{"id":34776,"date":"2020-10-13T14:57:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=34776"},"modified":"2020-10-13T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:57:47","slug":"daily-mail-a-bit-of-a-brum-do-for-pop-star-toyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/daily-mail-a-bit-of-a-brum-do-for-pop-star-toyah\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Mail: A Bit Of A Brum Do For Pop Star Toyah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-8833085\/SEBASTIAN-SHAKESPEARE-Locals-battle-Duke-Marlborough-Churchill-estate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-8833085\/SEBASTIAN-SHAKESPEARE-Locals-battle-Duke-Marlborough-Churchill-estate.html noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-28318 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dmail18a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><strong>BBC&#8217;s warning is a bit of a Brum do for pop star Toyah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Singer Toyah Willcox, who had a hit in the Eighties with It&#8217;s A Mystery, is baffled as to why the BBC slapped a warning on episodes of Brum, the harmless BBC children&#8217;s show she narrated.<\/p>\n<p>A notice on iPlayer repeats told viewers the series may reflect out-of-date &#8216;language and attitudes of the Nineties&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The flame-haired singer tells me: &#8216;I can&#8217;t think why they did that. Was it because of the Birmingham accent? Is it sexist in some way? I&#8217;m sure we never impersonated a black person.&#8217; Toyah adds: &#8216;I always refused to do anything if it was offensive. Brum was written by Anne Wood who made Teletubbies and she was on top of all that sort of thing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The BBC says the notice was added in &#8216;error&#8217; and has been removed from Brum episodes. Perhaps it is the BBC, with its determination to censor TV classics, that is out of touch with today&#8217;s audiences?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-8833085\/SEBASTIAN-SHAKESPEARE-Locals-battle-Duke-Marlborough-Churchill-estate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a>. (Photo \u00a9 Clark Enwell\/BackGrid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC&#8217;s warning is a bit of a Brum do for pop star Toyah Singer Toyah Willcox, who had a hit in the Eighties with It&#8217;s A Mystery, is baffled as to why the BBC slapped a warning on episodes of Brum, the harmless BBC children&#8217;s show she narrated. A notice on iPlayer repeats told viewers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[313,2377,683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34778,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34776\/revisions\/34778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}