BBC’s Cerys bans music by privately educated stars

SOCIAL engineering at the BBC is hitting ludicrous new heights.

BBC Radio 6 Music DJ Cerys Matthews has made the astonishing disclosure that she refuses to play records by pop stars she considers over-privileged.

‘ You have to try to listen to everything and take into consideration where one person has had more of a leg-up than somebody else, and act on it,’ she says.

‘You must take into account who’s had the leg-ups. Because if you’ve been through the public school system, you’ve had so many leg-ups.

‘I think it should be more females, but also more people from workingclass backgrounds and more people from all walks of life.’

So that rules out the likes of Coldplay, whose lead singer, Chris Martin, went to Sherborne, Radiohead (Abingdon) and the Clash’s Joe Strummer (City of London Freemen’s School).

Unfortunately she needs to police her own playlist. Cerys played the Clash earlier this month. Tsk tsk.