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The 'B' Word

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Alistair McGowan writes and stars in a play about the scandalous first night of GB Shaw's Pygmalion, with Charlotte Page as his irrepressible leading lady, Mrs Patrick Campbell. Show more

Contributors

George Bernard Shaw:
Alistair McGowan
George Alexander:
David Sturzaker
Mrs Patrick Campbell:
Charlotte Page
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree:
Richard McCabe
Charlotte Shaw:
Georgie Glen
Merivale:
Philip Fox
Director:
Emma Harding

Genres

BBC Radio 4 LW

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