BBC recruitment faces 'unconscious bias'

In a bid to recruit more ethnic minorities, staff from the BBC have been sent on a course to tackle “unconscious bias”.

The training comes after the corporation’s Director of News and Current Affairs, James Harding, said he was worried “that we have a tendency to recruit in our own image”.

Harding said that diversity targets for local radio and regional news teams in some cities have been increased because of a determination to “make the BBC more representative of the audiences it serves”.