John Davidson: BBC should have ‘worked harder’ on stopping Bafta racial slur

'From the lack of response from the early presenters to my tics, and with no one turning around to look at me, I assumed, like everyone else, that I could not be heard on the stage'

John Davidson: 'Bafta had made us all aware that any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast.'

The campaigner whose Tourette's syndrome caused him to shout out during the Bafta film awards said the BBC should have “worked harder” to ensure his racial slur was not broadcast.

John Davidson told US entertainment magazine Variety that he “had an expectation that the BBC would physically control the sound” at the event on Sunday evening.