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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  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