BBC asks long-dead Bob Marley for interview
Monday, April 11, 2005
LONDON, England (AFP): A red-faced BBC has
had to apologise for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican
reggae legend who died 24 years ago. BBC
Three, one of the public broadcaster's digital TV channels, sent an e-mail to
the Bob Marley Foundation saying it wanted to do a documentary about his hit
song "No Woman No Cry". It said the project
would involve Marley -- who died of cancer in May 1981 at the age of 36 --
"spending one or two days with us", and that "it would only work with some
participation from Bob Marley himself". In a
statement, the BBC said: "We are obviously very embarrassed that we didn't
realise that the letter to the Marley Foundation did not acknowledge that Mr
Marley is no longer with us."
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