MPs have come to blows with the BBC following the publication of the corporation's annual report.

During a Commons culture select committee hearing, Labour MP Chris Bryant was asked to apologise for comparing the BBC's accounts with those of failed energy company Enron.

"I thought it was disgraceful, the use of the word Enron," said the corporation's director general, Greg Dyke.

In the report, the governors expressed disappointment that ethnic audiences for radio and television had fallen.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, said last night: "They have got to stop thinking of minority communities as a separate, marginal bunch of people and start to think of them as part of the mainstream."