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Our partnership - the learning journey

The Open University's partnership with the BBC is continually striving to bring you absorbing, innovative and inspiring TV series such as, Wartime Farm on BBC One and Stargazing on BBC Two.

That partnership is now developing online learning journeys that enable you to take your interests further. You have just embarked on one!

We've got lots of great FREE learning materials to complement the programmes made by The Open University and the BBC:

  • FREE posters, booklets, resources and apps
  • Specially produced animations and educational games

Here’s a selection of our current broadcasts and FREE offerings - full details of our broadcasts can be found on OpenLearn.  

Keeping Britain Alive

This new observational documentary series follows the life of the NHS in a single day, telling the stories of staff and patients across the country in this one specific moment in time.

You can still order the free booklet "Working to save lives" exploring a day in the life of healthcare.

Bankers

Bankers is a brand new series which will lift the lid on the recent banking crisis while asking: can we turn back the clock? We'll be giving you the chance to get your voice heard: what do you think about the topics covered in the series and the banking world as a whole?

Evan Davis - The Bottom LineWhat to listen to now on radio

  • Thinking Allowed is BBC Radio 4’s weekly focus on the social sciences.
  • More or Less, hosted by Tim Harford demystifies the numbers and statistics used in politics, news and everyday life
  • The Bottom Line, hosted by Evan Davis is Radio 4’s weekly business conversation.

Go to OpenLearn for more information about what’s on Radio.

Coming up on television

Also look out for the following programmes coming soon:

  • Feynman, telling the story of how Richard Feynman, a quantum physicist and one of America’s most famous scientists, helped to uncover what caused the Space Shuttle Challenger to blow up in 1986.
  • Pain, Pus and Poison looks at the history of medicine, with Michael Mosley telling the extraordinary story of how mankind learnt to look at the world around him and use it to heal his body.

Further information on all these series will be on OpenLearn.