Audio: Former director general John Birt on the birth of BBC.co.uk
Lord Birt tells Radio 4's iPM show about the inception of the the corporation's online service.
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As part of BBC online's tenth birthday celebrations Radio 4's PM has interviewed Lord Birt, who was director general at the time of the launch, about the big changes of a decade ago.
Here he is (courtesy of the show's wonderful new iPM feature)
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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
