History of the OU in fiction
Thursday, May 26th, 2011The current story
line in BBC popular drama Waterloo Road, in which the school caretaker’s OU studies are an excuse for a blossoming romance with the head teacher, is just the latest example of how the OU has become a handy plot device for television fiction.
The OU page on Wikipedia reports that other television series in which characters have studied with the OU courses have included Ever Decreasing Circles and Goodnight Sweetheart; in Brookside, Sheila Grant was accused of having an affair with her tutor; and there are many other references. (more…)