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A glimpse at the WBR office in the 1990s ...

  • Reporter Bill Barnes researching a story in the 1990s
  • The 1990s business unit – full of clutter but also fresh air from windows that opened (unlike today)
  • Reporters Nils Blythe and Jackie Hardgrave sit in front of their 1990s manual typewriters
  • Reporter Mark Gregory starts work in the old Broadcasting House extension block, now demolished
  • First editor of World Business Report, Alan Griffiths, ponders his new creation
  • Reporter Jackie Hardgrave at work in the 1990s with just one computer switched on in the corner
  • Staff duties in the 1990s included a business slot on the World Service news programme “24 Hours”

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