In another blunder BBC play 'Oh, what a night' heard during report on Iranian missile attack

• Published date: 16 April 2024
• Author: MAARIV
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

During the technical malfunction, if you can call it that, the intro to the 1979 hit song played on Radio 2's news broadcast at 5 p.m. on Sunday while the IDF spokesman's segment about the attack was being broadcast

Following the malfunction, one of the listeners wondered: "Is this amateur hour on the BBC?"

Listeners told The Sun: "I just thought, 'wow, someone must be having a wind-up here".

"I was gobsmacked, I couldn't believe they could have played that."

"Surely, at a time when everyone is fearing World War 3, we didn't need to hear that."

A BBC spokesperson told MailOnline: "The introduction of the first song to be played on Judi Love's show was played within a part of the Radio 2 news bulletin at 5 p.m. by mistake, and we apologize for the error."

A persistent issue

Sunday's technical glitch is not the first time the BBC has made a mistake since the Israel-Hamas War broke out following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.

In November, the BBC apologized after reporting that Israeli soldiers were "targeting medical teams and...