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The Monday Play: Professional Foul

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard's award-winning television play, specially adapted for radio by the author.

Professor Anderson is a football-loving English philosopher on a visit to Prague to attend a conference on ethics. Anderson admits to being 'a tiny bit naughty' for he hopes to play truant one afternoon and watch a football international between England and Czechoslovakia. But when a former student of the professor's asks him to smuggle a thesis on freedom back to England, Anderson faced with a real ethical dilemma
A BBC World Service - Drama production
Preview: page 21

Contributors

Writer/Adapted by:
Tom Stoppard
Czech Translation:
Jiri Nossek
Director:
Gordon House
Professor Anderson:
Peter Barkworth
Bill McKendrick:
John Shrapnel
Pavel Hollar:
Nigel Anthony
Chetwyn:
Andrew Branch
Stone:
Christopher Muncke
Chairman:
Ivan Jelinek
Mrs Hollar:
Susan Strawson
Sapha:
Stefan Ceba
Captain:
George Pravda
First man:
Arnost Kopecky
Second man:
Milos Kirek
Crisp/Frenchman:
John Bull
Broadbent:
Bill Monks
Chamberlain Customs man:
Manning Wilson
Passenger/Grayston:
Adrian Egan
Stewardess:
Brenda Kaye
Airport announcer:
Jarmila Lederer
Football commentator:
Jiri Nosek
Source: Radio Times

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