Joyce Bryant

Sophie Thompson

Jonathan Keeble

Mark Heap

Robert Daws

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A BBC Radio 4 comedy

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

Higher: The Complete Series 1-4

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