Cecil Lewis

Cranky Professor Henry Higgins takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle into a “proper lady” in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners.

George Bernard Shaw's tale of an English phonetics professor who turns a Cockney flower girl into a lovely lady. This precursor to 'My Fair Lady' was nominated for three major Academy Awards, including Best Picure!

Narrated by future Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, 'Figures in a Landscape' offers a poetic portrait of sculptor Barbara Hepworth and the otherworldly Cornwall landscapes that inspired her work. Priaulx Rainier's haunting score beautifully complements the extraordinary works of art, placed in the Cornish spaces that influenced them. Hepworth had been commissioned to design sculptures for the Festival of Britain two years before this film, and remains one of Britain's most celebrated sculptors - she was made a Dame in 1965.