The Diana Interview: The Truth Behind the Scandal — a follow-up to Blink Films’
Diana: The Truth Behind the Interview, which aired in October of last year — for May 29.
The follow-up, also from London-based Blink, comes as the BBC is facing great scrutiny for its journalistic practices in the wake of an inquiry led by retired British judge Lord Dyson, which determined there was a “covering up” regarding how then-BBC journalist Martin Bashir obtained an interview with Princess Diana for current affairs strand ‘Panorama’ in 1995.
The report states that Bashir not only forged bank statements in order to procure the interview — something he has since admitted to and apologized for — but that the BBC’s own internal probe into the affair was “woefully inadequate.” According to the report, Bashir showed the fake documents to Charles Spencer, Diana’s brother, in order to gain trust and access, but subsequently denied having done so when questioned by BBC top brass in a 1996 inquiry into the interview.