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The BBC Begins To Wipe Huw Edwards From Its Archive; UK State Events Will Be “A Problem”


BBC historian Jean Seaton said the huge state events whose TV coverage he helmed will prove a problem.

The BBC is taking urgent measures to remove its former star news presenter Huw Edwards from many hours of archive footage, according to UK press. Prior to his fall from grace, which began with his suspension from the BBC in July 2023, he was one of the Corporation’s highest-profile presenters, given the responsibility of announcing the death of HM Queen Elizabeth in September 2022, and helming the coverage of King Charles’s Coronation and several General Election live events. The BBC previously had to conduct the same process of erasure of veteran radio DJ and presenter Jimmy Savile, whose widespread child abuse was revealed following his death in 2011.

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