Apart from removing some stuff about the Prime Minister from Time Trumpet with Armando Iannucci (10.00pm Thursdays, BBC2), the latest casualty would seem to be the new series of a radio comedy called The Franz Kafka Big Band, which has been removed from the schedules after editors (whoever they may be) thought a number of sketches were 'inappropriate'.
You can read the full story here.
The BBC described the show's subject matter as 'bold', but seemingly failed to match them for courage by bottling it at the last minute and pulling the programme.
The problem they seem to have with it is that a number of sketches play on recent world events, religious beliefs, and others apparently poke fun at groups like the Taliban.
But what I would say is this: if you can't poke fun at terrorists and religious fanatics, who can you ridicule?
As usual in circumstances like this, they've played it completely wrong. By pulling the show like they have, they've drawn more attention to it than it probably ever would have gotten just by broadcasting it, and now it looks like if it ever appears on the schedule, it'll be in a rather limp, watered-down form.
This is a huge shame, because from what I've read about it, it sounds fairly hilarious, which would be something of a novelty, as the BBC's usual radio comedy output is about as funny as a weekend in intensive care.
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