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Robots – friend or foe? New OU/BBC series explores the rise of the robots

19 July 2017

Are robots our companions or could they become our greatest rivals? In a special two-part series, electronics engineer, Professor Danielle George, and evolutionary biologist, Dr Ben Garrod, explore everything from driverless cars, to a robot destined to set up home for us on Mars. An obsession with robots in human form Produced in partnership with […]

Addicted Parents: Last Chance to Keep My Children

18 July 2017

Addicted Parents: Last Chance to Keep My Children is a new OU/BBC TV co-production telling the stories of residents at Phoenix Futures’ Specialist Family Service – the only family rehab in the UK, where children live with their addicted parents as they recover. These parents have six months to get clean or they will lose their […]

OU/BBC Hospital: a harrowing second series

16 June 2017

Following critically acclaimed first series, earlier this year, the cameras return to Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for the second series of Hospital. The second four-part series, the first episode of which is due to broadcast on BBC Two on Tuesday 20 June 2017, 21:00, provides an even deeper insight into the ever-increasing demands on the NHS with unique […]

OU supports year-long BBC science and technology season

12 June 2017

The OU is supporting a year-long season of science and technology programmes that will bring science to life for millions. Launched under the banner Tomorrow’s World, the radio and TV programmes and online hub, will take science out of the lab and into peoples’ homes, addressing how science is changing peoples’ lives, reshaping the world, and […]

Antidote to crime dramas hits TV this week – The Met: Policing London

23 May 2017

Across London, twenty four hours a day, the Metropolitan (Met) Police is dealing with the demands and dilemmas of policing a city of eight and a half million people. Following on from the highly successful first series, a second series of The Met: Policing London, which begins on BBC One, 9pm on 24 May, lifts the […]

Series charts the “final countdown” in Crossrail journey

22 May 2017

More than 10,000 engineers and construction workers are racing to complete Crossrail, London’s new Underground and the biggest engineering project in Europe, in time for the first trains to start running. Over two years, the BBC has had exclusive access to this incredible construction project and, in partnership with The Open University, the series returns […]

Documentary shares uplifting stories of those with terminal illness

17 May 2017

A Time to Live, a BBC/OU co-production brings to the screen the remarkable and revealing stories of 12 people living with a terminal illness. The documentary explores the different ways the 12 people, aged from their 20s to their 60s, approach their impending death and the impact on those close to them. Through personal stories, […]

Understanding today’s Teenagers: Child of Our Time returns to BBC One

28 March 2017

Child of Our Time: BBC ONE, 9pm, 3rd & 4th April Since the year 2000, The Open University and the BBC have followed the lives of 25 children born across the UK, to find out what makes us who we are. Now, the hugely popular series Child of Our Time returns to the BBC on […]

OU programme explores the science of sound

1 March 2017

In a two-part BBC series, broadcaster and physicist, Dr Helen Czerski, reveals what the physics of sound can tell us about the world and how it works. Produced in partnership with the OU, and broadcast on BBC Four from Thursday 2 March 2017, 21:00, Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics explores the extremes of the […]

OU/BBC production allows viewers to Meet the Lords

27 February 2017

A peek into the biggest parliamentary body outside China, the Chamber of Lords, is in store in a new two-part documentary co-produced by The Open University and the BBC. Meet The Lords on BBC2 from Monday 27th February will help to explain what the 800 plus peers do on a day to day basis. Production company […]

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