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.

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  Tom Vaughan
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  Angela Wharton

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  James McAvoy
  Brian Jackson
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  Alice Eve
  Alice Harbinson
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  Rebecca Hall
  Rebecca Epstein
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  Catherine Tate
  Julie Jackson
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  Dominic Cooper
  Spencer
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  Benedict Cumberbatch
  Patrick Watts
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  James Corden
  Tone
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  Mark Gatiss
  Bamber Gascoigne
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  Guy Henry
  Dr. Morrison
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  John Henshaw
  Des
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  Elaine Tan
  Lucy Chang
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  Simon Woods
  Josh
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  Charles Dance
  Michael Harbinson
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  Lindsay Duncan
  Rose Harbison
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  Sule Rimi
  Marcus
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  Ian Bonar
  Colin
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  Nicholas Gleaves
  Speaker for Nuclear Disarmament
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  Joe Van Moyland
  Hippy at Party
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  James Gaddas
  Martin Jackson
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  Joseph Friend
  Young Brian