The family viewing ritual that played a major part in one student's formative education... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to My Pre-University Challenge, by Jennifer Carey above.
For years, there's been an unspoken rule in our house that on Monday evenings at 8 p.m., the TV will be switched to BBC Two.
Dinner eaten, we make a cup of tea and take our places on the sagging couch as the chirpy, convoluted tune of 'College Boy’ plays over the title sequence of our favourite show, portraying figures of the past, different inventions and theorems.
As the camera pans along, a voice declares, ‘University Challenge!’...
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