ping up goodbye to one area another one will ping up out of nowhere to move back across the uk. it is that repeating pattern we will see over the next few days and it s exactly why the weather is this damage was all so preventable. this programme continues on bbc one. for sexually explicit pictures. tonight, lawyers for the individual say the claims in the newspaper are rubbish . the bbc has been on the back foot for days, the sun is standing by its story, the high profile star remains unamed officially, and we don t know how the young person at the heart of this story is. where does all this leave the corporation and its bosses a question we have asked before in recent months and years, surely they have learned from previous scandals? tonight we ll talk to alison hastings, former chair of the bbc s editorial standards committee who s dealt with a number of bbc scandals, and top agentjonathan shallit. also tonight, as temperature records are broken around the world, we ll
from the stepdad. we have got the police are investigating whether anything illegal happened. although they haven t lodged a criminal investigation. we have got the person saying nothing unlawful has happened, and we have got the stepdad saying that he went to the police and was told there was nothing illegal. so, tonight many of us are trying to figure out still what happened, and we are also trying to figure out whether it warrants the naming of the presenter. warrants the naming of the presenter- warrants the naming of the resenter. ., ~ , ., , . here to discuss this we have alison hastings, former chair of the bbc trust editorial standards committee she dealt with the savile inquiry and before that thejonathan ross/ russell brand scandal. and professorjonathan shalit, chairman and founder of the intertalent rights group, who has represents presenters such as susanna reid and andrew neil. welcome both of you. alison hastings, first of all, should the bbc have acted sooner? i am b