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The Daily Telegraph        16.7.2005

 
A warning from the past that the BBC does not want us to hear
By Charles Moore
(Filed: 16/07/2005)

A small news item this week announced that BBC Radio 4 had dropped its dramatisation of John Buchan's Greenmantle from the schedule.
It contained "unsuitable and insensitive material" at this difficult time. A different reaction, you may remember,
from the one the BBC displayed to another of its programmes: Jerry Springer - the Opera.

Quite a lot of Christians complained that the material there was unsuitable and insensitive (Jesus, so far as I recall, was shown as an adult wearing nappies),
but the broadcast went ahead anyway. The BBC said that it would not be dictated to. Faced with potential Muslim anger, its courage is less visible.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/07/16/do1601.xml

 

 

 

 

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