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No sacred cows

Why is a BBC executive calling for the removal of middle-aged white men from television?

1 September 2018

9:00 AM

1 September 2018

9:00 AM

Cassian Harrison, the editor of BBC Four, told the Edinburgh International Television Festival last week that no one wants to watch white men explaining stuff on TV any more. ‘There’s a mode of programming that involves a presenter, usually white, middle-aged and male, standing on a hill and “telling you like it is”,’ he said.

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