Stand Up Nigel Barton

Semiautobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter from the BBCs Wednesday Play series It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University The villagers accuse him of snobbery while the rich University students treat him like a peasant Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father and also succeed at University despite its pretentions which apall him