BBC Says No To Seven Jewish Children

“In a move likely to resurrect the row over the BBC’s refusal in January to broadcast the appeal to help the people of Gaza, Radio 4 rejected an unsolicited manuscript of [Caryl Churchill’s] play, Seven Jewish Children, which recently finished a short run at the Royal Court theatre.” The deciding factors, sources say: the controversial nature of the play “and the fact that the BBC has only recently survived the onslaught of criticism for its refusal to broadcast the Gaza appeal.”