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On holiday in Portugal to take their daughter's mind off a troubled love affair, the Channing family is befriended by the hospitable Baronesa Narvao - but they soon find her hospitality something of an embarrassment.

When 19-year-old Samuel Sharpe roams the streets of DC after his father's funeral, he witnesses a bizarre confrontation and finds himself drawn into an underground group of vigilantes - the Weepers - who battle a ubiquitous evil called the Infra. These strange creatures hide in the infrared spectrum and latch onto their victims, devouring emotions and consuming minds. Sam needs the Weepers to give him purpose, but they need Sam to find the truth that even they can't see.

Simon Cadell stars as Henry Higgins with Imelda Staunton as Eliza Doolittle in this BBC Radio 4 production of Shaw’s famous play. When phonetics tutor and linguist Henry Higgins meets Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, he makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can teach her to speak so well that she will be able to pass herself off as a Duchess at a society ball.