Filmmaker, author, podcaster and YouTuber Andrew Gold has opened up on the reality of working for the BBC having been told he couldn't present his own show because he was a "white man". Speaking exclusively to JJ Anisiobi on the Daily Expresso podcast the multilingual Gold, 36, confessed he had wanted to be the next Louis Theroux but in different languages, However his ambitions came asunder when the BBC presented him with their criteria for his documentaries.

"I wanted a serious job and so I went abroad and I thought I'll be [like Louis with] these different languages... making...independent movies, documentaries. And did all that [and] got got one out on the BBC eventually, but then was told, because you're a white man, we can't have you fronting these anymore," he said. "In the end, it was... five years of them saying, 'Oh, great idea... we'll take this... we'll take that... but we need a minority to be the guy fronting it."

What made the situation even more infuriating is that Gold is a member of the Jewish community, which is considered a minority - his family name was changed from Goldstein by his father.

"I said that once," he acknowledged. "And I think people who considered that Jews might be overrepresented, or at least represented enough on TV, were very angry at me even suggesting that.

"But that's, that's when you're in a difficult position, because you don't want to ever get a job because of your thing.

"But then if you look at the stats they don't have stats on the Jews, really. But you know, black people, Asian people and so on, were at that time, already very heavily overrepresented on TV," he said.

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He subsequently stopped doing mainstream work and currently presents a popular podcast called Heretics.

Each edition features conversations with people who have challenged mainstream narratives or "expected scripts," ranging from cult defectors and politicians to celebrities and controversial thinkers.

Explaining how it came about, he said: "I've got five years [where] I've been told, because you're a white man, you can't have this job.

"All of the moments where before I might have gone, 'Oh no, those guys who don't like the BBC are racists,'or whatever I [now] felt like, maybe I'll listen to a few of them, see what they have to say."