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Old 06-02-2008, 04:59 PM posted to uk.politics.misc,uk.media.tv.misc,uk.media.radio.bbc-r4,uk.rec.gardening
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Default BBC apologises for 'offensive' Gardeners' Question Time debate

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:41:17 GMT, "Ivan"
wrote:


"abelard" wrote in message
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:29:18 -0800 (PST), "nowarforisrael.com"
wrote:

Yesterday the BBC made an embarrassing apology after a debate about a
plant known as a "black man's willy" aired on Gardeners' Question
Time.



good to see them apologising for a program the was being
fussed about several months ago....
http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Somerse...y-18th-October

It would appear that (on my computer at least) Usenet has thrown some kind
of fit today, as it's suddenly started to regurgitate long forgotten posts
from months ago in a big way.


more joys of the modern world....

believe nothing the fossil media say


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