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Gary Smyth is from Belfast and left school just before his sixteenth birthday with no qualifications. He was imprisoned in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) in 1978 and studied Psychology with The Open University from 1981 gaining his honours degree in 1988. After his release in 1993 he studied for an MSc in Occupational Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast.
Gary Smyth is from Belfast and left school just before his sixteenth birthday with no qualifications. He was imprisoned in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) in 1978 and studied Psychology with The Open University from 1981 gaining his honours degree in 1988. After his release in 1993 he studied for an MSc in Occupational Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast.
| Title: | I think what the Open University was was a fountain. |
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| Description: | Gary Smyth recalls how much he loved studying a wide range of courses with The Open University. He singles out a Level One Arts course and how reading authors such as Charlotte Bronte and Shakespeare and studying the Industrial Revolution from an Arts perspective had a huge impact on him. | Rights statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | Contact the OU Archive prior to any re-use. Contact university-archive@open.ac.uk |
| Contributor: | Gary Smyth |
| Duration: | 00:01:01 |
| Master programe code and title: | Gary Smyth Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:19:50 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:20:51 |
| Master programme production number: | 011_S_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
