Former UK official: BBC failed its duty at Glastonbury

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00:00The BBC's apologised, particularly for its handling of the live stream of the Glastonbury Music Festival.

00:07What's your view on how they've handled all of this?

00:11This has been an appalling dereliction of duty from the BBC.

00:16They could clearly see this problem coming because the question of whether the band Kneecap were going to play

00:25and if they did, what the BBC's attitude towards it had been going on for weeks.

00:32So it's truly extraordinary that they didn't have the systems and or the judgement in place

00:40to pull the feed from this band Bob Villain

00:49as soon as the totally unacceptable, potentially criminal incitement comments started to be made.