An atmosphere of “total contempt” coloured all dealings of BBC managers with their board of governors in 1995, as journalist Martin Bashir and his Panorama bosses were cooking up their covert interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, according to Sir Richard Eyre, who sat on the BBC board at the time. It led to a complete lack of communication about the controversial programme, which has, two and half decades later, now earned the corporation a.
A former BBC director-general has resigned as chairman of London's National Gallery in the fallout from an investigation into a bombshell interview with Princess Diana in 1995.