Mother of God, was Sunday nightâs scheduled showing of Line of Duty âsafeâ? From a cringe-free Irish perspective, the reverence with which the BBC â and other UK broadcasters, but most overtly the BBC â treat even routine morale-boosting statements from Queen Elizabeth is as much a source of curiosity as it is a trigger for despair. Our approaches to official mourning have diverged, too. Mercifully, an RTÃ policy of suspending all programming across services in the event of a taoiseach, president or pope dying while in office and merging its radio stations to play only funereal music has long been abandoned.