Episode 8: Gunpowder

The Crown: The Official Podcast

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

An internecine conflict at the heart of the BBC between its Chairman and Director General provides the modernising DG, John Birt, with the ammunition he needs to sign off on Bashir's Panorama interview with Princess Diana. With Prince William settling in at Eton, he and the Queen start to have regular 'teas' together and the Queen realises William is concerned about his mother. But neither of them is prepared for what comes out in Diana's explosive Panorama interview. In this episode, Edith Bowman continues her discussion with Director Erik Richter-Strand, and talks with Archive Producer Victoria Stable, Head of Research Annie Sulzberger, and the actor portraying Martin Bashir, Prasanna Puwanarajah. The Crown: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and Somethin’ Else, in association with Left Bank Pictures.

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0:00.0	I just thought you were young you might understand.
0:07.0	But there is new trouble.
0:09.0	I might understand it if it had been made within my lifetime.
0:12.0	If you're right, it's been with us for years.
0:15.0	Might even be a rental.
0:17.0	Elephant seals.
0:18.0	Why don't you just buy a big new one?
0:20.0	I don't want a big new one.
0:22.0	But it would come with the right sockets and jacks.
0:25.0	You could get satellite TV as well.
0:27.0	With hundreds of different channels from all over the world.
0:30.0	What? An abandoned the BBC? I can't do that.
0:41.7	Welcome to the Crown the official podcast. I'm Edith Bowman and this is the podcast that follows the fifth season of the Netflix series
0:45.1	The Crown episode by episode taking you behind the scenes speaking with many of the
0:51.0	talented people involved and diving deep into the stories.
0:55.6	It's time to focus on episode 8, gunpowder.
0:59.4	We pick up with Princess Diana where we left off in episode 7 as journalist Martin Beshire goes to great
1:05.9	lens to dismiss Diana's concerns and film the risky panorama interview in secret. But will there be consequences for Diana, the
1:15.4	family and the BBC itself? We'll cover specific events and scenes that feature in
1:21.1	this episode so if you haven't watched episode 8 yet. scenes that Head of Research, Annie Salzberger will tell us the shocking real events that led to the
1:35.3	Panorama interview in 1995.
1:38.6	It's a heck of a meeting because Bashir comes armed with everything he could possibly throw at her.
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