They’re the distinguished alumni of a few of our high universities.
However with names akin to Paul Gambaccini, Reeta Chakrabarti, Victoria Gill and Sanchia Berg among the many contestants on the newest Christmas College Problem sequence, viewers may very well be forgiven for considering {that a} spell on the BBC may also have gained them a seat on the present.
Of the 56 opponents making up the 14 groups, almost 20 both work for the company or have labored with it in recent times.
Eight are common on-air expertise, together with Radio 2 host Gambaccini, newsreader Ms Chakrabarti and Radio 5 Stay’s Rachel Burden.
Featured on this yr’s Christmas specials have been comic Ivo Graham, who commonly appeared on Mock The Week earlier than its cancellation and Paul Gambaccini, from Radio 2
Exeter School, Oxford was captained by Reeta Chakrabati, who studied English and French on the faculty between 1984 and 1988
Ms Gill is science reporter and Ms Berg a information correspondent on the BBC.
Different members within the BBC2 sequence, which started on December 19 and concludes on Friday, embrace administrators, screenwriters, comedians and actors who’ve all labored on the company.
A supply stated that, whereas the present is made by an organization owned by ITV, the company may be very concerned in who seems.
A TV insider stated: ‘The superstar groups appear like they’re booked by somebody simply opening the BBC workers telephone listing.’
A BBC spokesman stated the programme ‘encompasses a vary of distinguished alumni.’
