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Radio London,13 Feb 2026,8 mins

200 years of UCL

London Uncovered

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UCL was founded to be a progressive alternative to Oxford and Cambridge, offering higher education to students regardless of their religion or, later, gender. It had the country's first student union - and it's alumni includes Alexander Graham Bell, Baroness Scotland and Ricky Gervais. So what has it achieve in it's first 200 years?

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