The BBC has issued a short apology for not editing out a racial slur from the BAFTA Film Awards‘ official broadcast (which aired on Sunday after a standard two-hour tape delay) and will now remove that unedited version of the ceremony from the broadcaster’s free streamer, iPlayer. The show is currently not available on the streamer.
While the outburst was not edited out of the show before it went to air and was made available on the streamer, Variety reports that another moment at the event, in which “My Father’s Shadow” filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. accepted his BAFTA Film Award for outstanding debut by a British writer, director, or producer, and ended his speech for a call to “free Palestine,” was.
It was the latest event in a rapidly unfolding incident that began just minutes before the annual show kicked off. John Davidson, a Tourette syndrome campaigner who is…
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