BBC wastes millions on bizarre schemes like staff webinar on how to drink water

THE BBC is wasting millions a year on woke and bizarre schemes you could find in its sitcom W1A.

It comes as bosses are threatening cuts over the TV licence fee’s two-year freeze.

W1A, which ran from 2014 to 2017, poked fun at Beeb execs over weird ideas.

But a Sun on Sunday probe found real examples such as £12million of the existing Radio and Music budget being spent over three years on “diverse and inclusive content”.

The Beeb’s part-time diversity champion, meanwhile, gets £267,000 a year for working only a three-day week.

The Children in Need department in Manchester and BBC Studios both recently advertised for a Diversity and Inclusion lead.

And an advert for an £80,000-a-year Radio 3 commissioning editor ­required applicants “to lead on diversity and inclusion strategy”.

Sources say cash is being wasted on woke podcasts and “patronising” projects such as a staff webinar on how to drink water and a workshop which told managers to keep up blood sugar levels.

The BBC’s £525,000-a-year Director General Tim Davie, 54, has been urged to cut the woke and diversity agenda to save cash.

Tory MP Nigel Mills said: “This is like an episode of W1A. They need a thorough audit of waste — starting with this woke nonsense.”