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Five books with musical backdrops if you are inspired by the BBC Proms season
Are you enriched by the Proms season? Check out the five book choices of The Open University’s Dr Joanne Reardon, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. These tales feature the melodious golden threads of music and musical instruments as varied as the BBC Proms itself. From classical and opera to jazz and folk, these intensely human […]
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John Lewis Partnership and Open University’s support for people who have been in care
A single mother who was in foster care as a teenager has been able to study for a degree thanks to an Open University scholarship funded by the John Lewis Partnership (JLP). Althea is in her first year of an English literature and creative writing degree with The Open University after she was chosen as […]
Five classic novels to read about Italy if you loved the BBC’s Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour of the country
If you were thinking of jetting off to Italy this summer and laughed at the antics of this duo in the BBC programme Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour, Antonia Saunders, a research student at The Open University, has a book list you might want to explore. Since this pair traced the footsteps of romantic poet […]
A million digital ‘tourists’ descend on ancient Pompeii
A digital team at The Open University are celebrating after learning their interactive online tour of Pompeii before Mount Vesuvius erupted has notched up more than a million online clicks. Designers within the OU’s Broadcast and Partnerships team were delighted when they learned of the interactive figures, just a month after the airing of the […]
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Comedic novelist’s award in recognition of his life’s work
Celebrated novelist and academic Howard Jacobson has been awarded an honorary degree for his life’s work and contribution to British literature – reinventing the comic novel for the modern age. The Manchester-born academic was made a Doctor of The Open University at one of its degree ceremonies – this one in the city’s Bridgewater Hall […]
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Five books to read if you loved the Agatha Christie whodunnits
If you’re a fan of Agatha Christie Dr Anthony Howell, Senior Lecturer in English at The Open University, and the author of the free OpenLearn short course on the Queen of Crime has picked out five brilliant detective-fiction novels by other authors. Here’s his list. Almost fifty years after her death Agatha Christie’s books and […]
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Han Suyin – the novelist whose 1950s best seller was overtaken by history
Mention ‘Love is a Many-Splendored Thing’ and you might be mistaken for talking about a song from a forgettable 1950s film, but a bestselling novel preceded them both. An Open University academic has taken a new look at the popular romance A Many-Splendoured Thing that became a worldwide hit for its author Han Suyin. Professor Alex […]
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Popular music academic celebrates major anniversary of Dolly Parton song
It’s 50 years since the first recording was made of Dolly Parton’s major hit I will always love you – the hit later taken to chart-topping fame through Whitney Houston’s rendition in the film The Bodyguard. And Dr Marie Thompson, who wrote an Open University six-week short course based on the work of the country […]
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Five books to read if you fell in love with One Day
Sally O’Reilly is an Honorary Associate in creative writing at The Open University and after the recent airing on Netflix of One Day, based on the book of the same name, she has given her recommendations for books of a similar theme. David Nicholls’s One Day is a poignant, witty depiction of love delayed, found, […]
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Nature award for polar bear photo shows that images of these magnificent creatures still have the power to move people
Sam Shaw, who is a lecturer in History of Art at The Open University, says he had ‘mixed feelings’ with the revelation that this polar bear picture won a nature award. Here he tells us of the ‘fascinating’ journey his research took him on in fathoming why these bears have come to illustrate the demise […]
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