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Next month I will have been working at the Beeb for 25 years. Hard as it is to believe I'm afraid there is hard evidence to prove it.

It all came as a bit of a shock when someone unearthed what must be my first ever TV appearance. It's a back to the 80's retro nightmare.

It was when I was working at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Newcastle. Look And Read - a Schools TV programme - came to film in our newsroom.

. The programme was called .

As well as a dramatic storyline in which a young actor appeared, there was "Wordy", a bizarre character who helped you to spell, and a "reality" sequence centred around the radio station.

We've had great fun identifying all the old radio hands. There's me as a youthful reporter with an unbelievable amount of hair alongside . He also went on to join Look North later in his career. We must have loved our first experience in front of the camera!

As for the others caught on film, the fuzzy quality of the video makes it a little difficult to identify them. Of the few staff old enough to have been around, all deny it's them. Mainly I think because of the dreadful 80's clothing we all wore.

Seeing an old photograph is bad enough. Somehow the moving image just compounds the pain.

The only lesson to draw from this is no matter how on trend you think you are in the fashion stakes. Give it a couple of decades and what you wore will be laughable.

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