[quote]The Wizard of Oz song at the centre of an anti-Margaret Thatcher campaign will not be played in full on the Official Chart Show. Instead a five-second clip of the 51-second song will be aired as part of a Newsbeat report, Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper said. Sales of Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead have soared since the former Prime Minister's death on Monday, aged 87. Mr Cooper called the decision "a difficult compromise". "When I say a news environment, that is a newsreader telling you about the fact that this record has reached a certain place in the chart and here is a clip of that track. "Let's not forget you also have a family that is grieving for a loved one who is yet to be buried." "Nobody at Radio 1 wishes to cause offence but nor do I believe that we can ignore the song in the chart show," he wrote. Continue reading the main story [quote] It's the chart, the market has spoken - it's a free speech issue and there's no middle-ground. Part of being in a democracy is that you listen to opposing voices.”[/quote] "To ban the record from our airwaves completely would risk giving the campaign the oxygen of further publicity and might inflame an already delicate situation." [/quote] So people downloaded the song to celebrate MT's death and of course the BBC didn't really want to play it on the chart show. However they value freedom of speech and will play it but in a different way in an effort to not offend the family of Marggie and to keep the promise to play it. What do you think?