Audio slideshow: Recession Road

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BBC News website photographer Phil Coomes and journalist Paula Dear spent four days driving up the A1 from London to Edinburgh and <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/photoblog/2009/09/recession_road_edinburgh.html">blogged the journey</a> .

They talked to the people they met on the way about how they were faring in the recession - as part of <a class="inlineText" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2007/creditcrunch/default.stm">the BBC's coverage of the anniversary of global downturn</a> . It was also a photographic pilgrimage - following in the footsteps of documentary photographer Paul Graham, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/photoblog/2009/09/great_north_road_trip.html">who covered the same route in the 1980s</a> .

Photographed, produced and recorded by Phil Coomes and Paula Dear.Music: Hands Up - I Love You by Madrugada, courtesy Sonybmg.Publication date 18 September 2009.

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Links

<a class="inlineText" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2007/creditcrunch/default.stm">Global recession: Aftershock </a>