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| A Yorkshireman |
Many people were taken aback by the appointment of Chris Mason to replace the younger Dimbleby as host of Any Questions?
People were expecting a 'diverse' person to be appointed.
People were expecting a 'diverse' person to be appointed.
A headline at The Conservative Woman summed it up: White man gets BBC job. What went wrong?
If. however, you thought this was a rare example of the BBC not following its 'diversity'/'identity' obsession, you were a bit premature. Today's Times interview with Radio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya confirms that The Great Chris Mason (™ Andrew Marr) wasn't just chosen on merit. He was chosen because of his Northern accent:
One of the reasons I put Chris Mason in on Any Questions was just to start to see if we could get more voices from around the UK on the network.
