Princess Diana’s interview with Martin Bashir is omitted from this curiously partial look at problematic BBC moments, but sadly the same isn’t true of Emily Maitlis’ chat with the Duke of York
, widely understood to be high up in the IRA too. Dimbleby doesn’t question the wisdom of what seems to the casual observer to be a case of deliberately poking the bear. The slightly smug air that overlies the whole programme thickens during the subsequent coverage of the journalistic strikes that followed the BBC governors’ decision not to show Real Lives.
The latter seems best described as “wholly servile” until the post-separation Diana scoop proved too much for everyone. Quite how tempting its procurement was and the “devious, underhand … obnoxious” ways, Dimbleby notes, it was done by, with blind eyes apparently being turned elsewhere as necessary, has only recently become clear. The BBC lost to ITV the rights to broadcast the Queen’s Christmas speech on alternate years, which is possibly the most British sentence I have ever written.
As a result of strictures laid down after the revelations about the duplicity, Days That Shook the BBC couldn’t show any of the Diana interview. Would that the same could be said of the, simply to save the viewer the incalculable agony of watching for a second time his claims of being unable to sweat due to trauma sustained in the Falklands war.
Interviewed by Dimbles about the experience, Maitlis is clearly champing at the bit to say all that she purged herself of in her recent, about the many flaws she perceives in the current incarnation of the BBC , but limited herself to a brusque “editorial independence is always at risk”. Dimbleby concludes that an independent BBC is still vital to democracy. Next week, he looks at the issue of trust (in the wake of the
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