See you, Miranda ...

THE chief of the BBC’S creative diversity department, Miranda Wayland, stated that in the programme Luther, the lead character doesn’t feel authentic as he doesn’t have black friends or eat Jamaican food (“Diversity chief ‘has Luther doubts’”, The

Herald, April 15). Does she expect Luther to wear Rasta headgear, speak in the Caribbean patois and play reggae music in his car on the way to cases? Thank goodness that same line wasn’t taken with Taggart all those years ago.

As it happens, I don’t wear a kilt, have a badger’s head purse hanging off my belt, no Mc/mac in my name, and nor do I eat haggis, so I do not comply with my stereotype either. Nor should I ever hope to get a part in any future BBC programme vetted by that department. I would admit, though, to owning a couple of Jimmy bunnets if that would help me on my way to stardom.

George Dale,

Beith.