BBC radio phone-in silences the elderly
, according to a startling article by Stewart Payne in today’s Daily Telegraph: …a leaked memo revealed that phone-in presenters on a local radio station have been barred from allowing callers who sound old on air. Mia Costello, managing editor of BBC Radio Solent, told her broadcasters: “I don’t want to hear really elderly voices.” She instructed presenters to appeal to an imaginary couple she called “Dave and Sue”, who … Continue reading