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Hard-hitting new OU/BBC series Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland explores the human experiences of The Troubles, giving voice to the people who share intimate stories from all sides of the conflict.

OU/BBC co-production ‘Forensics: The Real CSI’ returns to BBC2 with 4 new episodes, with Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology Dr Jim Turner as one of the academic consultants.

Sam Shaw and Carla Benzan, lecturers in Art History, have been contributing to the buzz around the highly popular BBC/OU co-production Wild Isles.

Award-winning writer and OU graduate, Daniel Tammet, praised the “vital role” played by the arts as he received an Honorary Doctorate for services to the arts and sciences.

OU academic Dan Taylor has won one of the nation’s 10 coveted places as a “New Generation Thinker” to bring fresh thinking to a range of topics on the world around us.

FASS academic chairs a cross-sector panel on the value of education in Arts & Humanities to freelancers, major employers, and the UK economy as part of the Creative Coalition Festival in London.

Professor John Wolffe, Religious Studies, writes on how Mothering Sunday has evolved over the centuries from its origins as a break in lent to a secular celebration of family. 

Professor Rosalind Crone, Head of History, returns as Historical Consultant for BBC’s Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, and appears throughout the new series, which takes a contemporary feminist perspective to true-crime cases.

A new online course, jointly developed by experts at The Open University and the University of Northampton, is now available for social care professionals who work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) and separated or lone migrant young people.

OU/BBC co-production The Women Who Changes Scotland reveals how pioneering women since the 1960s transformed Scotland’s laws, culture, and imagination.