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preview image "I… never stopped being drawn back into the fray of academic work"2021clip
preview image "all cooking had to be done on a pressure cooker which we had in the back of the Land Rover"2021clip
preview image "amazingly, I've actually still got a copy of the graduation programme"2021clip
preview image "he… basically told me to buy myself a plane ticket and head off to California"2021clip
preview image "in fact I was the first postgraduate student, I think, in the Faculty of Arts altogether"2021clip
preview image "it felt like a kind of pioneering setting… it was a Wild West"2021clip
preview image "it was a school with a mission"2021clip
preview image "it was extremely odd… to find a university in the middle of the Buckinghamshire countryside"2021program
preview image "it's become increasingly recognised, and I made a small contribution to that I think"2021clip
preview image "my interest in being an educator increased"2021clip
preview image "once the first graduates came out at the end of '72, the whole situation changed"2021clip
preview image "one thing that doing the PhD had taught me was the value of scholarship"2021clip
preview image "so I was kicked out of school at 15 and went to work in a factory"2021clip
preview image "that lonely feeling of heavy burden of responsibility"2021clip
preview image "the atmosphere was hurried and near-chaotic - I fitted in perfectly!"2021clip
preview image "the first ten years worth of history was played out on stage"2021clip
preview image "there was even a Dutch/Belgian TV crew who came along at one point"2021clip
preview image "there was no sense of Higher Education at all in my family, none"2021clip
preview image "well, at this point I'm thinking this is Game Over"2021clip
preview image "whatever it took to make the OU a success, it was all hands on deck"2021clip
preview image "you've got to become very self-reliant, or the ship will sink"2021clip