Huw Edwards: BBC may remove voice from Queen’s funeral and King’s coronation coverage
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/08/03/huw-edwards-bbc-state-occasions-commentary-wiped-soundtrack/
by TheTelegraph
Huw Edwards: BBC may remove voice from Queen’s funeral and King’s coronation coverage
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/08/03/huw-edwards-bbc-state-occasions-commentary-wiped-soundtrack/
by TheTelegraph
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***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
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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
I mean… does the footage really need a commentary track?
But the royal family have a long tradition of being close to nonces.
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…..
He’s Chris Benoit’d some of the biggest moments in recent history.
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.
They might bring him back for Prince Andrew ‘s funeral though
Can’t wait to see him photoshopped out Stalin style courtesy of the ministry of truth.
The Queens funeral is becoming like navigating old episodes of TOTP
Get prince Andrew to dub over it, at least it’ll be the queen nonce and not a random Welsh nonce
Whilst they’re at it, replace Liz Truss with a more dignified PM in all the footage, that makes about as much sense
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.
Performative grovelling after controversy. Waste of time and money. Classic BBC.
Yeah redacting from history is a pointless waste of time
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.
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?
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”
Revising history and altering the archive is very, very scary.
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.
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?
Yeah cos that’ll change history.
BBC
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It’s like that one picture of Stalin that was progressively edited each time someone in it was purged from the party.
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,
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.
Yes because people want to watch that shit again. I know BBC loves showing repeats, but move on.
The BBC loves to cover its tracks!
Leave it in to remind us.
Are they gonna cut Prince Andrew (also a child sex offender) out?
Are BBC going to edit out Prince Andrew too? Bet not…
If that’s what the victims are requesting then it seems reasonable to do so
Replace it with Alan Partridge’s commentary you cowards
Like Martin Tyler re-dubbing the commentary on end of season videos.
So…
In what way would this be any different from getting all fussy when people highlight the slavery connections for various historical figures? History is history. It happened. Let’s talk about it, rather than getting all sensitive when someone you like turns out to be someone you probably shouldn’t.
I’m perfectly happy for the National Trust, for example, to say ‘the person who used to live here made most of the money to buy this house from selling human beings’ if it’s a thing that’s true. I’m happy for the people of Bath, or Bristol or wherever it was to get pretty uncomfortable when it turns out Colson Baker, or whatever his name was, was a gigantic muppet… who was instrumental in them having a hometown.
Sometimes the ‘heroes’ are also very much villains. Why does that have to be taboo?
If you think the right side of the English civil war won it, then go ahead and mention Oliver Cromwell in Dublin. Someone will set you straight… but you know, we still ended up governed by parliament instead of a lone nutcase… for a little while, and then the nutcase came back, and now it’s a bit of a shared thing.
Spend the money they would waste doing this and donate it to a charity, literally any charity
Isn’t a nonce voiceover just one more very good reason to not watch probably the single most boring, monotonous pile of old bollocks ever committed to film?
Leave it as it is, redo the voice, whatever, nobody wants to watch it anyway surely?
I’ve not been following the details of the story with Huw, but my understanding of the case is that he was sent and had explicit images, which although is still very clearly, and rightfully illegal. He wasn’t the one who created the images right? It’s not like Huw was the mastermind behind a criminal ring, creating said images. That would be justification for editing the footage, but this particular case is a lot more subtle for the showing of repeats and so I’m not sure is worth the cost of editing the historic footage.
It’s hard to look back a couple of years but he was seen as a national treasure during the announcement, funeral and coronation. There were people here on Reddit actually calling for him to get a knighthood because of the quality of his broadcasts in this alone.
Dub it over with that annoying AI cheery lady voice.
If they could stop enriching pedophiles that would be better use of my “licence fee” aka tax
I think that’s stupid. Erasing history is exactly where we do not want to go. Keep it, but acknowledge what happened. “History us written by the winners” or whatever the saying is.
Why bother? Do they think we just watch that shit over and over on repeat on iPlayer?
Can’t they just put a sticker over his face in all the footage? Something that says exactly what he is? That way we don’t lose the footage but nobody is unaware in the future!