WHENEVER the bus slows down in the traffic along the Strand, I always ask visitors to look through a gap between the rows of buildings, to that rooftop in the distance and the distinct pillars of what used to be the fruit and vegetable market of Covent Garden. It was the setting for Hitchcocks 1972 necktie murder thriller, Frenzy. More famously, it is also the setting of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, better known to the film set as My Fair Lady.
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