A historian and author says he is "genuinely dismayed" after a comment about Donald Trump was removed from a lecture he delivered on BBC Radio 4.
Rutger Bregman, who is presenting this year's Reith Lectures, said he included the line in a section discussing US politics, but that it was removed prior to its broadcast.
The Dutch historian wrote on social media that the decision had come "from the highest levels within the BBC".
A BBC spokesperson said the corporation had "made the decision to remove one sentence from the lecture on legal advice". BBC News is not repeating the line in question on the same legal advice.
The US president recently threatened to sue the BBC for up to $5bn over the editing of an episode of Panorama.
