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>They used to broadcast their material on weekend mornings on BBC2

They also broadcast overnight, with the expectation that learners would record the material for later viewing. There was something beautifully surreal about people shambling home from the pub at midnight and turning on the TV to be lulled to sleep by a lecture on non-Euclidean geometry or medieval history.




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