Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig are with the contestants every step of the way, and during a break from the action, Sandi returns to her old haunt, Cambridge University, to discover the history of the
college pudding.
The Lunch Club this Thursday will be serving pork in apple and onion with potatoes and vegetables followed by
college pudding and custard.
At its recent inaugural meeting, the 40 new members had the mouth watering choice of sticky toffee pudding,
college pudding, jam roly poly, apricot queen of puddings, bread and butter pudding and very chocolately pudding.
Channel Four's The Manageress, with the marvellous rubber-faced Warren Clarke as a suitably slippery chairman, 'Dixie' Dean out of Boys from the Black Stuff as the cynical Scouse coach, one of those ubiquitous McGann brothers as the hard-nosed skipper, cheery Cockney fly boy Charlie O'Keeffe up front, a University-educated '
college pudding', and the trumpetplaying Northern keeper, was as good as it got.
In the way he likes to play his cricket though, he's certainly no
college pudding, appearing as tough as an Illingworth or a Close, with temper to match.