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February 23, 2009

Tessa Dunlop claims sexual discrimination against BBC

By Dominic wireposts

RTS-award winnning BBC journalist Tessa Dunlop has accused the corporation of sexual discrimination after sacking her two weeks after her first child was born, the Daily Mail reports.

She was working freelance on BBC1 show History Hunters, the Mail report states. Dunlop won an RTS award in 2005 for her work on BBC regional magazine programme Inside Out West.

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