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Why shouldn’t BBC staff express opinions?

18 March 2023

9:00 AM

18 March 2023

9:00 AM

There was a kind of peak BBC Radio 4 moment last week when the network put on a play called Bess Loves Porgy. As you might have guessed, this was a rewrite of Porgy and Bess, the twist being that Porgy was a black, disabled grime rap artist in south London.

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