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Language on air.

Eddie Mair | 15:46 UK time, Wednesday, 12 August 2009

This is a serious request for your thoughts.

The story today relates to comments he thought he was making in private, but which are now public.

In the recording, he uses the word sh*t. It's not essential to people's understanding of the story that we broadcast it...as you can see from the 91Èȱ¬ News online story, it's possible to convey his meaning without saying it. Yet I know we sometimes get complaints from Radio 4 listeners if we are deemed to have censored swearing without good cause.

Should we use the word on the programme?

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