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Examines the assignment system: its purpose and the problems it causes. Ends with Harold Wilson's comment on the OU on the day he resigned as Prime Minister.
| 1 | 00:00:00,000 | 00:00:01,000 | Open Forum 4 (1976) 00525/7069 |
| 2 | 00:00:01,000 | 00:00:02,000 | (Wynne Brindle) Well that was to have been the end of the programme… |
| 3 | 00:00:03,000 | 00:00:05,000 | ..but as a postscript let's listen to something the Prime Minister said... |
| 4 | 00:00:06,000 | 00:00:08,000 | ..on the day he announced his resignation. It was in answer… |
| 5 | 00:00:09,000 | 00:00:11,000 | ..to a question put to him by David Holmes the BBC's Political Editor… |
| 6 | 00:00:12,000 | 00:00:15,000 | ..who asked Mr. Wilson which of his achievements he rated highest. |
| 7 | 00:00:16,000 | 00:00:19,000 | (Harold Wilson) Well there are some, away from the kind of question... |
| 8 | 00:00:20,000 | 00:00:23,000 | ..I've been answering, for example to have created The Open University which… |
| 9 | 00:00:24,000 | 00:00:30,000 | ..was my own devising and which I saw through and I think this will be remembered... |
| 10 | 00:00:31,000 | 00:00:33,000 | ..when many other of the arguments of today have been forgotten. |
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