The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has removed the controversial host of a Sunday arts program two weeks after she had a heated on-air exchange with British playwright Steven Berkoff. “Less than a minute into the exchange, things became tense when Razer addressed Berkoff as ‘dear’. He told her he had trouble understanding her accent. Razer then called the playwright a ‘curmudgeon’ and a ‘pugilist’, before abruptly terminating the interview.”