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BBC Will “Never” Screen Diana Panorama Interview Again, Urges Other Broadcasters To Follow

Yesterday, the head of the BBC announced that the organization will “never” again air the interview that defined an era with Diana, Princess of Wales for the Panorama program, and he asked other broadcasting organizations to follow the BBC’s lead.

Tim Davie, the director-general of the BBC, made the promise after an investigation led by Lord Dyson found that interviewer Martin Bashir’s dishonest behavior “fell short of high standards of integrity and transparency.”

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This behavior included faking statements to make it look as though Diana’s staff were selling stories about her. The inquiry was in response to allegations that Bashir had suggested that Diana’s staff had been selling stories on her.

According to the findings of Dyson’s research, Bashir committed a “severe violation” of the producer criteria established by the BBC when he was searching for his scoop 27 years ago.

On Thursday, Davie made the following announcement: “Now that we know about the appalling method that the interview was acquired, I have determined that the BBC will never play the program again; in addition, we will not license it in whole or in part to any other broadcasters.”

“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; however, these will be few and far between, and will need to be agreed upon 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 extract

“I would strongly encourage others to demonstrate the same level of self-control.”

His comments were made on the same day that the Duke of Cambridge’s former nanny, Alexandra Pettifer, who at the time was known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke, received substantial damages from the BBC for “false and malicious” allegations that she had had an affair with her employer, the Prince of Wales while working in his household in 1995. At the time, she was known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke.

BBC Will “Never” Screen Diana Panorama Interview Again, Urges Other Broadcasters To Follow

Patrick Jephson, who served as Diana’s private secretary, and Mark Killick, who formerly worked as a producer for Panorama, were both awarded “significant sums” by the BBC as compensation for their losses.

The station had also previously handed back the BAFTA award that it had received for the interview, which had been viewed by 23 million people in the United Kingdom at the time that it was broadcast in November 1995.

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It brings unfathomable grief to know that the BBC’s mistakes contributed considerably to her terror, paranoia, and isolation that I recall from those final years with her, Prince William had previously stated about the manner in which the interview with his mother was secured.

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