:39 |
| 9 | HIGGINS ‘Say your alphabet.’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 2:31 |
| 10 | Mrs Higgins’s. It is between four and five in the afternoon. | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 7:06 |
| 11 | MRS HIGGINS ‘Will it rain, do you think?’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 7:10 |
| 12 | HIGGINS ‘Well? Is Eliza presentable?’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 5:27 |
| 13 | The Wimpole Street laboratory. Midnight. | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 11:10 |
| 14 | Mrs Higgins’s drawing-room. The parlour-maid comes in. | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 2:12 |
| 15 | THE PARLOUR-MAID ‘Mr Doolittle.’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 6:14 |
| 16 | MRS HIGGINS ‘Well, I’m very glad you’re not going to do anything foolish,...’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 4:05 |
| 17 | THE PARLOUR-MAID ‘You rang Ma’am’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 5:36 |
| 18 | DOOLITTLE ‘Hello, Eliza!’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 3:19 |
| 19 | HIGGINS ‘Well Eliza, you’ve had a bit of your own back...’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 7:05 |
| 20 | ELIZA ‘I want a little kindness.’ | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 6:27 |
| 21 | The rest of the story need not be shown in action,… | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 3:37 |
| 22 | As our own instincts are not appealed to by her conclusion,... | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 4:00 |
| 23 | And now, whom did Eliza marry? | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 5:43 |
| 24 | It is true that Eliza’s situation did not seem wholly ineligible. | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 4:10 |
| 25 | It was the Colonel who finally solved the problem | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 9:52 |
| 26 | When Freddy paid a visit to Earls Court... | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 4:44 |
| 27 | On the piteous spectacle of the pair spending their evenings... | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 4:13 |
| 28 | That is all. That is how it has turned out. | George Bernard Shaw, Full Cast | 3:51 |
