It began with a Sunday Times investigation and ended with the mother of all apologies.

Tim Davy, the current director of the BBC was having to abolish the Queen for this.

I mean, stories don't get much bigger than that.

Last October, the Sunday Times revealed how BBC journalist Martin Beshear had used fake

bank statements to secure his landmark interview with Princess Diana, a quarter

of a century earlier. It sparked a series of new inquiries.

The rehiring of Beshear is bizarre. He was repeatedly fired amid scandal

from a succession of jobs. There is a parable irony in all of this,

that he starts his BBC career on songs of praise and ends it as BBC's religious editor

and in between perpetrates one of the biggest crimes in the history of broadcasting.

This week, after an in-house inquiry, the BBC exonerated itself

for rehiring Beshear five years ago, saying they didn't know then what they know now.

Is that enough to draw a line under the scandal?

Will it continue to have far-reaching consequences?

It's not the end of the story. He is unique in that job of director general,

Tim Davy, in the 100-year history of the BBC. He is not a journalist.

He is ill-equipped, in my view, to run the BBC.

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manvine Rana. Today, Beshear, Diana, and the future of the BBC.

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