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Coffee House Shots

What could a reformed BBC look like?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Politicians have buttressed Prince William and Prince Harry's criticisms of the BBC in the wake of the Dyson report, which detailed Martin Bashir's forgeries to get access to Princess Diana, and the BBC cover up which ensued. Cindy Yu talks to James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman about the renewed scrutiny on the broadcaster.

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0:00.0

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0:16.8

Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

0:21.1

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth.

0:25.0

So in the aftermath of the Lord Dyson report into the Martin Bashir BBC interview with Princess Diana,

0:31.2

politicians have been calling for BBC reform.

0:34.1

But what would that look like and how serious the trouble is the BBC in? Here's what

0:39.2

Prince William had to say on Friday. It is my view that the deceitful way the interview was obtained

0:44.4

substantially influenced what my mother said. The interview was a major contribution to making my

0:51.3

parents' relationship worse and has since hurt countless others.

0:56.8

It brings indescriable sadness to know that the BBC's failures contributed significantly

1:02.2

to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.

1:09.4

And Harry has also made a statement.

1:11.3

James, can you just catch listeners up on what's been going on and why the Dyson

1:14.9

report was so explosive?

1:16.4

So the BBC had a review into how Martin Bashir obtained his interview at Princess Diana.

1:24.2

This is the interview that I suspect all listeners can remember where Princess Diana

1:26.9

said was Robert Crowder because there were three of us in the marriage.

1:30.5

And essentially it turned out that Martin Bashir had shown her brother, Earl Spencer, kind of

1:38.8

faked bank accounts to try and suggest that those around Diana were kind of almost informing on her. And I think that

1:46.8

the problem for the BBC is that they had an investigation interest at the time that kind of clearly

1:50.9

didn't want to look that hard. It's what the Dyson report says. And then I think even more

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