In the nepotistic UK it is not what you know, it’s who you know and where you’ve been to university.

The aura that surrounds Oxbridge shines brightly – but scratch the surface and you find a different story driven by snobbery and backbiting. So are universities educating our best people or have they become mere networking facilities for big business and politics?

Ethnographer & author Lisa McKenzie with Biography & Fiction author Dr. Paula Byrne join host Ross Ashcroft to discuss.