But while often seen as a symbol of the BBC’s commitment to diversity, she is, herself, thumpingly posh.

Depending on one's model of liberated consciousness, “enlightenment” may bring about a total perfect saintlihood, or just a release from the usual patterns of craving and suffering.

Boiled beef and carrots, Boiled beef and carrots, That's the stuff for your Derby Kell, Makes you fat and it keeps you well. Don't live like vegetarians On food they give to parrots, Blow out your kite from morn till night On boiled beef and carrots.

Kursaal is a German word for casino, and a cosmopolitan term that became popular in the Belle Epoque.]