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World Service,3 mins

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Bangla's 75th anniversary

The Fifth Floor

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Bangla celebrates its 75th birthday this week. For the first years, output was a translated newsletter - often written by then ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ employee Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell. Then in 1944, the first staff members arrived in wartime London. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Bangla's Manoshi Barua takes up the story. (Photo: Rekha Ali and Kamal Bose. Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)

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