Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Stuart pops in

The Guardian continues to make the pace on the travails of BBC1's new regional series "We Are England". After last week's pulling of an edition just before transmission, a second episode has been removed from iPlayer, after transmission.  It celebrated the work of a dance school in Cambridge called  Bodyworks, without mentioning that governors had resigned due to safeguarding concerns, and Ofsted had been told that “looking beautiful” was more valued by some staff than talent in the performing arts.

A BBC spokesperson said: “This regional programme focused on a school and its work on student wellbeing. It is no longer available to view online as the episode did not include relevant information and context about the school featured. We have also removed a related online article.”

The Guardian says Stuart Thomas, Head of the Midlands for the BBC, has now been brought in to supervise the rest of the series. One might have thought he'd been keeping an eye on them already. 

 

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