The BBC has started handing back awards won by Martin Bashir’s Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.
It fell, oddly, to Leigh Tavaziva, new Chief Operating Officer at the BBC, to write to the Broadcasting Press Guild to return the award for best single documentary, given jointly with the Channel 4 film Secret Asia: The Dying Rooms. “I am writing to all the awarding bodies from which the BBC received an accolade for the interview to formally renounce the win. I would be grateful if you would therefore update your records to reflect this.”
The BPG's executive committee has also decided to remove the award given to Bashir for television journalist of the year.
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