Bob Marley Interview Bid Embarrasses BBC

A red-faced BBC has apologised 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. A BBC press officer, contacted by AFP in London on Friday, confirmed that the gaffe was not an April Fool’s joke — via BoingBoing