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BBC cut Jessica Hynes BAFTA speech about cuts

Published 13:24 11 May 2015 BST

Nooruddean Choudry
BBC cut Jessica Hynes BAFTA speech about cuts

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It's like something out of W1A, but Jessica Hynes' BAFTA acceptance speech lamenting government cuts was cut by the BBC...

The popular actress was accepting an award for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme for her role as Siobhan Sharpe in the aforementioned satire, and took the chance to express her concerns regarding austerity. The televised programme showed Hynes saying: "I am from a single-parent family and my parent was a full-time worker, and I’m really worried about the cuts that are coming." But the Radio Times report that the sentiments were as follows: "I am from a single parent family and my mum was a full time worker to support me and my sister and I'm really worried about the cuts that are coming to state education for people in low income families. "Because I don't think low income means low talent or low imagination or low intelligence," she said Hynes then went on to urge the audience and viewers (who didn't see it) to support the work of Arts Emergency.

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