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Ex-BBC head quits gallery job amid Diana interview fallout Poll Yes LONDON (AP) – Tony Hall, who was director of BBC news and current affairs at the time of the public broadcaster’s explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana, resigned Saturday as board chairman of Britain’s National Gallery. Hall, who subsequently rose to the top job at the BBC, was heavily criticized in a report this week for a botched inquiry into how journalist Martin Bashir obtained the blockbuster interview. In a statement, Hall said his continued presence at the gallery would be a “distraction to an institut...

Ex-BBC chief steps down from high-profile job over Diana probe Issued on: 22/05/2021 - 15:06 Tony Hall led an investigation into the interview and was later named head of the BBC Ben STANSALL POOL/AFP/File 3 min London (AFP) A former BBC chief who was criticised for his "woefully ineffective" probe into Martin Bashir's deception in securing a bombshell interview with Princess Diana on Saturday resigned as chair of Britain's National Gallery. Journalist Bashir tricked Diana into giving a 1995 BBC television interview in which she lifted the lid on h...

Ex-BBC head quits gallery job amid Diana interview fallout Sign In PAN PYLAS, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6FILE - In this Dec. 11, 1995 file photo, Diana, Princess of Wales, smiles at the United Cerebral Palsy's annual dinner at the New York Hilton. An investigation has found that a BBC journalist used “deceitful behavior” to secure an explosive interview with Princess Diana in 1995, in a “serious breach” of the broadcaster’s guidelines. The probe came after Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, made renewed complaints that journalist Martin Bashir used fal...

Pan Pylas FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, a woman takes a selfie outside the National Gallery of art in London. Tony Hall, who was director of BBC news and current affairs at the time of the public broadcaster's explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana, resigned Saturday May 22, 2021, as board chairman of Britain's National Gallery. Image Credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File May 22, 2021 - 11:00 AM LONDON (AP) — Tony Hall, who was director of BBC news and current affairs at the time of the public broadcaster's explosive 1995 inter...

Prince Harry and Earl Spencer could hardly have been clearer. Princess Diana’s landmark appearance on Panorama in 1995 led to her death. Martin Bashir’s “interview of the century” – as it was boastfully billed by the BBC at the time – attracted an audience of 23 million viewers, and had profound and far-reaching consequences for the Royal family.  And, according to her younger brother and her youngest son, it also proved to be Diana’s fatal mistake. Their clear inference was that, had she not been persuaded to invite Bashir into her sitting room at Kensington Palace, she would...