BBC presenter swears seven times in tense clash with James Cleverly

BBC radio host swears seven times in 60 seconds during live broadcast. Source: BBC Radio 4 Today

Transcript

00:00 There have been a number of times now, recently when things you have said have got you into

00:06 trouble, there was the time it was reported that you had called a government policy 'bat

00:11 s***', there was the personal place you referred to in Parliament as a 's***hole'.

00:14 No I didn't. No, I didn't.

00:16 Place, you did say, didn't you, that it was a place?

00:19 No, no, I absolutely didn't.

00:20 You didn't use the word 's***hole' in Parliament?

00:23 No I didn't.

00:24 So when you were picked up on a microphone, who was talking? Who said the word in Parliament?

00:29 You need to do better research because I've made it very, very clear what I said. I was

00:34 referring to an individual.

00:36 OK, you used the word 's***hole', didn't you?

00:38 Yes I did, but the point is, what you've just accused me of, very, very different and completely

00:44 wrong.

00:45 OK, fine, you did say that a person was a 's***hole', other people heard different

00:51 things but the third thing I was going to say is...

00:53 No, no, no, you can't keep doing that.

00:54 You've just clarified this.

00:55 So in which case, in which case, why did you mean that?

00:58 In which case, why did you make that last comment?

01:00 Other people, other people said they heard 's***hole', you're saying you said 's***',

01:04 fine. The third thing I was going...

01:05 No, the other people can only hear what I said. I know what I said. I... and look...

01:10 And other people heard something else?

01:11 No, they didn't. They couldn't have because I only said one thing.

01:14 OK, I understand.

01:15 That's not how science works.