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Christmas 2017: 5. St John's College, Cambridge v St Edmund Hall, Oxford
It is match five of this special Christmas series for distinguished alumni. In the St John's, Cambridge, team are screen writer Frederic Raphael and writer Laura Bates. They are fighting it out for a place in the semis against St Edmund Hall, Oxford, featuring Sky News presenter Anna Botting and screenwriter and comedian Emma Kennedy.\n\nJeremy Paxman asks the questions.
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