BBC removes Roisin Murphy from radio line-up weeks after puberty blockers row
Radio 6 music was set to broadcast five hours of Murphy’s songs, interviews and concert highlights next week
The BBC has removed singer Roisin Murphy from a scheduled programme, just weeks after the Irish singer faced online backlash for her views on puberty blockers.
Radio 6 music was set to broadcast five hours of Murphy’s songs, interviews and concert highlights next week, as part of the 6 Music Artist Collection, which celebrates the music and careers of artists and explores their influences and who they have inspired.
Murphy is internationally known for a remix of Sing It Back, released in 1999 with Mark Brydon as part of the electronic music duo Moloko.
The scheduled set was expected to be aired between midnight and 5am on Monday, and repeated at the same time on Tuesday.
However, Murphy has been replaced by rapper Little Simz. The BBC said the decision was taken so that Little Simz’s work could reflect poetry, rap and spoken word programming the following week, and insisted it was not impacted by Murphy’s views on transgender issues.
It comes after Murphy, 50, was
bombarded with abuse online last month when a post on her private Facebook page about puberty blockers was shared.
‘Social-media fire and brimstone’
“Puberty blockers are f---ing, absolutely desolate, big pharma laughing all the way to the bank,” she wrote. “Little mixed-up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that’s just true.
