Private Eye Street Of Shame: A chancer encounter
A chancer encounter
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Earl Spencer, brother of Princess Diana The Dyson Report on the controversial Panorama interview with Princess Diana revealed that Anne Sloman, the BBC's head of weekly programmes in news and current affairs, wrote to senior colleagues after Martin Bashir's subterfuge had been exposed internally in 1996 to assure them: "The Diana story is probably now dead, unless Spencer talks. There's no indication that he will." Lord Dyson followed this point up with Earl Spencer, asking him why he had waited 25 years to cooperate with journali...