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Lewd phone messages from Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand were a “very serious editorial lapse”, the BBC’s director-general said today.
BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons said the corporation had “crossed a boundary” by broadcasting the messages left on actor Andrew Sachs’s answerphone on Brand’s Radio 2 show.
Facing questions by MPs in a Culture, Media and Sport Committee hearing at the UK's House of Commons, director-general Mark Thompson said: “I am very aware that this was a very serious editorial lapse.
“There were errors in judgment.”
