The 3rd Degree: Series 9: The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Quiz Show Audiobook (Free)

A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a group of three University students undertake a group of three of their professors.

The show is recorded on location at a different University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors within a genuinely original and fresh undertake an academic quiz

The rounds vary between Professional Subject matter and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds as well as the ‘Highbrow & Lowbrow’ round cunningly devised to test not merely the about Another Degree: Series 9: The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Quiz Show 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, in which students undertake their Professors within their personal subjects, offer plenty of scope for moderate shame on both sides…

With this series, the universities are Royal Holloway (University of London), Aberdeen, Plymouth, St Catharine’s College Cambridge, Brighton and Oxford Brookes

In the initial episode, we’re at Royal Holloway, University of London. The Specialist Subjects are Criminology, British and Law and the questions range between Louis XIV to Lego via yowling and yodelling… Present 2 originates from the School of Aberdeen; the Specialist Subjects are Laws, Language & Linguistics and Music and the questions range between Scottish Gaelic angling jargon to Scottish Prevent & Search Regulation via mallets, marimbas and a deceased pigeon. The 3rd show is at the University or college of Plymouth where in fact the Specialist Topics are History, Geology and Human Biosciences and the questions range between lethal jellyfish to glowing jellyfish via Jack port Straw, Krishna and Planck’s Continuous…

The fourth show in the series comes from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

The Specialist Subjects are Geography, People from france and Veterinary Medication and the questions range from France gender to horse teeth via Wayne Relationship and Dick Dastardly. Show 5 originates from the College or university of Brighton – the Professional Subjects are Biomedical Sciences, Marketing and Background & Globalization and the questions range between Chinese state facilities towards the heraldic name for any squirrel via Trypanosoma and tzatziki. And the final show comes from Oxford Brookes University. The Specialist Subjects are Anthropology, Motorsport Anatomist and Human being Biology & Biological Sciences as well as the questions range between myelinated axons towards the Neolithic Revolution via Wendy Houses and Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

Hosted by Steve Punt

Devised & made by David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for the BBC