Higher: The Complete Series 1-4: 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 amp;mdash; renamed Geographical Tourism amp;mdash; 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 back stabbings 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