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    Huw Edwards: BBC may remove voice from Queen’s funeral and King’s coronation coverage

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    1. TheTelegraph on

      ***The Telegraph reports:***

      Disgraced Huw Edwards’ voice may be wiped from BBC footage of royal events after the presenter admitted possessing indecent images of children, sources have suggested.

      The news anchor’s sombre announcement of the death of Elizabeth II in 2022 remains on the BBC iPlayer. Edwards, 62, also provided expert commentary on state occasions that include the late Queen’s funeral and the coronation of King Charles III.

      Insiders have claimed that material for which Edwards provided the commentary may be re-recorded to provide a new soundtrack.

      Sources have also said that footage featuring Edwards will not be used in future programming, and his documentaries will remain banned from iPlayer and terrestrial repeats.

      Should BBC programme makers wish to use footage of major royal events, perhaps for documentaries, they will likely have to use altered recordings or simply steer clear of original Edwards material that cannot be edited, insiders added.

      One source said that, as much as possible, Edwards material will be “pulled from archival circulation”.

      There may be exceptions, it has been claimed, when programme makers “view something as social history”, and wish to show a true reflection of events as they were reported at the time.

      The process of wiping Edwards’s presence on BBC platforms has already begun following his admission on July 31 of possession of 41 indecent images of children.

      It emerged on Friday that an episode of Doctor Who featuring him had been removed from iPlayer.

      The former News at 10 host played himself in a voice role for a 2005 episode of the science fiction series starring Billie Piper and David Tennant.

      He can be heard providing background commentary on supernatural events during a storyline based on the 2012 Olympics, delivering lines including:  “The crowd has vanished! Er, they’re gone. Everyone has gone. Thousands of people have just gone. Right in front of my eyes.”

      The star had numerous TV and film credits to his name, playing himself in Casualty, Psychoville and the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig.

      He was, however, best known for providing the BBC’s commentary for state occasions.

      The King’s coronation, for which he provided expert narration, was watched by an average of 18 million viewers in the UK, according to BBC figures

      **Full story:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/08/03/huw-edwards-bbc-state-occasions-commentary-wiped-soundtrack/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/08/03/huw-edwards-bbc-state-occasions-commentary-wiped-soundtrack/)

    2. WhatTheMack on

      When people talk about bloat in the public finances, this is it.

      The BBC middle managers think people are literally unable to tell the past from the future and so busy themselves with this shite

    5. Optimism_Deficit on

      If we’re editing history to remove people we don’t like, can we cut Liz Truss out of the funeral as well?

      In all seriousness, I can understand why the BBC feels the need to do this, but it’s awkward. The Queen’s death was a major event, the BBC coverage and commentary of it is part of the historical record of those events.

      Going back and editing that record makes me uncomfortable, even if there is an obvious reason for doing it.

      Ffs. Why couldn’t he have just not been a nonce…..

    7. Popeychops on

      Getting silly now. He’s going to be sentenced in court for his crimes, we don’t need to scrub away all his prior work in order to feel clean.

    9. BananaHammock1757 on

      Can’t wait to see him photoshopped out Stalin style courtesy of the ministry of truth.

    11. antebyotiks on

      Get prince Andrew to dub over it, at least it’ll be the queen nonce and not a random Welsh nonce

    12. pikantnasuka on

      Whilst they’re at it, replace Liz Truss with a more dignified PM in all the footage, that makes about as much sense

    13. reckless-rogboy on

      The BBC are only doing this to spare themselves embarrassment. They erase these artifacts and conveniently the fact that they were quite happy to idolize people like Edwards.

    16. bob4041 on

      That’s rich. Several members of the royal family are pedos including Andrew and Lord Mountbatten. Charles was bffs with Seville and wrote a letter of support to Kevin Spacey. Don’t allow them to rewrite history now. The BRF don’t have a problem associating with and protecting pedos.

    17. blue_rizla on

      What if they just don’t instead?

      Yeah, don’t give him a parade or something. Other than that, what actually is the problem with just not removing Huw Edwards’ voice?

    18. Jockey79 on

      The **Ministry of Truth** ([Newspeak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak): **Minitrue**) is the [ministry of propaganda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_propaganda). As with the other ministries in the novel, the name *Ministry of Truth* is a deliberate misnomer because in reality, it serves the opposite: It is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events.

      [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-Four](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-Four)

      From now on, I’ll call the BBC “Minitrue”

    20. Lumigo on

      Just fucking leave it and move on from him, this obsession with going back and removing things, censoring things, covering them up like they didn’t happen, all nonsense.

    21. CosmicBonobo on

      I may be being naive, but are there people still out there who watch the funeral and coronation regular enough for this to be justified?

    22. Pandaisblue on

      It’s like that one picture of Stalin that was progressively edited each time someone in it was purged from the party.

    23. ShrewdPolitics on

      i was just watching it this morning as i have every sunday since she past, i was thinking the same thing.

      of course not, nobody cares it doesnt matter,

    24. Zerosix_K on

      Surely this will just create a Streisand effect. People will pay more attention to the historic revisionism and thus put more focus on Huw, than if they simply left it alone.

    25. likely-high on

      Yes because people want to watch that shit again. I know BBC loves showing repeats, but move on.

    29. theabominablewonder on

      If that’s what the victims are requesting then it seems reasonable to do so