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Fearless

(18,421 posts)
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 12:48 PM Apr 2013

BBC chief refuses to ban Margaret Thatcher death song

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, a song from the Wizard of Oz, has sold 20,000 copies this week after anti-Thatcher campaigners encouraged people to buy it to celebrate the death of the former Prime Minister.

It is currently number four and on course for a place in the top five by the time The Official Chart Show airs on Sunday, three days before Lady Thatcher’s funeral.

The decision on whether to broadcast the song is the first test for new Director-General Lord Hall, who started in the £450,000-a-year post last week.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9988527/BBC-chief-refuses-to-ban-Margaret-Thatcher-death-song.html

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Essentially as a part of the "tribute" to her, Radio 1 is going to play a list of top ten songs for the event. Ding Dong the Witch is Dead currently the top song on the list.

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BBC chief refuses to ban Margaret Thatcher death song (Original Post) Fearless Apr 2013 OP
Good...knr joeybee12 Apr 2013 #1
But neither are they going to play the whole 51 seconds of it muriel_volestrangler Apr 2013 #2
BBC are erratic. dipsydoodle Apr 2013 #3
It deserves to be played as part of the countdown, especially if it makes the Top 5. reformist2 Apr 2013 #4

muriel_volestrangler

(101,154 posts)
2. But neither are they going to play the whole 51 seconds of it
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 01:00 PM
Apr 2013

(which will make it the shortest ever number one, if it's there for the whole week's figures).

he Wizard of Oz song at the centre of an anti-Margaret Thatcher campaign will not be played in full on the Official Chart Show.

Instead a five-second clip of the 51-second song will be aired as part of a Newsbeat report, Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21241791

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
3. BBC are erratic.
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 01:04 PM
Apr 2013

BBC Radio 1 digitally removed "cheap lousy faggot" from Fairytale of New York when it was released but their Radio 2 didn't. Shortly later Radio 1 put the words back in.

In this case they going to play 4 seconds of the track. Quite why those who've downloaded it need to hear it on the radio defeats me.

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