Countryfile isn’t the kind of show you’d normally associate with controversy, but, according to the Daily Mail, that’s just what has happened. The BBC series was filming in Northern Ireland and interviewed blacksmith Barney Devlin, 96, about being the inspiration behind a Nobel laureate’s poem The Forge. When the interview was brodcast, the Beeb had put subtitles on to help viewers understand his accent. This, perhaps not surprisingly, hasn’t gone down well, with MPs asking why subtitles aren’t used for other regions of the UK and accusing the Beeb of being patronising. Monkey can kind of see their point.
