RHLSTP Book Club 164 - Andy Webb

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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RHLSTP Book Club #164 - Dianarama - Richard chats to journalist and documentary maker Andy Webb about his exhaustively researched (and lived) book Dianarama which is about the Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana and the lies and subterfuge that were required to get it and the alleged cover up at the BBC that followed. How much did the BBC bosses know and how soon? Why hasn’t it been properly investigated at the Beeb? Was Bashir’s exploitation of Diana’s understandable fears at least partly responsible for her death? Why did the BBC give Bashir a cushy job as late as 2016 when he had already been discredited? What has driven Andy to commit so much time to trying to get to the bottom of it all and why has he met such a wall of resistance? Does Richard’s attendance at St Catherine’s College Oxford mean that he might be involved somehow? Where does mad conspiracy theory end and cover up begin? Maybe only the historians of 500 years time will be able to put all the pieces together, but maybe Prince William will be able to make some headway into the weird goings on in the 1990s and the dodgy behaviour at the BBC.

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0:00.0	Hello IT nerds and anyone else who's chance to cross this by accident.
0:03.5	Welcome to my podcast feed.
0:05.4	The big news is we have guests for the 1st December, Rahalasthapa, at the Leicester Square
0:10.1	Theatre, where I'll be talking to Richard Osmond, best-selling author and nascent podcaster.
0:17.0	He thinks he can do podcasts.
0:18.4	What does he know?
0:19.4	And also Matthew Bainton, who's shortly appearing in the champion, a champion's edition of Taskmaster and from ghosts and everything. It's an amazing bill. The tickets are selling really fast. I think there might be a couple of £18.50 tickets left if you're quick, but then it goes up to something like 21. So book quickly. Go to rich herring.com slash Rahalisterpa for the links for that.
0:40.0	And all the upcoming Rahalashtabas in Leicester, Chelmsford and London.
0:44.8	There's three or four more in the Leicester Square Theatre in the new year.
0:47.5	Anyway, look, let's sit back, relax.
0:49.4	Richard Herring.com slash Rahalisterpah. Go there now.
0:52.0	Sit back, relax and enjoy the podcast.
0:55.4	Thank you so much for downloading and enjoy this offering hello welcome to another edition of rahalestba book club this week i've
1:06.4	been listening to diana rana by and The Betrayal of Princess Diana,
1:12.3	and Andy joins me now.
1:13.6	Hello, Andy.
1:14.8	Hello, Richard.
1:15.7	Good to be here.
1:16.5	Lovely to have you.
1:18.2	Well, look, before we get onto the book,
1:19.6	let's find out a little bit about your life
1:23.8	before this book.
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