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 ...

Pygmalion is one of Shaw's most accessible & entertaining plays; its characters-Professor Higgins & his pupil Eliza Doolittle have become household names. An authoritative student guide with a wealth of information to support exams & essays, written by leading Shaw scholar & advisor to the Shaw Estate, Len Connolly. ...

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. ...

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.
...

Is time an illusion? Do past, present, & future co-exist in a timeless whole, or are our experiences of change & duration the reality of time? This title draws on Einstein's " Theory of Relativity" to examine of the workings of narrative time in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, including " Against the Day". ...