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Selling the recession

By Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Updated on 22 February 2009

When everyone's feeling nervous about spending, how do advertisers persuade us to part with our cash?

Every week more and more figures confirm that we're in the grips of long and deep recession. We speak to one of the titans of British advertising, Sir Frank Lowe, and take a look at some of the ads that got us reaching into our pockets in previous recessions.

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