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The 3rd Degree: Series 8: Brunel University

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Students from Brunel University take on their lecturers in the upbeat quiz.

Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as students from Brunel University take on their professors. From July 2018.

A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this week from Brunel University.

With specialist subjects including Politics, Theatre and Computer Science and questions ranging from La Dame Aux Camelias and XOR gates to wardrobe malfunctions and Axl Rose.

The programme is recorded on location at a different University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an academic quiz.

The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both sides.

Other Universities featured in this series include Merton College Oxford, Dundee, Hertfordshire, Sheffield and Newcastle.

Producer:  David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2018.

The 3rd Degree: Series 8

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Quiz hosted by Steve Punt in which a team of students takes on a team of their professors

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