[Orry Verducci]

It's always good practice to have a back up of digital data off site, that would include stuff like those recordings, as well as their presentation graphics.

Except there wasn't any data off site, not to mention video was played from tape back then.

As I recall from colleagues who were around during the fire, one of them quickly grabbed as many tapes as they could and ran out of the building with them. I think some also survived the fire.

I may not have this exactly right, but I recall them saying that for a period they were running tapes up and down the A1 to get content on air from one of NTL's (now Arqiva) facilities.