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Listeners slate BBC over decision to have the Archers' Lynda Snell fast for Ramadan in the run up to Lent
Radio 4's The Archers has been branded ' woke ' and 'offensive' for broadcasting a storyline about Ramadan in the run up to the Christian festival of Lent.
In an episode broadcast on Monday 24 February local bed and breakfast owner Lynda, played by Carole Boyd, announced her intention to fast over the upcoming weekend. In an episode broadcast on Monday 24 February local bed and breakfast owner Lynda, played by Carole Boyd, announced her intention to fast over the upcoming weekend Meanwhile, Ann Widdecombe, the former Home Office minister, who is a practising Christian, said: 'I haven't got any objections to a Muslim family moving into Ambridge, but this storyline is just the BBC being achingly politically correct.
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