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Naman Ramachandran Some 25 years after Martin Bashir’s bombshell interview with Princess Diana on BBC’s “Panorama” program, the scandal continues to rage on.On Tuesday, a U.K.

BBC director general Tim Davie and two of his predecessors, Tony Hall and John Birt, have eaten large helpings of humble pie under intense questioning from British lawmakers over the Princess Diana scandal.

Martin Bashir was not rehired by the BBC in 2016 to cover up for the deception he deployed in securing an interview with Princess Diana two decades earlier, an independent review has concluded.

Steve Clarke On the same day that Prince William, second in line to the British throne, accused the BBC of fuelling his late mother Princess Diana’s “fear, paranoia and isolation” by deceptively obtaining an interview with her by disgraced reporter Martin Bashir, a new lobby group launched with the aim of protecting the BBC.Launched hours before the bombshell Dyson Report into the Panorama interview was dropped, the so-called British Broadcasting Challenge, backed by such luminaries as Armando

Naman Ramachandran The BBC has commissioned an investigation, led by former BBC director of nations and regions Ken MacQuarrie, into the circumstances under which Martin Bashir was rehired by the corporation in 2016.Bashir left the BBC in 1999, four years after the scandalous 1995 interview with Princess Diana on the “Panorama” program, which an enquiry by Lord Dyson found was obtained by him by deceit.

Four days after the BBC published a brutal independent inquiry into a bombshell Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana, the recriminations continue, as the UK government ramps up its rhetoric against the broadcaster.