Ever since Dodi Al Fayed’s father, Mohamed, claimed that his son and Diana, Princess of Wales, were killed on the orders of ‘the royal family’, the events of 31st August 1997 have been meticulously analysed and debated.

Nobody spent more time on that than Australian writer John Morgan, and his startling conclusion was that the crash in Paris' Alma tunnel was no accident, but an assassination. He wrote a series of books, the best known simply called ‘How They Murdered Princess Diana’.

Phil wrote a biography of Diana and - at that time - was happy to accept the ‘drunk driver going too fast’ explanation of the Princess' death. And he goes into this episode at Andrew’s suggestion, feeling intensely sceptical. Does he change his mind?

John Morgan died a few years ago but his friend and collaborator Paul Sparks knows his work inside out, and he joins Andrew and Phil to discuss it.

John’s book can be found here...

https://amzn.eu/d/8HO5MNA

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