The 3rd Degree: Series 8-14: The BBC Radio 4 Brainy Quiz Show

Steve Punt's quiz show where a team of three students take on a team of three of their professors

A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt (star of BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and the brains behind Horrible Histories) where a team of three University 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 Specialist Knowledge and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and ‘Highbrow and Lowbrow’. Which of the students will turn out to be complete trivia-boffins? Will the Lecturers reveal they know more about Beyoncé than Barthes? There’s plenty of scope for embarrassment on both sides...

Production credits
Devised and produced by David Tyler
Hosted by Steve Punt

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