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University Challenge

2017/18

Episode 32

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Four

The pressure is increasing as the quarter-finals continue. Which team will make it to the next stage of the quiz for students? Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Paxman
Executive Producer:
Peter Gwyn
Producer:
Irene Daniels
Production Company:
ITV Studios

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The Secret Life of Books

The Secret Life of Children's Books

Episode 1: Five Children and It

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

Samantha Bond reveals how a rootless childhood and terrible personal tragedy led Edith Nesbit to create a new kind of children's fiction, a blend of magic and realism. Show more

Stephen Smith explores the life and work of the virtuoso jeweller Carl Faberge, who transformed his father's modest business into the world's most famous supplier of luxury items. Show more

Dr Michael Scott explores how the Romans absorbed Greek theatre and how their empire provides a crucial connection between modern drama and the plays of the ancient Greeks. Show more

Bunny Guinness travels across England to some of Capability Brown's finest landscapes to understand what he might have created had his plan of creating his own garden borne fruit. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Available for years

Mystery based on Agatha Christie's novel. Ten strangers are drawn away from their lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast and find themselves cut off from civilisation. Show more

Contributors

Anthony Marston:
Douglas Booth
Judge Lawrence Wargrave:
Charles Dance
Vera Claythorne:
Maeve Dermody
Det Sgt William Blore:
Burn Gorman
Ethel Rogers:
Anna Maxwell Martin
General John MacArthur:
Sam Neill
Emily Brent:
Miranda Richardson
Doctor Edward Armstrong:
Toby Stephens
Thomas Rogers:
Noah Taylor
Philip Lombard:
Aidan Turner
Cyril Ogilvie Hamilton:
Harley Gallacher
Isaac Morris:
Paul Chahidi
Recording Artist:
Richard Hansell
Fred Narracott:
Christopher Hatherall
Henry Richmond:
Ben Deery
Miss Brady:
Margot Edwards
Olivia Ogilvie Hamilton:
Catherine Bailey
Producer:
Abi Bach

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