Radio 1 to play edited Fairytale Of New York to avoid offending listeners
msn.com, who recently to "fight the culture wars", accused the BBC of choosing what is and isn't appropriate for listeners' "ignorant little years" in a post on Twitter.The Guardian columnist Owen Jones tweeted that as as a gay person he isn't "bothered" about the track's use of the word "f*****", adding: "It's an epic song."Last year, the BBC defended playing the unedited version of the 1987 song in the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special, where it was belted out by the characters Nessa Jenkins and Uncle Bryn.The show's co-creator Ruth Jones, who plays Nessa, also defended using the song to The Sun.She said the writers have "to remain true to the characters", who may lack "political correctness".Jones did, however, recognise that "it is a different.
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