An unsuccessful media graduate, 26, accused the BBC of flouting their own anti-discrimination rules by not granting him an interview based on his white ethnicity.

"It's racial discrimination to disregard someone based on them being any race. Coming from the BBC, it's amazing.

"If you applied for a position and got a reply saying it was only open to white applicants you would quite rightly not be happy. This is exactly the same.

"Opportunities like this hardly ever come up. Of course there was no guarantee I would have got the job, but to be told I wasn't even allowed to apply because of the colour of my skin was appalling.

"Of course, diversity is incredibly important and I am wholly against any form of discrimination - which is why I don't understand why the BBC think they can get away with this.