Dianarama - What Have We Learned?

This week on The Rest Is PR, Jacki and Lyle dive into one of the most explosive media scandals in modern British history, as they unpack Dianarama: Deception, Entrapment, Cover-Up - The Betrayal of Princess Diana, the new investigative book by former BBC journalist and filmmaker Andy Webb.

The book revisits the infamous 1995 Panorama interview between Princess Diana and Martin Bashir, revealing fresh claims of institutional failure and a decades-long attempt to bury the truth.

Jacki shares a powerful excerpt from the book, highlighting the BBC press office’s role in allowing the deception to continue once they learned how Bashir had secured the interview.

Lyle raises the central question - how was there no internal investigation into the press office’s handling of the scandal? And why, nearly 30 years on, has Martin Bashir still faced no meaningful consequences for one of the most damaging ethical breaches in journalism?

Together, Jacki and Lyle explore what we can learn from Dianarama about accountability, transparency, and the long-term consequences of hiding the truth.

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0:00 Intro

0:32 Dianarama

3:55 Conclusions Made By The Book

5:26 Press Office Mistruths

7:51 The Truth Will Out

9:22 An Excerpt From Dianarama

12:40 The Role Of The Press Office

15:17 What Lessons Can They Learn?

23:16 The Importance Of The Rest Is PR

24:08 Your Comments

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