Carnegie Pioneers: Jennie Lee

Carnegie Pioneers Episode One - Jennie Lee. 

This inaugural episode follows Robert Gordon University student Nithya Chandrasekaran as she retraces the footsteps of Jennie Lee – the trailblazing politician who became one of Britain’s first elected female politicians, its first minister for the arts and whose vision was central to the founding of the Open University.

Along the way Nithya speaks with former Labour Leader Neil Kinnock, ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and the Chancellor of the OU, Martha Lane Fox – exploring how Lee’s ideas and legacy continue to shape education and cultural life today.

Carnegie Pioneers features current Carnegie Education Fund grant recipients as they step into the stories of trailblazing figures funded by the Trust in its early years. Each episode follows one of today