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Antiques Roadshow star recalls staff outrage after BBC bosses revealed they want to appoint new presenters to meet diversity targets

Antiques Roadshow star recalls staff outrage after BBC bosses revealed they want to appoint new presenters to meet diversity targets

Andy McConnell recalled a meeting in which a producer said that the 'BBC hierarchy' wanted to see more presenters who were women, gay or people of colour to meet 'percentage targets'.

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