Martin Bashir blamed discrimination over his race and class for the scandal that surrounded his obtaining of an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, newly released BBC emails have now revealed.
BBC lawyers made light of the scandal surrounding Martin Bashir’s use of forged documents to secure his 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, joking that they would be condemned to “a short stretch in the Tower”.
In previously unseen internal messages, senior figures appeared to quip that the bombshell 1995 Panorama interview (pictured) with Diana, Princess of Wales, would cost them knighthoods.
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