‘Dianarama’ – the conspiracy of deceit exposé that should sign the BBC’s death warrant.

THERE are moments when an institution’s mask slips so completely that it can never truly be put back on. Former BBC journalist Andy Webb’s scorching book Dianarama, published last week, is such a moment for the BBC. -BBC Bias - David Keighley

On top of the unfolding and escalating scandal about the Prescott dossier, which concludes that the BBC Board (and its predecessors, the Trustees and the Governors) were and are incapable and arguably unwilling to properly police accuracy, impartiality and good enough practice, 

Webb’s forensic reconstruction of the Martin Bashir scandal not only exposes his original deceit in 1995, but shatters the manufactured history the BBC has spent nearly 30 years carefully layering over it...

• It is the missing autopsy report, the one the BBC hoped would never exist.

And what Dianarama reveals is devastating. 

• Far from a lone reporter’s deception, the Bashir affair emerges as a multi-layered, multi-year conspiracy of silence. 
• Forged bank statements which outrageously suggested that Diana could not trust the key figures in her household were merely the spark...