My friend and former colleague Nick Levinson, who has died aged 80, was a pioneering TV producer of Open University (OU) arts programming with the BBC, who helped transform public and academic interest in western art history and architecture.
His work covered a range of subjects from the European Renaissance through to modernism and on to the contemporary art of Africa, India and First Nations Australia. For more than 50 years the inspirational impact of the OU and its public programming has reached into every part of British society, and much of that success was due to the creative talent of the first generation of academics and producers. Nick retained those personal characteristics until he retired in 1998, with 188 OU production credits to his name.
