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There's nothing like a Daily Mail campaign against the BBC for early morning entertainment. Friday morning's splash is predictable enough, devoted to the BBC's plans to play that 1930s Wizard of Oz track that has been appropriated, shock horror, by "Left wing agitators" as an anti-Thatcher anthem. Insiders have confirmed (well to the Guardian on Thursday) that they are highly likely to play Ding Dong the Witch is Dead if it stays in the upper echelons of the charts on Sunday. Roll out John Whittingdale, Tory MP and normally a tolerant man. "Sometimes the BBC has taken the decision not to play a record because it is offensive, such as the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen, but that is a matter for the director general who will be appearing before my committee in two weeks". Tony Hall, you naughty schoolboy. You have been warned.There's nothing like a Daily Mail campaign against the BBC for early morning entertainment. Friday morning's splash is predictable enough, devoted to the BBC's plans to play that 1930s Wizard of Oz track that has been appropriated, shock horror, by "Left wing agitators" as an anti-Thatcher anthem. Insiders have confirmed (well to the Guardian on Thursday) that they are highly likely to play Ding Dong the Witch is Dead if it stays in the upper echelons of the charts on Sunday. Roll out John Whittingdale, Tory MP and normally a tolerant man. "Sometimes the BBC has taken the decision not to play a record because it is offensive, such as the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen, but that is a matter for the director general who will be appearing before my committee in two weeks". Tony Hall, you naughty schoolboy. You have been warned.
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