Complaint over news quiz joke
A FORMER teacher has complained to the BBC after its top-rated radio comedy programme The News Quiz broadcast a joke he says was mocking Yorkshire.
William Snowden, a Leeds historian, says he was outraged after panellist Andy Hamilton and chairman Sandi Toksvig swapped quips about Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Bigot-gate gaffe in Rochdale on Friday night's Radio Four programme.
Mr Snowden, 58, said: "Sandi Toksvig said it sounded like a constituency in Yorkshire and he came out with a crack about Bigotshire. I thought it really was outrageous suggesting that everyone in Yorkshire was a bigot and I made a complaint on that basis.
"Perhaps Yorkshire was chosen because there has been a British National Party representation but it is outrageous to suggest that an entire county is bigoted."