Professional Foul (1977) clip 1

Clip from the beginning of Tom Stoppard's 'Professional Foul' TV play, from 1977. Starring Peter Barkworth, John Shrapnel and Stephen Rea. NB: Barkworth won a BAFTA for his performance.

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Entertainment

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• Stoppard
• Barkworth
• Professional
• Foul
• 1977
• play
• tv

[arampus]

Full version now here - search for Professional Foul Part 1, then Part 2 etc.

[Spectrescup]

@didio Durante BBC haters are very,very funny though.if they didn't keep the daily mail in business or vote for David Cameron we'd be a proper grown-up country,and that would never do.

[nortexoid]

@nimium1955 Stoppard wrote it, did he not?

[philipmcguinn]

to ninium 1955 - 10 months since you posted your query, and you may have the answer already. Written for tv by Tom Stoppard, the greatest living playwright in the english language. Never released on dvd or video - probably because it's not pro-left. Tom's politics are largely anti-communist and some of his stage plays tackle the evils of the regimes. The BBC don't like showing Professional Foul very often. That should tell you something about the BBC

[pfhyde]

Where can we see the rest? I can't even buy this on Amazon, apparently.

[komodoman]

Barkworth, one the best.

[nimium1955]

I don't remember Bernard Hill in this at all. Was he good?

[nimium1955]

I loved this play when I saw it in the late 70s. My reaction was WHO WROTE THIS??? Will you post more or tell me where to find a copy?

Thank you for making this available.

[britishairborne]

Peter Barkworth was my Grandfathers brother.