Later adapted into the musical ' My Fair Lady', George Bernard Shaw's comedy of manners was given its first big-screen outing in this 1938 production, which was nominated for four Oscars including Best Screenplay, which was awarded to Shaw. Snobbish Professor Higgins (Leslie Howard) has a wager with his friend Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland) that, with the right instruction, he can pass off cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) as a lady among high society. Taken under his wing, Eliza is given rigorous coaching in elocution & manners in preparation for the ultimate test: her appearance at an ambassador's reception. ...

You see this creature with her kerbstone English Well sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess So begins Henry Higgins' linguistic project to transform Eliza Dolittle's speech. But he hadn't bargained on Eliza's feisty character or falling in love with her ...

This digital recording of one of Shaw's most popular stories features Anton Lesser as Professor Higgins, Geoffrey Palmer as Colonel Pickering, & Lucy Whybrow as Eliza Doolittle. It features extended narrations setting the background & concluding the drama. ...

Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland (a mash-up of North Korea, Cuba, Communist-era China, & Nazi-era Germany), as an 'exchange student' into the welcoming arms of his Simpsons-spinoff Midwestern host family. ...

What would happen if a pygmy hippo came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat & how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first introduction to exotic animals & habitats around the world, & the importance of protecting them. ...

What would happen if a pygmy hippo came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat & how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first introduction to exotic animals & habitats around the world, & the importance of protecting them. ...

Toby Jones slips into a secret city right under his bungalow. Survivors of ancient Egypt had made their home underground, & have kept their civilisation intact over the millennia by keeping total secrecy about their existence. When Toby falls into their world, the Egyptians don't exactly welcome him
- but don't want him to get out alive either.
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