Former BBC journalist Danny Shaw has hit out at the broadcaster's "massive mistake" in airing punk rap duo Bob Vylan's Glastonbury performance live.

After encouraging festival-goers to chant "death to the IDF" during their set on Saturday, Avon and Somerset Police have launched a criminal investigation into the set.

In a statement, Culture and Media Secretary Lisa Nandy has said the BBC "failed to uphold its own standards", and has asked "essential questions" of Director General Tim Davie.

Speaking to GB News, Shaw highlighted a "failing of management" at the BBC in allowing a live broadcast of the performance, criticising their "poor oversight" of Bob Vylan.

Danny Shaw took aim at the BBC's handling of Bob Vylan's broadcasted Glastonbury set

Shaw told host Martin Daubney: "I absolutely condemn it, it is disgraceful, and massive mistake for the BBC to take it live in the first place and then not to pull out of it while it was being transmitted.

"I'll be really honest with you, I never heard of Bob Vylan before the weekend, now everyone knows who Bob Vylan are for the the wrong reasons. I think it was a big mistake by the BBC."

Criticising the "lack of understanding" by the BBC, Shaw fumed: "This is about a clear management failing, a failing by senior managers, senior editors. I don't know who was in charge, who had the oversight to make those decisions, but this was a massive failing.

"It's not the first time we've seen a management failing like this and a lack of understanding of what this group were likely to do, and understanding of their background, the statements they've made, their sort of music.

"And all of that, I think, would have led them to make the decision if they had understood that they shouldn't be streaming this duo live, but they made the wrong decision."

Bob Vylan has had their US visas revoked after starting a controversial anti-IDF chant at Glastonbury

Pressed by host Martin Daubney on whether the BBC are practising "pro-Palestine bias" in allowing Bob Vylan to broadcast their chants, Shaw disagreed and reiterated that it is a failing of "management" rather than "bias".

Shaw said: "As someone who spent 31 years working there, I don't see this as an issue of systemic bias.

"I see this as, and I'm afraid I've seen time and time again, this is poor management, poor oversight, lack of grip, and lack of supervision.

"I worked with some brilliant managers, some really good editors who would make bold decisions, where you need to make decisions really quickly on difficult subjects and you need to make the right calls, and then take responsibility if they don't go right. But I'm afraid there are not enough managers like that who are prepared to do that."

He added: "I think they've made some some serious mistakes and some really poor errors of judgment, like the Gaza film, but I believe it's more about a failure to confront substandard performance, poor performance, and bad behaviour."

Shaw told GB News that the broadcaster has made some 'serious mistakes'

Grilled on whether BBC Director-General Tim Davie should resign over the error, Shaw told GB News: "I don't personally think he should get the chop, but someone needs to be held to account. Who was managing that? Who was making the decisions? Who was doing the oversight on Saturday afternoon? That's what I want to know.

"It's the manager or the editor that needs to be held to account for that. I don't want some witch hunt, I don't want some public flogging, I'm just saying that that person needs to be held responsible for the decisions they made, to allow that to go ahead live, and then not to pull from the broadcast."

The BBC said in a statement: "The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves."

Condemning the performance by the duo, Glastonbury chief Emily Eavis said: "We are appalled by the statements made from the West Holts stage by Bob Vylan yesterday.

"Their chants very much crossed a line and we are urgently reminding everyone involved in the production of the festival that there is no place at Glastonbury for antisemitism, hate speech or incitement to violence."