Black Ambition

Latest Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 5: EPISODE: 5

  Tricia Mundy is the only black veterinary student at Cambridge.

• Season 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4

  As the final exams loom, law student Lucy Bernard is frantically studying, hoping to repeat her success of the first year. As the only pupil at her state school to get into Cambridge, she feels she has a lot to prove, but sees class, rather than race, as the prejudice in the university. Masters student Damien Williams tries to juggle studying with preparing the annual Harvard dinner and catching up with his mother, who is flying in from America, while Cambridge graduate Sasha Morgan gets a job working for the Audit Commission, where she soon learns that experience is just as valuable as education. Last in series

• Season 1 Episode 3: Pam Dusu and Lola Adesiaye

  The stories of childhood friends Pam Dusu and Lola Adesiaye, who now live next door to each other in Robinson College. While Pam is determined to get a good degree so she can make a living practising law, Lola feels studying at Cambridge leaves her ostracised both by her fellow students, who look down on her because she is part of a special scheme, and her friends outside the college, who feel that by studying at Cambridge she is compromising her heritage