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Michael Young 1915 - 2002
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3 August 1976  BBC

Michael Young talks to Peter Smith about

   Audiothe consumer report on nationalised industries  1 min 54

   Audiowhether the trades unions act against the interests of consumers  1 min 7


Open University Re-examined
1 February 1983  BBC

Michael Young talks to John Vaizey about

   Audiocorrespondence education and the origins of the Open University  1 min 58

   Audiowhy the Open University is different from other institutions  0 min 55


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Michael Young
British social innovator and policy maker

Inventor of the Open University and the Consumers' Association, Michael Young also wrote the radical 1945 Labour manifesto down playing it as "nothing very visionary".

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