The 3rd Degree: Series 1-7: The Complete BBC Radio 4 Collection Audiobook (Free)

A quiz display hosted by Steve Punt (superstar of BBC Radio 4’s The Now Display as well as the brains behind Horrible Histories) where a team of three University or college students take on a team of three of their professors.

Every week, at a different University, it pits a team of three Students against three of their Lecturers. The rounds vary between EXPERT UNDERSTANDING and General Understanding, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and ‘Highbrow and Lowbrow’. Which of the college students will turn out to be full trivia-boffins? about Another Degree: Series 1-7: The Complete BBC Radio 4 Collection Will the Lecturers reveal they learn about Beyoncé than Barthes? There’s plenty of scope for embarrassment on both edges…

The universities in the first series are Southampton, Durham, Stirling, Reading, Salford & Middlesex.

The universities in the second series are the School of East Anglia, Swansea, Warwick, Sussex, Queen Mary London and Northampton

The universities in the third series are Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Exeter, Shower Health spa and Anglia Ruskin (in Cambridge) and the subjects range from Rocket Research (literally!) to Innovative Music Technology. In the meantime, the questions cover every subject matter under the sun, including dada & Dylan, The Kardashians & the Ku Klux Klan, gherkins & Gummi Bears and concrete & cogwheels…

The universities in the fourth series are Bristol, Kent, Bedfordshire, Aberystwyth, Nottingham & Birmingham and the subjects range between Sports Research to Theatre Research via Welsh Folklore and Journalism. In the mean time, the queries cover every subject under the sun, including Candy Crush Part & cauliflowers, Kierkegaard and Kim Kardashian, Wagner, Debussy, Scooby-Doo, Geoff Hurst, Swedish massage and monkey glands…

The universities in the fifth series are Cardiff, Manchester, Essex, De Montfort, Aston & Surrey as well as the subjects range from Forensic Technology to Contour Fashion via Psychology and Astrophysics. On the other hand, the questions cover every subject under the sun, including both Epic Of Gilgamesh and My Little Pony, Gogglebox & blood spatter patterns, rugby balls and the Treaty of Westphalia…

The universities in the sixth series are York, Gloucestershire, Chester, Glasgow, Birmingham Town University & Shower and the subjects range between Theatre History to Cosmology via Sociology and Visual Communication. Meanwhile, the questions cover every subject under the sun, including such varied concepts as Mary Poppins, Hugo Boss, trampolining and Celebrity Wars, not to mention an unexpected fact about rats that’s once heard, never forgotten…

In the seventh series, the universities are Roehampton, Queen’s University Belfast, Hull, Derby, Liverpool and St John’s College Cambridge