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Allegations about how and why Diana was persuaded by a relatively unknown journalist to take part have remained unanswered since then. Its revelations stunned the world, painted the monarchy as cruel and oppressive and put its future in jeopardy. These failings, identified by investigative journalists, not only let my mother down, and my family down they let the public down too.Leading British factual producer Blink Films is producing a special one-off documentary revealing the story behind Diana, Princess of Wales’ extraordinary BBC Panorama interview.ĭiana, Princess of Wales’ November 1995 interview with the BBC’s Panorama was one of the most momentous programmes in the history of television.
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"In an era of fake news, public service broadcasting and a free press have never been more important.
This settled narrative now needs to be addressed by the BBC and anyone else who has written or intends to write about these events. "It effectively established a false narrative which, for over a quarter of a century, has been commercialised by the BBC and others. "It is my firm view that this Panorama programme holds no legitimacy and should never be aired again," he said. The landmark programme, in which the princess commented on her marriage to Prince Charles was watched by 23 million people.Īfter the Dyson report was published, Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, called for the Panorama episode to be blocked from future broadcast. The BBC broadcast clips from the interview again last May in a documentary explaining how Bashir persuaded Diana to be interviewed.
Panorama producer Mark Killick was also awarded a payment. The BBC has previously agreed to pay Diana’s private secretary Patrick Jephson a “substantial sum” in damages. Ms Legge-Bourke appeared at the High Court in London on Thursday for a public apology from the broadcaster over "fabricated" allegations she had had an affair with the Prince of Wales while working as Charles’s personal assistant in 1995. It comes as the Duke of Cambridge’s former nanny Alexandra Pettifer, better known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, received substantial damages from the BBC over "false and malicious" allegations used to obtain the interview. I would urge others to exercise similar restraint.”
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"But these will be few and far between and will need to be agreed at executive committee level and set in the full context of what we now know about the way the interview was obtained. It does of course remain part of the historical record and there may be occasions in the future when it will be justified for the BBC to use short extracts for journalistic purposes.
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Tim Davie said: “Now we know about the shocking way that the interview was obtained, I have decided that the BBC will never show the programme again nor will we license it in whole or part to other broadcasters. The journalist was in "serious breach" of the BBC's guidelines, a report said, with the corporation proceeding to cover up their reporter's "deceitful behaviour" in a way that "fell short of high standards of integrity and transparency." Tim Davie said he had made the decision in light of the "shocking" way her participation was secured.īashir faked bank statements and showed them to Earl Spencer, Diana's brother, in order to gain access to the princess, an inquiry by Lord Dyson found. The BBC's director-general has vowed that the corporation will never again broadcast Princess Diana's 1995 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir.
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