F-bomb Update

Further to my post yesterday, the following article just appeared on the Telegraph website:

BBC sorry for four-letter Radio 5 Live gaffe
The BBC has been forced to apologise after a member of staff delivered a four-letter tirade without realising he was being broadcast live on Radio 5 Live.
Thousands of listeners heard the unnamed producer swearing at a jazz music recording.
The incident happened on the early morning programme Morning Reports on Radio 5 Live on Saturday. At 5.42am, during a sports round up, listeners heard the unidentified voice say “f****** trumpet”.
The speaker continued: “It drives you mad that f****** Stanley Clarke.”
It appears the producer was listening to a recording by Stanley Clarke, an American jazz musician and composer, and was unaware that his own voice was being broadcast.

So it wasn’t Cornelius Lysaght, then. Still pretty funny.

Update. I have audio!


(The YouTube script should read October 3, not October 4.)

(Thanks Radiofail).

I may be wrong, but it sounds like Cornelius Lysaght to me. What do others think? Has the BBC lied about this, blaming it on an unnamed producer?

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6 Responses to F-bomb Update

  1. Biodegradable says:

    Maybe if the BBC was more like the Onion we’d have less to complain about  :-E

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  2. piggy kosher says:

    I like Stanley Clarke

    Sack the ignorant C**

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  3. Martin says:

    That person could have been saying what we think of the BBC.

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  4. Biodegradable says:

    Wasn’t this a BBC production?

    Wasn’ the F word first spoken on the airwaves by somebody on That Was The Week That Was – a BBC production?

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  5. Biodegradable says:

    And f**k this new commenting system that doesn’t have preview, nor does it allow my spellchecker to do its thing!

    Sorry David, a few pints of Guiness and a half bottle of Laphroig are doing their thing. (Laphroig’s all I have. I know it should be Jameson really 😉 )

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