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Christmas 2014: Episode 1
The first match is between Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford with news presenter Cathy Newman and actor Sam West and the University of Warwick with novelist Jonathan Coe and travel writer Simon Calder. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.
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