Welcome to another exciting edition of Plank of the Week, the fastest growing radio show that became a television show that now is the envy of all comedians because of course comedians now can't make jokes anymore because they all think that Joe Biden's going to be president of the United States of America. And they can't make jokes about him because he's not from the right side of the divide. I'm delighted to say that not only have we got a proper plank now to give people,

but we've actually got a little plaque at the top of the plank,

which says Plank of the Week, which was very kindly sent into us by one of our listeners in Rotherham.

I'll give you his name later on.

And I'm delighted to say that here are we back in the studio with Kevin O'Sullivan,

who was here last week. You'll become a bit of a regular here.

I know, but it's a COVID crisis. It is a COVID crisis. So we're actually limited to the numbers

of people that we can bring into the building. Olivia Utley is here as well. She is, of course,

the deputy leader writer at the Sun, amongst many other things. Welcome. Let's start off with you, Kevin, this week, and tell us who your first plank is. I'm going to go for Martin Bashir and the BBC.

Oh, yes.

For the disgraceful way it appears they treated Princess Diana at a very vulnerable stage of her life,

having split up from Charles Bashir.

I mean, I say it's alleged, but we've seen the evidence.

It comes from Diana's furious brother, Charles Spencer.

He has provided all of his notes.

The BBC has accepted that Bashir got a graphic designer to fake up bank statements,

to persuade Diana that people in the Royal Employee, in the Royal Employee,

were selling stories of her. He apparently told Diana that the Queen was a comfort eater with heart problems,

that Prince Edward was dying of AIDS and created in her mind the feeling that everyone at the palace was conspiring

against her selling stories to the papers about her and coerced her into giving that iconic

interview 25 years ago that completely changed the way the British people look at the royal

family.

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