Starter for 10
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
Director: Angela Wharton, Tom Vaughan
Actors: Alice Eve, Benedict Cumberbatch, Catherine Tate, Dominic Cooper, Guy Henry, James Corden, James McAvoy, John Henshaw, Mark Gatiss, Rebecca Hall