Masterful

When BBC Head of Religion Ernie Rea, a Presbyterian minister, suddenly announced he was taking early retirement in 2001, there was a struggle to find a replacement. TV factual producer Alan Bookbinder was persuaded to apply. Jim Moir, the Controller of Radio 2, interviewed him for the job, he took one glance and said: “Good. You look like a head of religion.” Unfortunately, Alan, the product of a Jewish-Catholic marriage, was "an open-hearted agnostic".

Presumably the dons of Downing College, Cambridge thought Alan looked sufficiently like a Master for them to give him the job, which he takes up in October 2018.