BBC Panorama has finally aired the results of its own internal probe into Martin Bashir’s infamous interview with Princess Diana.
Thursday night’s episode of the long-running investigative series, titled “Princess Diana, Martin Bashir and the BBC,” detailed the inside story of how Bashir obtained the candid sit-down, as well as the BBC’s response upon discovering that Bashir had shown falsified documents to Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer.
In the opening statement, Bashir was described as having “spun a web of elaborate lies” in order to secure an interview with the princess.
“We’ve pieced together the calculated deceit that Martin Bashir deployed to get his scoop,” said the program’s lead reporter John Ware.
During the program, Earl Spencer alleged again that the said documents, which supposedly revealed that two senior courtiers were being paid to provide information on Diana, played a large part in his decision...
Thursday night’s episode of the long-running investigative series, titled “Princess Diana, Martin Bashir and the BBC,” detailed the inside story of how Bashir obtained the candid sit-down, as well as the BBC’s response upon discovering that Bashir had shown falsified documents to Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer.
In the opening statement, Bashir was described as having “spun a web of elaborate lies” in order to secure an interview with the princess.
“We’ve pieced together the calculated deceit that Martin Bashir deployed to get his scoop,” said the program’s lead reporter John Ware.
During the program, Earl Spencer alleged again that the said documents, which supposedly revealed that two senior courtiers were being paid to provide information on Diana, played a large part in his decision...
- 5/20/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
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