Starter for 10

A warm, playful coming-of-age comedy about a working-class scholarship student navigating university life, intellectual ambition, and romantic entanglement against a 1980s backdrop.

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.