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He must have been stopped and searched on his way to the studio or passed over for a job. AdamBienkov I feel his pain. Follow us. Terms Privacy Policy. Sir Simon Jenkins: 'I do sometimes feel a bit like what it must have been like to be a black person 20 or 30 years ago'. He said that the BBC's failure to implement its equal opportunities policies was most noticeable at the highest levels.

There were odd people there and only one person who wasn't white. It is not the first time that the director-general has voiced his concern over the ethnic make-up of the corporation: last year, at a Race in the Media conference, he claimed that the task of enlarging the ethnic representation of the BBC was the 'acid test' of his tenure and said that the corporation had a 'moral duty' to reflect the diversity of 21st century Britain.

In tonight's interview, he will pledge to increase the number of BBC employees from ethnic minorities from 8 to 10 per cent of his workforce by But broadcaster Trevor Philips, chair of the London Assembly and a close friend and unofficial adviser to Dyke on race issues, called the target 'absurdly low' for a London-based organisation.