2/9/22: The BBC has donated a total of £1.42 million to seven charities linked with Princess Diana following its investigation into how journalist Martin Bashir secured his infamous 1997 Panorama interview with her.
The money donated comes from the commercial sales proceeds of the interview footage, rather than any licence fee payments.
The BBC said in a statement: “Given the findings of Lord Dyson, we think this is the right and appropriate course of action.” The Dyson report last year found Bashir had used “deceitful behaviour” in a “serious breach” of producer guidelines to secure the interview.
Diana was involved in the Centrepoint, English National Ballet, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, The Leprosy Mission, National Aids Trust, The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity at the time of her 1996 death while The Diana Award, the seventh equal recipient, was created in her memory.
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The BBC has already pledged never to air or license the Panorama interview, in which Diana said there were “three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded”, again except potentially short extracts for a journalistic purpose when cleared by the executive committee.
Picture: File photo dated 20/11/95 of Diana
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