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Open Forum 4 1976

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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.
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100:00:00,00000:00:01,000Open Forum 4 (1976) 00525/7069
200:00:01,00000:00:02,000(Wynne Brindle) Well that was to have been the end of the programme…
300:00:03,00000:00:05,000..but as a postscript let's listen to something the Prime Minister said...
400:00:06,00000:00:08,000..on the day he announced his resignation. It was in answer…
500:00:09,00000:00:11,000..to a question put to him by David Holmes the BBC's Political Editor…
600:00:12,00000:00:15,000..who asked Mr. Wilson which of his achievements he rated highest.
700:00:16,00000:00:19,000(Harold Wilson) Well there are some, away from the kind of question...
800:00:20,00000:00:23,000..I've been answering, for example to have created The Open University which…
900:00:24,00000:00:30,000..was my own devising and which I saw through and I think this will be remembered...
1000:00:31,00000:00:33,000..when many other of the arguments of today have been forgotten.
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