If the BBC wants to give people from less advantaged backgrounds more opportunities, it starts by making *REAL CONTRACTS* available to them. My first four years at the BBC were spent not knowing if I had work one month to the next. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8817291/BBC-boss-Tim-Davie-says-corporations-obsession-Oxbridge-end.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...

For working class people, the way the BBC treats employment status presents an unacceptable level of risk and closes the door. Only possible for me at first as parents& #39; lived close to London, and my Dad& #39;s job on the tube gave me heavily discounted rail fares.

Even later in my career there I joked that my contract was treated like that of an aging goalkeeper, propped up a year at a time so long as I was still standing and was a safe pair of hands. Stunts growth, salary, pension-- everything. Sort it.