Miss Mason presented Radio Bristol's weekday afternoon programme
A BBC radio presenter has been replaced over allegedly racist comments made during an off-air phone conversation.
Sam Mason, who took over the BBC Radio Bristol weekday afternoon programme six weeks ago, was suspended on Friday.
She was informed by station bosses on Saturday that she would no longer be working for the BBC.
According to The Sun newspaper, Miss Mason allegedly told a Bristol taxi firm "not to send an Asian driver to pick up her daughter".
The paper said Miss Mason, 40, told a cab operator: "A guy with a turban on is going to freak her out."
Worker 'outraged'
When her request was refused, she is alleged to have said: "You've managed it before."
The taxi worker was said to be outraged and recorded the conversation.
The cab firm involved in the row issued a statement on Tuesday evening revealing that the employee who took the telephone call from the radio presenter had been sacked.
A spokesperson for The Streamline Black and White Taxis said: "We confirm that a telephone call from Radio Bristol presenter Sam Mason to the company was illegally recorded by an employee.
"That employee was dismissed for similar offences on 3 November."
Miss Mason is reported to have called the taxi firm off-air as she played a song on her afternoon show.
A transcript of the conversation, published in The Sun, records how she ordered a taxi to take her 14-year-old from her Clifton house to her grandparents' home.
A BBC spokesman said: "Although Sam Mason's remarks were not made on-air, her comments were completely unacceptable and, for that reason, she has been informed that she will no longer be working for the BBC with immediate effect."
Sam Mason was not available for comment.
A United Kingdom radio presenter with the BBC was fired on Saturday, and replaced, after an allegedly racist off-air phone call. Sam Mason of BBC Radio Bristol had earlier called up a taxi firm to arrange a booking for her 14-year-old daughter.
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Mason asked the operator not to send an Asian cab driver. She said, "A guy with a turban on is going to freak her out." After the operator refused Mason snapped back claiming, "You’ve managed it before."

The original female operator had passed the call over to another operator. Mason then accused the first of having "a bad attitude", and said, "I work at the BBC. I’m far from racist and that uneducated woman has no right to call me one." The call then ended but she called back to complain.

The female operator who took the call was also fired from her job for illegally recording the call.

A statement from the taxi firm stated that "We confirm that a telephone call from Radio Bristol presenter Sam Mason to the company was illegally recorded by an employee. That employee was dismissed for similar offences on 3 November." 

A copy of the call was sent to British tabloid ''The Sun'', which broke the story on Tuesday. ''The Sun'' informed the BBC.

A BBC spokesman said: "Although Sam Mason's remarks were not made on-air, her comments were completely unacceptable and, for that reason, she has been informed that she will no longer be working for the BBC with immediate effect."

According to BBC News, Mason, who worked at the station for only six weeks, was unavailable for comment.

The incident comes just weeks after the Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross prank call scandal involving Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.