BBC Appoints Lord Dyson to Investigate Princess Diana ‘Panorama’ Interview Scandal
Naman Ramachandran The board of U.K. broadcaster BBC has appointed former Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson to lead the independent investigation into the circumstances around how a 1995 interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, on the “Panorama” program was secured.The interview, with journalist Martin Bashir, now the BBC’s religion editor, has been back in the eye of the storm in recent weeks in the U.K.The investigation will look at what steps the the BBC and in particular Martin Bashir took with a view to obtaining the interview, including forged documents, and whether these steps were relevant to the BBC’s editorial standards of the time.