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Prisoners complain songs are being 'ruined' by DJs at a national jail radio station who edit out swear words
By .telegraph.co.uk - Lexi Finnigan
Published: 08/30/2016

Inmates are complaining about a prison radio station which censors ‘violent’ song lyrics, including hits like Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.

National Prison Radio (NPR) calls itself the “world’s first national radio station for prisoners” and broadcasts tunes, poetry readings and talk shows to the UK’s 85,000 prisoners 24-hours a day.

Shows inmates can listen to include a Breakfast slot called Porridge, which plays pop tunes and features a quiz. There is also The Rock Show, in which prisoners can request their favourite songs to be aired.

But now inmates are accusing the prison system of treating them like children after songs like Bohemian Rhapsody were censored for containing the lines: “Mama, just killed a man, put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he’s dead.”

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