Now BBC fakes sound of babies crying on quintuplet film

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The five girls, delivered at an Oxford hospital on November 10, are the latest individuals to be drawn into the broadcasting fakery row.

The John Radcliffe Hospital distributed clips of the five babies and their parents, who defied doctors in Moscow who advised they abort some of the foetuses.

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One of the quins, with a respirator, appeared to be crying in the BBC clip

While broadcasters like Sky and ITN ran clips of the footage without the audio, the BBC's footage contains the sound of children crying, even though the babies have respirators in their mouths.

A spokeswoman for the Oxford hospital said: "There was no audio on our clip."

"The BBC must have put it over.

"I thought they weren't supposed to do things like that."

A BBC spokesman said the corporation should have left the footage alone.

He said: "We received the film without sound and on reflection we should have kept it that way."

The sound of babies crying has now been removed from the story for its viewing on the Six O'Clock News.

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Mother tends to one of her newborns

The admission follows a series of broadcasting scandals over authenticity.

ITV was criticised for wrongly claiming the final scene of a documentary showed an Alzheimer's patient dying.

BBC1 Controller Peter Fincham resigned after a promotional tape for a documentary on the Royal Family implied the Queen stormed out of a photoshoot.

Director general Mark Thompson recently called on BBC staff to be as transparent as possible.