Graham Ruddick mentions Tony Hall’s ambition for an equal split of male and female presenters at the BBC by 2020 (BBC gender pay gap may loom large at Edinburgh Television Festival, 21 August).
My plea (backed by a sense of despair at the past promises made and so often broken) is for the BBC to employ at least a few from that large section of our society who are invisible on BBC screens – intelligent, talented women of authority over 65 who happen to have white hair. Where are the female equivalents of John Humphrys, Peter Snow, David and Jonathan Dimbleby, John Simpson and countless other men who work well into their late 70s, all of whom have white hair?
It is nothing but very old-fashioned broadcasting sexism and prejudice that such wonderful women are ignored. It insults a whole segment of society and impoverishes our viewing.
Anna Ford
London
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