Ally Pally and the Open University

Thanks to Save Ally Pally for this bit of history about the connection between Ally Pally and the Open University

The Alexandra Palace studios hosted the OU programmes for the first decade of its life; BBC news having vacated them in 1969.

Although not much of the AP was shown you can see some short extracts of the classic kipper tie-festooned programmes from Studio A(?) which have survived on a BBC4 programme Happy Birthday OU: 40 Years of the Open University available for this week on iplayer