The BBC has come under fire for cutting the acceptance speech of a Bafta winner who last night criticised the media's coverage of the threat posed to Britain by terrorists.
Adam Curtis, who won the factual series award for BBC2's The Power of Nightmares, used his speech to question newspaper and broadcast reports of last week's ricin trial, which he said had sensationalised the threat of a poison terror attack.
The acceptance speech was removed from BBC1's Bafta coverage when it aired two hours later.
Mr Curtis said he suspected his comments had been cut because they "touched a nerve".
Although he did not name the corporation in his speech, he had singled out the BBC's coverage at another TV awards ceremony two days earlier.
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