Pygmalion / Androcles and the Lion (1973)

Director: Cedric Messina

Starring: Lynn Redgrave, James Villiers, Ronald Fraser, Billy Connolly, Anna Calder-Marsha...

Perhaps Shaw's most well-known play, 'Pygmalion' stars Lynn Redgrave in the Eliza Doolittle role being taught her Ps & Qs by professor Henry Higgins.... Read more

The Millionairess (1972) / The Apple Cart (1975)

Director: William Slater, Cedric Messina

Starring: Maggie Smith, Tom Baker, Charles Gray, James Villiers, Helen Mirren, Prunella Sc...

George Bernard Shaw's brilliant farce on the true relationships between class, capital, power and labour stars Maggie Smith as Epifania, glamourous, c... Read more

Mrs Warren's Profession / You Never Can Tell (1972)

Director: James Cellan Jones

Starring: Coral Browne, Penelope Wilton, Robert Powell, Richard Pearson, James Grout, Dere...

Written in 1893, though not performed until 1902 due to government censorship 'Mrs Warren's Profession' scandalized Victorian England. This BBC produ... Read more

Heartbreak House (1977)

Director: Cedric Messina

Starring: John Gielgud, Sian Phillips, Barbara Murray, Daniel Massey, Lesley-Anne Down, Da...

Shaw's passionate response to World War I was this rollicking romp through the minefields of romantic entanglement. Captain Shotover (John Gielgud) i... Read more

Prehistoric Park (2006)

Starring: Nigel Marven

Back in prehistory the world was populated by some of the most amazing creatures that have ever existed. Today, 99% of those animals are extinct. But... Read more

The Good Life: Series 3 (1977)

Starring: Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington

The classic BBC comedy returns with Tom and Barbara continuing to lower the tone of their posh suburban neighbourhood. Includes six great episodes: '... Read more

Tsotsi (2005)

Director: Gavin Hood

Starring: Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, Kenneth Nkosi, Mothusi Magano, Zenzo Ngqobe, Z...

Tsotsi, (a slang word for 'thug'), is a Johannesberg delinquent whose life has been a series of abandonments and abuse, resulting in a young man alrea... Read more

Miss Marple: Murder, She Said / Murder at the Gallop / Murder Ahoy / Murder Most Foul (1961)

Director: George Pollock

Starring: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow

A collection of some of Margaret Rutherford's finest turns as the good lady detective: 'Murder, She Said' (1961) with Arthur Kennedy; 'Murder at the G... Read more

Europe's Secret Armies: The Mountain Men of Crete (2003)

Its geographical importance in both German and Allied planning for the domination of the Mediterranean and Africa was to prove Crete's downfall. As th... Read more

Asylum (2005)

Director: David Mackenzie

Starring: Natasha Richardson, Hugh Bonneville, Gus Lewis, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Mart...

Stella (Natasha Richardson) is the neglected wife of Max (Hugh Bonneville), the new Deputy Superintendent of a maximum security psych hospital on the... Read more