The BBC has been accused of 'extraordinary' censorship by a leading playwright after dialogue was cut from her hard-hitting drama in case it offended Muslims. Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, whose 2004 play Behzti was pulled from a Birmingham theatre after it sparked Sikh protests, says the Corporation tampered with her work because it involved an honour killing. Ms Bhatti was commissioned by Radio 4 to write an episode of its police drama Stone. Her episode, The Heart of Darkness, will be broadcast this Friday, but she says the BBC has caused an 'awful situation' which has led to a 'betrayal' of her work.
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Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's episode of DCI Stone is to be broadcast on Radio 4
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Dialogue linked to honour killing removed in 'betrayal' because of 'fear-ridden culture', she says
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BBC admit cutting words 'potentially misrepresenting majority British Muslim attitudes to honour killing'
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She received death threats after her 2004 play Behzti offended Sikhs
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