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Higher: The Complete Series 1-4
- Author
- Joyce Bryant
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Publish Date
- 25 October 2018
- Run Time
- 7 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A BBC comedy drama set in the world of a "pile 'em high university". Karen Poynter is the new head of the Geography Department - renamed Geographical Tourism - at Hayborough University, which is definitely not part of the elite Russell Group of top universities. Ranked 132nd in the UK academic league table; if you have a pulse, you can have a degree.
This is the high energy farce of the breeze block and grotty cafeteria, with all the endless meetings, the backstabbings and the sheer panic of a university setting. In an era of increasing fees and cutbacks, this satire has become all the more acute.
Starring Sophie Thomson (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 1, Coronation Street) as Karen, with Jonathan Keeble (War and Peace) as the venal Dean.
Episode list:
Pilot show
Partners
Inspection
The Price of Partnership
Restructure
Rebrand, Relaunch
Clearing
Privatisation, the Final Battle
Year of the Rat
Creative Solutions
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Details
- Author
- Joyce Bryant
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 7 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 October 2018
- ISBN
- 9781787534124
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
A BBC comedy drama set in the world of a "pile 'em high university". Karen Poynter is the new head of the Geography Department - renamed Geographical Tourism - at Hayborough University, which is definitely not part of the elite Russell Group of top universities. Ranked 132nd in the UK academic league table; if you have a pulse, you can have a degree.This is the high energy farce of the breeze block and grotty cafeteria, with all the endless meetings, the backstabbings and the sheer panic of a university setting. In an era of increasing fees and cutbacks, this satire has become all the more acute.Starring Sophie Thomson (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 1, Coronation Street) as Karen, with Jonathan Keeble (War and Peace) as the venal Dean.Episode list:Pilot show PartnersInspectionThe Price of PartnershipRestructureRebrand, RelaunchClearingPrivatisation, the Final BattleYear of the RatCreative Solutions
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