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The BBC is facing another ageism row after broadcaster Liz Kershaw accused radio station chiefs of sacking her because she is older than 60.
The 63-year-old presenter’s departure from BBC Radio 6 Music looks set to reignite criticism of the corporation’s treatment of older women, after she tweeted: ‘I got sacked from @BBC6Music because they don’t want women over 60.’
Kershaw, who had been with the station for 20 years until her departure in March, was responding to a campaign calling for a parliamentary debate on the way ‘women are being erased from public services and institutions’.
It is the latest controversy to hit the BBC. In 2011 presenter Miriam O’Reilly, then 53, won a case for age discrimination against the corporation after she was dropped from its flagship rural affairs show Countryfile.
The 63-year-old presenter’s departure from BBC Radio 6 Music looks set to reignite criticism of the corporation’s treatment of older women, after she tweeted: ‘I got sacked from @BBC6Music because they don’t want women over 60.’
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