Heydon Prowse (left) and Jolyon Rubinstein are the University of Sussex graduates behind a BBC Three TV show, ‘The Revolution Will be Televised’, which won a BAFTA in May 2013.

Heydon Prowse (left) and Jolyon Rubinstein are the University of Sussex graduates behind a candid camera-style BBC Three show, ‘The Revolution Will be Televised’, which won a BAFTA last night (12 May).

The six-part TV series, which involves the two comedians befuddling celebrities and politicians in familiar settings, won them a 2013 British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Programme.

They received their trophies during a glittering ceremony to celebrate the best TV programmes and performances of the past year, hosted by broadcaster Graham Norton at London's Royal Festival Hall.

The two stars of the hit comedy enjoyed somewhat less glamorous surroundings when they came back to campus in December 2012 to talk politics, power and activism to a lecture theatre packed with current Sussex students.

It was also a chance for the pair to revive memories of their time together at Sussex, when Heydon Prowse studied philosophy and Jolyon Rubinstein was a politics student. They both graduated in 2004.