Irony Alert
Britain's BBC has fired one of its radio presenters because her voice sounded too upper-class at a time when the broadcaster wants more voices of color on the air, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Zenab Ahmed, who describes herself as half Pakistani and half English, said she was removed from her post as a newsreader on BBC radio's World Service because she sounded "too posh." Ahmed says the World Service is on a mission to sound classless. Her accent was described as being associated with a white, middle-class demographic.
The BBC said its decision to cease employing Ms. Ahmed "had nothing to do with her accent."
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