The BBC is sliding even further down the ranks of an unbiased broadcaster, says Nana Akua

The BBC, aka auntie, our publicly funded broadcaster, is up to her old tricks again and is now facing allegations of bias. Apparently Nigel Farage has been banned from appearing on Desert Island Discs, an 84-year-old show that has featured Sir Keir Starmer and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, but not Nigel Farage. What a surprise.According to a new biography, written by the Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft, the Reform UK leader will never be invited on to the show because his presence would make staff feel unsafe. Talk about woke overdrive? Program makers were apparently worried that others would boycott the show if Nigel Farage was featured. Really? TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Now I’ve never really sat down and listened to a full Desert Island Discs, a tired old show with a simple format, frankly because I’m too busy.But basically celebrities, politicians, historians and people of interest choose their favourite songs that they would like to listen too if deserted on a desert island. It’s very simple.Lord Ashcroft quotes a BBC source as saying that Mr Farage has effectively been blacklisted from the show.The source said: Farage is regarded instinctively by many BBC staff as unacceptable. At least half the staff would think Radio 4 had become an unsafe space if he was on Desert Island Discs. Nothing would be written down, it’s just classic liberal-Left BBC.The BBC hit back, saying: We do not ban any individuals from appearing on Desert Island Discs and that includes Mr Farage.But this month when Nigel’s team asked if he qualified to appear on Lauren Laverne’s show on Radio 4, they say they were told: As we are now well into production on our latest series, we’re not currently looking for new castaways.When making decisions about the very few active politicians we have on the programme, we make the bookings over quite a long time period ensuring a range of voices.The BBC added it would stay in touch and revisit Nigel’s interest for a future series.We shall see, but it seems unfortunately for the likes of Nigel, Auntie has her favourites and his name's not down, so he’s not coming in, not on that show anyway. Despite the BBC being our publicly funded broadcaster requiring to be unbiased, whose licence fee has a jail term if not paid, it would appear that the corporation is still ideologically captured. I’m pretty sure there is no way that I as an ex-BBC person, now on GB News, would ever get a look in on a show like Strictly, because I’m the wrong kind of black.Unfortunately the BBC is sliding even further down the ranks of an unbiased broadcaster. If there is any further to fall, which is why in my view, so many refuse to pay the license fee. Not something I would encourage of course, just an observation. If only auntie would listen. Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter