Update to this story.

LONDON (AP) — A 70-year-old song is giving the BBC a headache.

The radio and television broadcaster has agonized over whether to play “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead,” a tune from “The Wizard of Oz” that is being driven up the charts by opponents of Margaret Thatcher as a mocking memorial to the late British prime minister.

A compromise announced Friday — the BBC will play part of “Ding Dong!” but not the whole song on its chart-countdown radio show — is unlikely to end the recriminations

This is not the first time Britain’s national broadcaster, which is nicknamed “Auntie” for its “we-know-what’s-good-for-you” attitude, has been caught in a bind about whether to ban a song on grounds of language, politics or taste.