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BBC to ‘reflect’ on Muslim Council interview condemned as strikingly hostile

Director general backs statement by Woman’s Hour and invites organisers of open letter to meeting

The director general of the BBC, Tim Davie, has endorsed a statement from Woman’s Hour which says the programme will “reflect” on concerns raised by an interview with Zara Mohammed, the first woman to lead the Muslim Council of Britain.

Earlier this week 200 people, including more than 100 public figures such as the Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi, the Labour MPs Diane Abbott and Naz Shah, and the comedian Deborah Frances-White, signed an open letter to the BBC criticising the “strikingly hostile” interview with Mohammed on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

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