Barry Joule

Appearances

In 2004, Joule appeared in the film Strange World of Barry Who?, directed by Margy Kinmonth. Soon after it was shown on BBC4, professional art thieves broke into his distinctive 15th-century home in Normandy, France, and stole a Bacon Pope painting worth about £8 million. Joule says that he had told the programme makers not to film the outside of his house or the painting for reasons of security, as it was too expensive to insure.