"We’ve had one day of diversity on Radio 4. Now for the other 364"

Lenny Henry, in The Guardian:

A few months ago, diversity campaigner Simon Albury visited the Today programme and was shocked to find a very male, middle-aged, middle-class production team running things. The only younger person there was the bloke asking if he wanted coffee or tea.

But why did this matter? It mattered because what Simon realised and exposed that day was that the news in Britain comes from one perspective. A perspective that is almost exclusively middle-class, and predominantly male.

So Tuesday morning’s show was a big deal for me. I was guest editor – yes Lenny Henry, the man who used to say “Katanga my friends” – in charge of curating the entire show.

In short, I had a unique opportunity to explore what the news agenda would look like if it came from a more diverse perspective rather than from the narrow point of view of the self-perpetuating metropolitan liberal commentariat.

But I realised that this would mean sacking myself, so I didn't.