Four well-known alumni from the University of Kent will appear on BBC Two’s Christmas University Challenge to be broadcast on Saturday 21 December at 7.05pm.
Competing against teams from 14 other universities and university colleges in the series, Kent’s contestants are: Rebecca Lenkiewicz, playwright and film, television and radio screenwriter; Fi Glover, writer and television and radio presenter; James Wong, television science presenter; and Robert Wade, screenwriter and co-writer of five James Bond films.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz is a playwright, actor and poet who graduated from the University of Kent in 1989 with a BA in Literature and Film. Her play, Her Naked Skin, was performed at the National Theatre in 2008 and was the first play by a female playwright to be performed in the Olivier Theatre. Other plays include The Night Season, Soho, The Painter, Shoreditch Madonna, That Almost Unnameable Lust, The Typist, Blue Moon Over Poplar, Wisconsin, and Stars Over Kabul. She is currently a Patron of Asylum Aid. Rebecca also received an honorary degree from the University of Kent in 2012 in recognition of her contributions to the arts.