If you're interested in participating in a BBC television documentary you might want to check this out: BBC Three Looking for Red Head

Control one of our kind, whose purpose is to copulate with as many of the opposite sex as possible in an attempt to spread the recessive ginger gene.

The missions are made difficult by the fact you can't stay out in the sun for too long without applying suncream, or you'll burn up!

Play The Ginger Dawn Flash Game

Upcoming DJ Tim Cheddar expresses distaste at being called ginger.

Read more: Are you calling me ginger?

This isn't gingerism, but it is very interesting. A red haired teenager has lost all of his freckles after suffering serious burns to his face and arms.

Read more: Burn victim's freckles disappear after explosion

Columnist Nathan Bevan takes a comical look at the latest red hair related happenings.

Check it out: It’s revenge time for agents orange

Australian advertising agencies are apparently taking advantage of the stereotypes associated with red heads and using ginger children in marketing campaigns.

Red head stereotypes enhance advertising

The Evening Standard has the first review of Root Ginger, the exhibition by Jenny Wicks running now and up to 1st March 2009.

Read more: Root Ginger exhibition review

Retired professor John Brock takes a lighthearted look at the widely held belief that red heads will soon be extinct.

Read more: Will gingers become extinct?

Ann McFerran discusses the gingerism her children have encountered throughout their lives and how they feel about being red heads today. Particularly interesting is the distinctive difference between Canadian and British reactions to red hair.

Read more: Being ginger's been the making of us

Writer Anne McElvoy pontificates on a week of news and spares a thought for gingerism, prompted by the opening of Jenny Wicks' Root Ginger exhibition.

A ginger Prime Minister?

An official National Adoption Society form asked if the child considered for adoption carried the recessive gene that causes red hair. The form, used as late as 1976 asked "Is there any red hair in the family?".

Read more and see the original form: National Adoption Society: Does child carry red hair gene?

A great article, however the habit to declare "my prejudice is more harmful than your prejudice" is evident here. Syed accuses subconscious bias for his non-white father not progressing faster in his career. He goes on to claim, without research or supporting evidence that "no such bias, incidentally, exists towards Aussies or ginger-nuts."

Read more: Subconscious red head prejudice dismissed