OFF: The previous message...

[Henderson Keith]

was the truth (Nik really is playing at Burg Herzberg),
But just to acknowledge today's date in some partly relevant way...I just
had to forward this gem.

Grakkl (FAA)

P.S.  Unfortunately, Dr. Marley wasn't born on Gallifrey and therefore
cannot regenerate himself.

BBC asks long-dead Bob Marley for interview

LONDON (AFP) - A red-faced BBC 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".

In a statement, the BBC said: "We are obviously very embarrassed that we
didn't realise that the letter to the Marley Foundation did not acknowledge
that Mr Marley is no longer with us."

Marley would have been 60 last February 6, a date that was celebrated with
great fanfare by his legion of fans worldwide.

A BBC press officer, contacted by AFP in London on Friday, confirmed that
the gaffe was not an April Fool's joke.