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BBC radio show slammed after playing song featuring racial slur live on-air

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BBC radio show has been slammed by furious viewers after it played a song which features a racial slur.The controversial song, Scottish singer Thomas Fraser's cover of the 1940 song The Mississippi Shore, was played by presenter Cerys Matthews, who happily introduced it.It was aired by the 51-year-old radio host at midday and contained racial slur "darkies" on 6 Music.The Welsh star said to listeners before playing the track: "Shall we take a trip, virtually anyway, to the Isle of Burra and it’ll be around 1940s and 1950s and we’ll be sitting in our croft after a busy day working the land or fishing."And we’ll have a reel-to-reel set up in front of us, we’ll pick our guitar up, we’ll press record and we’ll start to sing this."Usually the.

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