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Acknowledgements for Part 1

Part 1 Video: Happy Birthday OU: 50 Years of the Open University, 25 April 2019, BBC4. © BBC

Part 1 Video: Footage from Harold Wilson's 'University of the Air' speech given at the Labour Party Conference in 1963.

Part 1 banner_image: Chris Floyd

OU STEM faculty image: Publisher Unknown

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Elderly woman on mobile: Photo by Malcolm Lightbody on Unsplash

Tim Blackman talks to AL Assembly: Tony Jones

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Christine Thelma Newton: Christine Newton

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