BBC2 censors Uncle Remus racist parts claim fact checked
“BBC2 have shown it but they tend to cut out the most racist parts with Uncle Remus in.”
Summary
There is no current evidence that BBC 2 has aired a program featuring Uncle Remus and edited out its most racist sections. While the BBC has edited racist language in other repeats, such as a Fawlty Towers episode, no reports confirm the specific claim about Uncle Remus.
Sources 57 searched
- Was the BBC right to cut racist language from Fawlty Towers? – poll | Television & radio | theguardian.com
A BBC2 repeat of The Germans cut a line of racist language, but some viewers have complained that the Fawlty Towers episode should have aired in its original form
- Labour's Dawn Butler asks BBC for urgent explanation over N-word Bafta broadcast
Several other incidents of inappropriate language were cut out, but that moment was said to have been missed.
- Racism - BBC News
All the latest content about Racism from the BBC.
- BBC edited another racial slur out of Bafta ceremony
The BBC's chief content officer Kate Phillips says a slur that aired was the result of a genuine error.
- Guidance: Racist Language (including Racial Slurs and Racist/Ethnic Abuse)
Any re-use in another context (for instance at a different time or on a different channel or on On Demand services) would require a new and separate consideration of the editorial justification. This also applies to cut-downs for social media purposes.
- BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 in Four - Five racist myths debunked
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