BBC Radio 1 will not play the full version of Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead during Sunday's Official Chart show. It's after an online campaign to get the track to number one following the death of Baroness Thatcher.

Ben Cooper, Radio 1's controller, said: "I am not going to play it in full but I will play a clip of it".

The track from the 1930's movie the Wizard of Oz is on course for a top three spot.

"You have very difficult and emotional arguments on both sides of the fence.

"Let's not forget you also have a family that is grieving for a loved one who is yet to be buried." The Radio 1 controller said.

So the decision I have made is that I am not going to play it in full but that I will play a clip of it in a news environment. And when I say a news environment that is a news reader telling you about the fact that this record has reached a certain place in the chart and here is a clip of that track. Ben Cooper BBC Radio 1 controller

A Facebook group was set up back in 2007 encouraging people to get this 52 second song to the top of the charts in the week the former Prime Minister passed away.

Baroness Thatcher died last Monday, aged 87.

As well as tributes paid in her honour, Lady Thatcher's death also sparked protests and some people even threw parties.

Critics accuse Margaret Thatcher of putting millions out of work and not caring about the poor during her time in charge.

Others say she changed the UK for the better by taking Britain's then failing economy and making it successful.

The decision over whether Radio 1 should play the song in full if it is in the top ten this weekend has sparked a huge debate.

Sir Gerald Howarth, Margaret Thatcher's former private secretary said: "If the BBC stoop so low as to broadcast this song, it will offend a great many people."

Tory MP Rob Wilson tweeted: "It should be played she didn't free millions to censor a tiny number of idiots."

For Ben Cooper it was an "incredibly difficult decision to come to". He said: " I think there's a large part of the population that finds it disrespectful but then on the other hand you have a part of society which has decided to demonstrate in this way.

"If I wasn't to play it then I would be seen as banning it and that would bring up issues of freedom of speech and censorship".

The version is credited to the Wizard Of Oz Film Cast and appeared in the 1939 film of the same name.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Radio 1 said: "The Official Chart Show' is a historical and factual account of what the British public has been buying".

The Official Chart Update and the Official Chart Show are both broadcast on BBC Radio 1.

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