The BBC is doing damage control following the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, Feb, 22, where a now-viral moment has led the network to issue an apology. Source: Stuart Wilson/BAFTA / Getty The UK's national public service broadcaster is being heavily criticized for not editing out a racial slur from the BAFTA's tape-delayed broadcast over the weekend, and now says it will remove the incident from the version of the ceremony on iPlayer. The outburst came from John Davidson, a Tourette syndrome campaigner seated in the audience; He is the subject of the biopic, I Swear.