Television programmes featuring versions of\u00a0these\u00a0plays were made for A307 in the BBC\u2019s Studio A at Alexandra Palace in 1977.<\/p>\n
1. Sophocles, Oedipus the King<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n 2. Shakespeare, Macbeth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n 3. The York Crucifixion <\/em>and The Brome Abraham and Isaac<\/em><\/p>\n 4. Carlo Goldoni, The Venetian Twins<\/em><\/p>\n 5. William Congreve, The Way of the World<\/em><\/p>\n 6. Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi<\/em><\/p>\n 7. Georg B\u00fcchner, Woyzeck<\/em><\/p>\n 8. Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt<\/em><\/p>\n 9. Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck<\/em><\/p>\n 10. Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters<\/em><\/p>\n 11. August Stindberg, The Ghost Sonata<\/em><\/p>\n 12. Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author<\/em><\/p>\n 13. Bertolt Brecht, The Exception and the Rule<\/em><\/p>\n 14. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot<\/em><\/p>\n 15. Jean Genet, The Balcony<\/em><\/p>\n 16. Athol Fugard, Sizwe Bansi is Dead<\/em><\/p>\n Although it was involved in the production process the\u00a0BBC refused to screen Jean Genet\u2019s play, Le Balcon<\/em> (The Balcony)<\/em> which was set in a brothel. The 1971 Agreement between the OU and the BBC gave the latter the right to \u2018refuse to transmit any programme or part of a programme which in the opinion of the Corporation contains anything defamatory or likely to bring the Corporation into disrepute\u2019 (Agreement 16 December 1971, Broadcasting File 2, OU Archives, Clause 4, p. 3. Copy in Broadcasting File 2, OU Archives). Despite the right to broadcast, or not, resting with the BBC, the Corporation was rebuked by the OU\u2019s Chancellor at the Alexandra Palace degree ceremony (See Open House<\/em>, 24 May 1977, Open House, 5 July 1977).\u00a0 For more about the drama made for A307 see Brian Stone and Pat Scorer, Sophocles to Fugard<\/em>, BBC, London 1977.\u00a0Brian Stone <\/a>(1919-95) was the Course Team Chair of A307 and one of the first people to\u00a0be appointed to the OU. A former actor and director he was made a Reader in English Literature in 1969. Pat Scorer was an OU collague who married Stone in 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Television programmes featuring versions of\u00a0these\u00a0plays were made for A307 in the BBC\u2019s Studio A at Alexandra Palace in 1977. 1. Sophocles, Oedipus the King 2. Shakespeare, Macbeth 3. The York Crucifixion and The Brome Abraham and Isaac 4. Carlo Goldoni, The Venetian Twins 5. William Congreve, The Way of the World 6. Alfred Jarry, Ubu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-history-of-the-ou","category-pedagogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}