Historical OU TV and Radio

The Open University has produced a number of series to inform students and a wider audience about the University. Series such as 'Open Forum' and 'Countdown to the OU' covered various topics such as methods of teaching, information about modules and guidance on areas such as summer schools. The OU Digital Archive Historical Television and Radio collection includes a small sample of the archive. The collection will grow as more contents are added.

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audio record of Open Forum 10(1974)Dr Chris Wilson on his tour in America. Students on study habits.
audio record of Open Forum Extra28(1973)Discussion of the book "The 19th century novel".
audio record of Open Forum Extra 15(1973)Discussion with disabled students and the problems they encounter doing the courses. The various...
audio record of Open Forum 16(1974)Prof John Sparkes talks about technology in 1976. Prof Walter James talks about education studies...
audio record of Open Forum Extra 19(1973)Open Forum for disabled students.
audio record of Open Forum 09(1974)Naomi McIntosh on her new appointment as Pro-Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. How the...
audio record of Open Forum 26(1973)Discussion on teaching by telephone - students from different regions tell about the advantages of...
audio record of Open Forum Extra 31(1973)Discussion on the conscious brain.
audio record of Open Forum Extra 37(1973)Evolution, science and religion.
audio record of Open Forum 13Inserts(1973)Open Forum 13 (1973) inserts. New courses for 1974.
audio record of Open Forum 4(1975)Professor Neil talks of other countries' interest in the OU, the way they can be helped by the OU's...
audio record of Open Forum 34(1974)Sir Frederick Warner (the new Pro-Chancellor) speaks about his background. Ken Jones describes a...
audio record of Open Forum 23(1975)Arthur Jones, a member of the Russell Committee, discusses with Brian Stone the OU's response to...
audio record of Open Forum 29(1975)Discussion of what students who will start studying with the OU in 1976 can do in the way of...
audio record of Open Forum 38(1975)How to prepare for study with the OU: S100.
audio record of Open Forum 34(1975)Jack Singleton and four students and a tutor discuss revision and exams.
audio record of Open Forum 5(1976)Jack Singleton talks to new graduates.
audio record of Open Forum 6(1975)Godfrey Woodward and Eleanor Milburn speak of the recognition of OU degrees by bodies such as Law...
audio record of Open Forum 33(1974)Jack Singleton talks to Peter Varney (OU student A401 section) about the revision week-end at...
audio record of Open Forum 12(1975)Maggie Jones talks to Jack Singleton about the trip to Rome organised by OUSA Welfare. Ivor Shipley...
audio record of Open Forum 20(1975)Richard Bentley talks to Albert Denny, works foreman, about his honorary MA. John Greenall on a new...
audio record of Open Forum 11(1975)Jack Singleton and Sir Walter Perry discuss the raising of fees for students. OUSA conference at...
audio record of Open Forum 9(1975)George Arkieson, the new Director for Scotland, talks to Jack Singleton. A306 Course Team - Derek...
audio record of Open Forum 37(1974)Pat Paxon, a housewife doing M100, and Roy Knight, who wrote the preparatory material for the M100...
audio record of Open Forum 40(1974)A discussion about the problems of students who are about to begin the S100 nd T100 courses.
audio record of Open Forum J(1975)Discussion on what the broadcast element in the course components sets out to do.
audio record of Open Forum 14(1978)A discussion by staff and students on conditional registration and how a student might go about...
audio record of Open Forum 08(1979)A series of letters from students are read and OU staff comment on some of them.
audio record of Open Forum Extra 2(1974)Summer-born children and their problems in relation to reading etc. The relationship between season...
audio record of Open Forum 12(1979)A visit to the Thurso Study Centre where students put questions to OU staff members.
audio record of Open Forum 13(1979)Visit to the Thurso Study Centre.
audio record of Open Forum Extra 5(1974)"Energy - too much or too little?"."
audio record of Open Forum 04(1980)Successful fight of OU students in the Grampian region to prevent their local authority from...
audio record of Open Forum 34(1978)The programme covers:Sir Walter Perry talking about the OU tenth anniversary appeal: Katherine...
audio record of Open Forum 06(1979)Credit Transfer agreements with other universities and polytechnics are discussed. News of the...
audio record of Open Forum 31(1978)Discussion on the Open University of Venezuela, the stand at the Photokina exhibition at Cologne. A...
audio record of Open Forum 23(1979)Visit to the 1979 Open Day and interviews with students, the Editor of SESAME and with...
audio record of Open Forum 06(1980)Visit to the Lincoln Study Centre where OU staff answer questions from OU students.
audio record of Open Forum 10(1979)Report from the OUSA sixth annual conference at Keele University.
audio record of Open Forum 8(1978)A visit to Weymouth study centre where students ask questions of a panel on various OU topics.
audio record of Open Forum 10(1978)1) possibility of courses in medicine at the OU discussed. 2) a student organised musical workshop...
audio record of Open Forum 11(1974)Leslie Holloway talks to Jack Singleton about the next edition of Sesame. Peter Frogbrook on the...
audio record of Open Forum 7(1977)Monthly letterbox. Pros and Cons of compulsory foundation course requirements and the possible use...
audio record of Open Forum 35(1977)Next phase of the OU in line with the Venables Report recommendation. Reasons for moving the BBC...
audio record of Open Forum 40(1976)Jack Singleton talks to Bill Lindsey about the inter-regional conference at Gatehouse of Fleet....
audio record of Open Forum 24(1976)Report on an interview with Harrison Schmitt by an OU third level earth sciences course team - S333...
audio record of Open Forum 31(1977)OU facilities for disabled students, particularly the blind, are discussed. Newsletter.
audio record of Open Forum 13(1976)Norman Woods and Michael Stevens talk about some aspects of the Interim Report of the Venables...
audio record of Open Forum 35(1976)Keele University Summer School - vocational counselling. Music night led by Donald Burrows.
audio record of Open Forum 11(1977)