Magdalen College, Oxford, has also won the competition four times since the television series began in 1962.

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Dr Lalvani, who made the notes, is one of the six academics involved in the medical admissions process at Magdalen College.

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He also attended Magdalen College at Oxford University in England.

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That notion was a key factor in the Laura Spence affair, he said - when Oxford was accused by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, of being elitist after Laura, a comprehensive school pupil, failed to get a place to study medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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Mary Alice Higbie and her son, Daniel, run this charming tearoom where guests are tucked into intimate seating areas inspired by English spots such as Stow on the Wold, in the Cotswolds, and Magdalen, for the college in Oxford.

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