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Open Forum 24: OUSA lecture 1977

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS OUTDATED, RACIALLY OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE Sir Harold Wilson's 1977 OUSA lecture at York University where he talks about the birth of the OU and higher education... in other countries.
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2400:01:39,00000:01:43,000And it was on one of these occasions at the Bolshoi that night
2500:01:44,00000:01:48,000that I told him about the OU and I said that I would like to invite him
2600:01:49,00000:01:52,000formally to send his Minister of Higher Education over to see what we had created
2700:01:53,00000:01:55,000and this occurred and the Minister did in fact did come over and I saw him.
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