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Countdown to the OU 1 (1983) FOUF053S

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(Narrator) The plans for The Open University 
  were first outlined by...

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..Harold Wilson at the 1963 Labour Party 
  Conference in Scarborough.

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Harold Wilson: And relevant also to these 
  problems are our plans for a...

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..University of the Air, is designed to 
  provide an opportunity for those,

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who for one reason or another, have not been 
  able to take advantages...

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..of higher education, now to do so; with all 
  the TV and radio and the...

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..state sponsored correspondence course and 
  the facilities of...

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..a university for setting and marking
   papers and conducting...

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..examinations and awarding degrees, that all 
  these things can provide.

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(Narrator) When he became Prime Minister in 
  1964 few people believed that...

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..a University of the Air was possible
   or even necessary...

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..but he was determined to go ahead.