article_snippet.sent: four years after a producer said the programme 'wouldn't work' with ethnic minority characters.
article_snippet.sent: In 2011, executive producer Brian True-May described the TV show as the 'last bastion of Englishness' because the TV show had no black or Asian characters.
article_snippet.sent: Gwilym Lee, Manjinder Virk and Neil Dudgeon (pictured left to right) said the TV showwouldn't work' if there was racial diversity among the TV show cast.
article_snippet.sent: Mr True-May said at the time the programme just doesn't 'have ethnic minorities involved.
article_snippet.sent: Executive producer Brian True-May (left) described the TV show as the 'last bastion of Englishness' in 2011 because the TV show had no black or Asian characters, pictured with John Nettles . '
highlights_snippet.sent: It is four years since a producer said it was 'the last bastion of Englishness'
  Brian True-May said show 'wouldn't work' with ethnic minority characters .
  