Are you perhaps reading this copy of DIVA with the Paralympics on in the background? In our house, we’ve been loving the summer of sport, gripped by the achievements of Team GB in Rio.
We’re not alone: more than 11 million people watched the competition in the velodrome the night Laura Trott and Jason Kenny both won gold. And that means an awful lot of people were thrilled not only by the performances of our sportsmen and women (more about them later), but spent two and a half weeks glued to television fronted by Clare Balding. Which got me wondering, not for the first time, why is Clare still one of only a handful of gay, bi or trans women with a prominent role on our airwaves?