Fresh Meat

Public schoolboy JP, insecure Kingsley, wide-eyed Josie, socially awkward know-it-all Howard, hard-living Vod and desperate-to-be-cool Oregon embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far

The housemates are in social Siberia so they decide to throw a party, spearheaded by Josie in the hope that she and Kingsley will get together, but her plans are scuppered by her boyfriend!

Oregon and Prof Shales's flirtation reaches bizarre new levels when he pays her to clean his oven. And enticed by Ruth the alluring drama queen, Kingsley rashly switches courses to drama.

Kingsley is forced to confess to Josie that he is a virgin, and she offers to 'cure' him. But the deal is undercut when Kingsley unexpectedly winds up having sex with drama queen Ruth

Vod finds out about Oregon's affair with Shales, while Kingsley is pursuing Ruth at a student demo when they get kettled with Josie, and Kingsley's two-timing is exposed

Oregon is distraught to learn that her childhood horse is dying, culminating in the revelation that she isn't called Oregon at all, but Melissa

Oregon resolves to break off her affair with Professor Shales, but he wrong-foots her by leaving his wife and turning up on her doorstep. Brian begs Howard to resume their friendship.

In the last episode of the first series, Josie embarks on a 'girl power' booze and sex fest with help from Vod. JP helps Ralph organise the Love Cloud club night but it clashes with his dad's funeral.

It's a new term. Kingsley has a new image. Josie turns over a new leaf. JP's friend Giles has transferred from Exeter. Vod's skint and it's time to find a replacement for invisible flatmate Paul Lamb

A spate of muggings on campus leave the gang concerned about their safety, while JP is confined to his bed with mumps. Kingsley makes an announcement that leaves Josie reeling.

The boys compete for lucrative internships at a geology careers fair. Meanwhile, Oregon is thrown together with Tony again, as she attempts to secure funding for her new magazine.

It's the Easter break and JP invites the gang to stay at his country house, but it's not as idyllic as it seems...

Josie makes a catastrophic error of judgement, Oregon falls for a sexy librarian, JP makes a 'local' friend, Vod falls in love and Howard turns detective in a bid to catch an intruder

Spurred on by a righteous sense of getting-his-money's-worth, Kingsley makes an official complaint, but when a field trip goes awry, things come to a head for him and JP

At an open mic gig at the Student Union, Kingsley performs a song written by Blur's Graham Coxon. And Vod gatecrashes a poetry seminar by the renowned poet John Frobisher.

The end of the academic year is approaching and the housemates have to make some big decisions...

Howard and JP try to coax some female freshers to join their dry slope skiing society, while Vod's summer fling turns up unexpectedly. And the gang go to visit Josie in Southampton.

Vod comes up with a plan to get rid of her holiday romance. Howard likes a girl but JP thinks she's out of his league, so he tries to poach her in order to restore the natural order of things.

Realising how serious Javier has become since their wedding, Vod tries to dump him, but it's not that simple. Meanwhile, Howard comes up with a plan to humiliate JP at a university quiz.

Having been rejected by Sam for cheating in the quiz, JP makes it his mission to win her back by signing up to take part in a medical drugs trial that he knows she'll be attending

There's much excitement in the house when Vod announces that her mum is coming to stay. Nobody can quite believe she's even got a mum, and when she arrives she's not what anybody expected.

The housemates get radical as they participate in a university sit-in organised by Oregon to demonstrate against the forced deportation of a hot Tunisian guy

It's Howard's birthday, not that he's told anybody. But word gets out anyway and the housemates throw him a party. Oregon is keen to hijack the whole event and turn it into a political fundraiser.

In the series finale, relationships and friendships are on the rocks, and Oregon goes head to head against Vod in the Student Union elections

JP's brother arrives unannounced, halfway through the second term of the year. All of a sudden the residents of Hartnell Avenue realise how close they are to finishing their degrees. Howard's plans may be ruined by Candice. Oregon needs help from Rosa to get her USA scholarship. Vod has a money-making scheme that she's been working on. Kingsley is looking for love in all the wrong places. JP has plans to have one last big blowout before everyone gets on with studying.

Vod believes that taking a job in the pub will be the answer to her money worries. Howard seems to have developed a small drinking problem since he broke up with Candice. Oregon sets up a poetry competition in her own name, as a way of cementing her legacy as the latest student body president. Josie goes searching for new housemates. Kingsley is shocked when he learns that Rosa has a son.

The newly non-funded wheelchair rugby team protests against Oregon's presidency, Josie is having an identity crisis and takes the drastic measure of rebranding herself, and Vod decides to retreat to an anarchist commune, with the other two girls tagging along. The boys head to London, where Kingsley feels positive about a potential post at a radio station, JP visits his brother's firm to `collect his job' and Howard tries to familiarise himself with the city before he goes for his interview at the Ordnance Survey

Determined not to be friendless next year, Josie decides to join the badminton society. Oregon's future is starting to look under threat when disgruntled societies, who have had their funding cut to pay for her poetry competition, decide to pass a motion to have her removed from office. Elsewhere JP's brother Tomothy takes a drastic measure in his attempts to force him to toe the line. Vod decides to take control of the graduation ball.

The finals are fast approaching however things are falling apart. Tickets for the graduate ball are selling very well but Vod may be promising things she can't deliver. JP, desperate to cram as much geology into his brain, hires a revision barge, and convinces Howard to join him. Kingsley's relationship begins to disintegrate leaving him a physical wreck. After been fired as Union President, Oregon has to do some serious work if she is to qualify for a prestigious scholarship in the US.

The finals are over and the results are in, but not everyone's happy. Will the housemates host the best grad ball of all time or will they have to flee Manchester in the night?