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This episode coming from the University of East Anglia, The 3rd Degree is a funny, upbeat and brainy quiz show.

The specialist subjects this week are Physics, Biological Studies and History, so we’ll find out the relevance to each of those subjects of a sombrero, pishing and the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1853. Avocets, quangos, muesli and Reginald Maudling all play a key role in the fun.

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