Diana, Bashir & The Question BBC Bosses Feared Most
Written by Joanne Leyland
Thursday, 01 February 2007
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For decades BBC Television Centre in London has borne witness to the conception of some of Britain's most powerful TV dramas.
However,
in late 1995 reality surpassed anything ever produced in the BBC Drama
department as the Princess of Wales took to the airwaves to unearth a
torrent of revelations about life within the House of Windsor.
Now, over a decade later, it's been
revealed there was one question which particularly worried BBC
bosses before the interview recently voted the most memorable of all time went to air at 9pm on BBC1 on Monday 20th November 1995.
Ever since Diana spoke to journalist Martin Bashir, there's been as much intrigue about how
the historic interview came about as what the Princess herself had to say about her private life and that of her estranged husband, Prince Charles.
Noneother than the current Director General (DG) of the BBC, Mark Thompson, has revealed another facet of the story of how the Corporation managed to bag what was recently voted the most memorable TV interview of all time.
"If you had spent your life in a warship you would not know about taste"
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's response to a snob who questioned her grandson Prince Andrew's taste due to the supermarket style design of his Sunninghill home
