Thank you for your patience while we’ve looked into all of this.
As we said on Monday, the clip on YouTube is from an episode of Take It Or Leave It from over two years ago.
We want you to understand that we do not want to take sides in any international disagreement – contrary to lots of the opinions that have been put to us via email and in the web forums. To be totally clear: we're not trying to promote a cause, or stir up any trouble. We're just an entertainment channel.
We do recognise the importance of conducting quizzes fairly though, which is why we’ve gone back and checked our paperwork.
On the question itself, we have looked back at the records, and we are happy that the question and answer were fair and accurate. As usual, we checked this with two trusted sources.
However, one of the main issues you’ve raised is the use of the flag of FYROM to illustrate the question and answer. Having heard many of your arguments on this, and having looked into it ourselves, we can see that this was inaccurate, and confusing for the audience. We unreservedly apologise for any offence that has been caused - that was certainly not our intention.
It is very obvious that this particular question is about ancient history, not modern-day Europe. Using modern day flags is therefore inappropriate, so we’re going to re-edit this particular episode so that the flags are not shown again.
We hope that this goes a long way to addressing people’s concerns, and completely removes any suggestion that we’re making some kind of political statement. We’re sorry to have got this wrong.
With best wishes,
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