BBC to conduct fast-track investigation into broadcasting of racial slur from Baftas

Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage at the Baftas when the slur was heard. Photograph: Stuart Wilson/Getty Images for Bafta

The BBC is to undertake a fast-track investigation into how a racial slur broadcast during its coverage of the Bafta film awards was not edited out, amid rising anger inside the corporation over the error.

Tim Davie, the outgoing director general, has now instructed the corporation’s complaints unit to investigate what the BBC describes as a “serious mistake”.