White man 'blacked up' before the watershed on BBC news.

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http://www.lbc.co.uk/survivors-describe-horrific-ordeal-on-ferry-102534

Yes it has actually. There was a programme called 'The Black and White Minstrels Show" and millions of people used to tune in to watch it week after week for years. The BBC would kill for those sorts of ratings today. Not one person seemed to complain about it for years until various white Professional Offence Takers got involved.

That's terrible Taxi but I can't stop laughing.

Tbf, if the BBC had screened two flies crawling up a wall at 7pm on a Saturday evening in 1974, it would've pulled in a million viewers.

Could they not have given him a flannel before appearing on TV ffs !
There are bound to be letters of complaint

did he sing ?

ole man river
he keeps on rolling

While the show started off being broadcast in black-and-white, the show was one of the very first to be shown in colour on BBC2 in 1967.
Cant see point in that it was fine in B & W

my parents liked the blacked up coal miner ... nostalgia is a wonderful thing

I use ointment for my nostalgia.