Overview
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.
Cast
- James McAvoy as Brian Jackson
- Alice Eve as Alice Harbinson
- Rebecca Hall as Rebecca Epstein
- Catherine Tate as Julie Jackson
- Dominic Cooper as Spencer
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Patrick Watts
- James Corden as Tone
- Mark Gatiss as Bamber Gascoigne
- Guy Henry as Dr. Morrison
- John Henshaw as Des