Another day, another BBC blunder. This time it involves Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Breakfast Show this morning, which announced that this week is ‘careers week’. In a call out for contributions, Ball urged listeners to phone in if they feel they have ‘the most obscure job’ and to divulge what their ‘careers officer’ told them at school.
There was one rather large problem with Ball’s request, however. It transpires that it is not, in fact, careers week — but rather carers week. Oh dear.
The correction came to light after a rather panicked jobs adviser texted into today’s show following a frenzied fact-check at home. So much for the Beeb’s much-lauded truth verifiers, eh. A rather sheepish researcher was dressed down later in the programme…
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