Artist(s): Gordon, Hannah
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Plays - Others
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA326812
Barcode: 9789626342688
Release Date: 02/2002

SHAW, G.B.: Pygmalion (Unabridged)

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. The first of a series of co-productions with Oneword Radio.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Shaw, George Bernard - Author
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
1 Covent Garden at 11.15 pm. Torrents of heavy summer rain. 02:26
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
2 THE FLOWER GIRL 'Nah then Freddy...' 02:15
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
3 THE NOTE TAKER 'There, there, there, there!' 07:19
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
4 Next day at 11 am. Higgins's laboratory in Wimpole Street. 07:20
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
5 HIGGINS 'I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.' 09:00
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
6 PICKERING 'Excuse the straight question, Higins.' 05:30
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
7 MRS PEARCE 'Doolittle, sir.' 03:55
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
8 HIGGINS 'Mrs Pearce: this is Eliza's father.' 11:39
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
9 HIGGINS 'Say your alphabet.' 02:31
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
10 Mrs Higgins's. It is between four and five in the afternoon. 07:06
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
11 MRS HIGGINS 'Will it rain, do you think?' 07:10
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
12 MRS HIGGINS 'Will it rain, do you think?' 05:27
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
Disc 2
1 The Wimpole Street laboratory. Midnight. 11:10
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
2 Mrs Higgins's drawing-room. The parlour-maid comes in. 02:12
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
3 THE PARLOUR-MAID 'Mr Doolittle.' 06:14
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
4 MRS HIGGINS 'Well, I'm very glad you're not going to do anything foolish,...' 04:05
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
5 THE PARLOUR-MAID 'You rang Ma'am' 05:36
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
6 DOOLITTLE 'Hello, Eliza!' 03:19
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
7 HIGGINS 'Well Eliza, you've had a bit of your own back...' 07:05
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
8 ELIZA 'I want a little kindness.' 06:57
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
Disc 3
1 The rest of the story need not be shown in action... 03:37
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
2 As our own instincts are not appealed to by her conclusion,... 04:00
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
3 And now, whow did Eliza marry? 05:43
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
4 It is true that Eliza's situation did not seem wholly ineligible. 04:10
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
5 It was the Colonel who finally solved the problem. 08:12
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
6 When Freddy paid a visit to Earls Court... 04:44
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
7 On the piteous spectacle of the pair spending their evenings... 04:13
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)
8 That is all. That is how it has turned out. 03:51
Burke, David (Reader)
Gordon, Hannah (actor)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux (Reader)
Whybrow, Lucy (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 02:36:46