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This episode coming from Loughborough University, The 3rd Degree is a funny, upbeat and brainy quiz show.

The specialist subjects this week are Construction Management, Maths and Sport & Society with Sport Exercise & Psychology, so you’ll discover how to luff a jib, deconstruct a dodecagon and demonstrate a quadruped superman. All this plus darts and D’Urbervilles too.

The show is recorded on location at a different University each week, and pits three undergraduates against three of their professors in this fresh take on an academic quiz. The general knowledge rounds include a quickfire bell-and-buzzer finale and the Highbrow & Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the students’ knowledge of history, art, literature and politics, but also their Professors’ awareness of TV, music and sport. Meanwhile there are the three specialist subject rounds, in which students take on their professors in their own subjects, and where we find out whether the students have actually been awake during lectures.

In this series, the show goes to Leicester, St Andrews, Loughborough, Falmouth, the University of East Anglia and Robinson College, Cambridge.

Producer: David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4