Double award win for BBC/OU co-productions

BBC The Green Planet

Two programmes co-produced by The Open University and BBC have won accolades at this year’s Grierson Awards.

The Green Planet: Tropical Worlds secured ‘Best Natural History or Environmental Documentary’. 

We Are Black and British won ‘Best Constructed Documentary Series’. 

Read what the judges had to say in the full article on OU News.

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