Fun at the BBC
Not quite clear on the reason for this blast from the past from the London Times, but it’s worth a chuckle. A piece from today looks back on the distinguished 30-year career of BBC reporter Nicholas Witchell. Back in 1988, Witchell and his co-anchor Sue Lawley were disrupted on-air by three militant lesbians who were protesting Clause 28, a contentious piece of anti-gay legislation. While Lawley continued to read the news, Witchell confronted the protesters and tried to drag off one of the women who had handcuffed herself to a desk. The struggle was caught on-microphone and led to an immortal headline the next day in The Daily Mirror, “Beeb man sits on a lesbian.”
Witchell, the BBC man who ’sat on a lesbian’ [The Times]
