The interrogation of Diana’s interviews sparks a new crisis of confidence in the BBC The Welsh princess also put Diana in crisis before the BBC Panorama the interview was given, lies and forged documents were revealed and the UK announcer dragged him 25 years later into another scandal over editorial standards and cover culture. Recorded on Guy Fawkes Day 1995 and secretly edited at an Eastbourne hotel, journalist Martin Bashir’s super-ball was initially understood to be a historic bet by a public corporation that relied on the royal charter. license payers and government permission. The decision was so sensible that Lord John Birt, the general manager at the time, kept his chair in the dark monarchical arch of Marmaduke Hussey until Diana described her “crowded” wedding tape. Birtr demanded his resignation before even tuning in to 23 million viewers. “I had a moving sense that I could have thrown myself into the head for a crime committed verbatim a few centuries earlier,” he wrote in his memoirs.