More Bashir

 Odds and ends we have learnt about Martin Bashir this week.

He started his company, Panoramic Productions, in February 1995 - nine months before his Panorama interview with the Princess of Wales was broadcast. His wife, Deborah, then a district nurse, was company secretary. It's never had much more than £50k to handle a year. 

He shares an agent - John Miles - with Noel Edmonds, Timmy Mallett and Nick Knowles. 

As the BBC's Religion Editor, Martin wrote a foreword to former DDG Mark Byford's 2018 tome, The Annunciation - A Pilgrim's Quest, describing it as ‘an extraordinary devotional journey… unique and thought-provoking.'  Martin lived not far from Byford in Winchester for a time from 2002. In 2003, Martin's people carrier was set on fire by a former friend of his son.