[Worzel]

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.

I think that's right. I recall a BBC Look East package the day following the fire and a reporter spoke to one of the camera operators who'd also run out of the building carrying a load of camera equipment. They even showed it all stacked up in the car park.

The fire happened late into the evening as I recall and they were on air at the time but because it was 2001 and viewers/anoraks didn't really have the same tools to rewind output or archive things back then, footage of the evacuation is probably long gone.

Would've been interesting to find out who was actually presenting on air that night as they'd probably remember more.

The main thing was everyone got out safely.