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The BBC tried to prevent climate sceptics from taking part in a Radio 4 programme about the Met Office. Senior BBC editors discussed the programme before it was made and agreed that it "would not feature challenge to the majority scientific view on climate change", according to a BBC Trust ruling. Quentin Letts, presenter of What's the Point of…the Met Office, broadcast in August, was not informed of the editors' decision. The trust ruled that the programme seriously breached the BBC's editorial guidelines on accuracy and impartiality and ordered that it should be deleted from iPlayer, meaning the public can no longer hear it. Mr Letts said: "It's a bit Orwellian. There's an amateurishness to their sinister attempts to control thought." --Ben Webster, The Times, 5 December 2015https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_letts.jpg