"mescaline under medical supervision. The resulting programme was never broadcast, though the footage and transcripts were later released. ""Panorama"" broadcast a famous hoax film about the harvesting of the spaghetti crop on April Fool's Day, 1957. Broadcast on 4 May 1955, Malcolm Muggeridge talked with Salvador Dalí, the Spanish surrealist artist. Arguably the most famous ""Panorama"" programme of all was the 1995 interview of Diana, Princess of Wales by Martin Bashir, which occurred after her separation, when she openly discussed the rumours about her personal life. The programme's filming and planning was subject to extreme secrecy, with Richard James Ayre,"
"Panorama (TV programme) Panorama is a British investigative current affairs documentary programme that is aired on BBC Television. First broadcast in 1953, it is the world's longest-running current affairs television programme. ""Panorama"" has been presented by many well known BBC presenters, including Richard Dimbleby, Robin Day, David Dimbleby and Jeremy Vine. it still retains a peak time transmission slot on BBC One, but without a regular presenter. The programme also airs worldwide through BBC World News on digital services, satellite and cable in many countries. ""Panorama"" was launched on 11 November 1953 by the BBC; it emphasises investigative journalism. ""Daily"
"steering the Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales to air - a decision which infuriated the BBC's then Chairman Marmaduke Hussey. In March 2010, the government announced that Ayre would join the BBC Trust - the governing body of the Corporation - replacing fellow journalist Richard Tait. Richard Ayre became a founder member of the board of the Food Standards Agency which pioneered open access with web casts of board meetings and fully published documentation. He was Chair of Article 19 (2003-2005), and was Freedom of Information Adjudicator for the Law Society (2001-2015). He led OFCOM's 2007 enquiry into"
"Bashir came to wide prominence in 1995 when he interviewed (for the BBC's ""Panorama"" programme) Diana, Princess of Wales about her failed marriage to the Prince of Wales. Since then he has conducted interviews with, among others, Louise Woodward, the five suspects in the Stephen Lawrence case, Michael Barrymore, Jeffrey Archer, Major Charles Ingram, Michael Jackson, and Joanne Lees. Bashir was employed by ABC and co-anchored their current affairs show ""Nightline"". Along with Cynthia McFadden and Terry Moran, he took over ""Nightline"" from Ted Koppel in 2005. In August 2010 Bashir left ABC for MSNBC where he served as a"
"death of Diana, Princess of Wales, who died during a paparazzi chase in Paris on August 31, 1997. British journalism professor Michael Tracey, who was teaching mass media at the University of Colorado convinced Shapiro that continuing to work for the tabloids would be immoral since Shapiro believed the stories accusing John Ramsey were false. Shapiro felt compassion for the people his editors were targeting, and he telephoned John Ramsey to apologize for his participation in the tabloid journalism world. Soon thereafter, Shapiro reported his editors to the FBI for conspiring to blackmail lead Boulder Detective Steve Thomas for sealed"
"attacks and the death of Princess Diana and has interviewed many notable individuals including Shimon Peres, Oprah Winfrey, Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa, Julius Malema, Eugène Terre'Blanche and Robert McBride. She was appointed editor-in-chief of e.tv news in 2005. In 2009 she resigned her position as editor-in-chief, ""to follow her passion for journalism"" and focus on 3rd Degree. She played a key role in the launch of South Africa's first 24-hour news channel eNews Channel Africa (eNCA) by e.tv in 2008. In 2012 a puppet version of Patta voiced by Nikki Jackman was cast as co-host of"
"1995, taking over from Nick Miller. Dickin was on air in the UK overnight when news was broken of the car crash which subsequently killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and he was still on air to make the announcement of her death as a newsflash. Although he had a reputation as an argumentative controversialist, his put-downs were withering and waspish enough without needing to raise his voice. During a phone-in on religion in late 2005, a caller mentioned Scientology, to which Dickin replied sardonically: ""Ah, yes. Tom Cruise and John Travolta - two of the great theologians of our age."""
"at Five"", ""Sky News Tonight"" and ""The Sky Report"". Anna Botting joined Sky News in 1995 as a reporter, before moving into the studio to anchor the news. During the 1997 election Botting shadowed Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, day-in day-out, for the whole six weeks of the campaign. She was also the first journalist to arrive at Kensington Palace on the day Diana, Princess of Wales died. Botting also covered the death of Pope John Paul II and anchored coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from the studio. She was presenting on air when Serbian leader Slobodan"
"The Story of Diana The Story of Diana is an American four-hour television documentary on the life of Princess Diana. The ABC documentary, made in partnership with ""People"", explored Diana's life and legacy, through interviews with historians, experts and people who knew Diana personally, interwoven with archival footage. The documentary aired on ABC over two parts on August 9 and 10, 2017, marking the 20th anniversary of her death. It features a U.S.-exclusive interview with Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, as well as interviews with others close to the Princess, including Richard Branson, Lana Marks and Wayne"
"involved Margaret Thatcher. Panorama was taken to court (for slander) in October 1986 for having a perceived vendetta against some politicians in the Conservative Party, notably for aligning these politicians with supposed allegiances for the National Front or other forms of implied racist leanings. The BBC did not eventually contest the case and settled out of court. Fred Emery (journalist) Fred Emery (born 19 October 1933) is a British television investigative journalist, often for the BBC. He was born in south-west Essex. He attended Bancroft's School in north-east London from 1944-51. He was head boy in 1951. He covered a"
"Roundtable, presented by David Foster and Matthew Moore. Martin can now be seen presenting on the BBC News channel. Martin Stanford Martin Stanford (born 2 May 1958) is an English journalist and former news presenter for ""Sky News"", having worked for the channel from 1991 to 2016. He was the first British newsreader to announce the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and presented a number of various different programmes on Sky News over the years, including Sunrise, Sky News at Ten and Sky News Today. Stanford also devised and presented SkyNews.com, a programme which focused on the top stories"
"""The Economist"", and a researcher for Gordon Brown, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer. Between 2005 and 2007, she was the ""Financial Times""' White House correspondent, based in Washington D. C., during which time she was a regular panellist on ""The McLaughlin Group"" and on National Public Radio’s Diane Rehm show. Before moving to Chicago in May 2002, where she led the ""FT""s coverage of the US airline industry and Boeing, Daniel was based in London as Information Technology correspondent covering the IT boom and bust. She was research editor for the book ""Values, Visions and Voices"" (1995) by Gordon"
"changes in South African broadcasting; and ""Aliens Go Home"" (1994) unraveling the immigration backlash in California following the 1994 earthquake. She was CNBC's London anchor and correspondent in 1995-1996, and in the same period reported for NBC Weekend Nightly News and NBC Today News. The first American to anchor BBC World News, Garapedian presented news and analysis for the main news programs and bulletins between 1996 and 1998. In her later screenplay, ""Talkback,"" she dramatizes the night Princess Diana died. Her experiences are also humorously recalled in a 2002 Los Angeles Times article. With the advent of smaller digital cameras,"
"editor of ""Panorama"" during the time when it broadcast Princess Diana's 1995 interview with Martin Bashir. Passed over to be the next controller of BBC One, he returned to Channel 4 before quickly joining ITV franchise holder Carlton Television as managing director of productions. Made redundant in 2004 after Carlton merged with Granada Television, he took a sabbatical during which he bought a holiday home in St Lucia, before embarking on a portfolio career. Hewlett was a media-columnist for ""The Guardian"" and ""The Observer"". This brought him to the attention of BBC Radio 4's then-controller Mark Damazer, who asked Hewlett"
"Martin Stanford Martin Stanford (born 2 May 1958) is an English journalist and former news presenter for ""Sky News"", having worked for the channel from 1991 to 2016. He was the first British newsreader to announce the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and presented a number of various different programmes on Sky News over the years, including Sunrise, Sky News at Ten and Sky News Today. Stanford also devised and presented SkyNews.com, a programme which focused on the top stories across the Internet, between 2007 and 2010. Until early 2016, Stanford presented Sky News on Saturday mornings from 10am"
"Tina Brown Tina Brown CBE (born Christina Hambley Brown; 21 November 1953), is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of ""The Diana Chronicles"", a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. Born a British citizen, she now holds joint citizenship after she took United States citizenship in 2005, following her emigration to the United States in 1984 to edit ""Vanity Fair"". By marriage, she is legally titled Lady Evans. Having been editor-in-chief of ""Tatler"" magazine at the age of 25, she rose to prominence in the American media industry as the editor of ""Vanity Fair"" from 1984 to"
"Samantha Poling Samantha Poling is a Scottish investigative journalist, currently working for BBC Scotland and BBC Panorama. Raised in Helensburgh, after graduation Poling joined the ""Northumberland Gazette"" in Alnwick as a trainee reporter. She returned to Scotland in 1995, working on the ""Helensburgh Advertiser"". In 1996, she moved to the national press, covering stories such as the Dunblane massacre and reporting from Paris on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 1998 she joined BBC Scotland, and later became the channel's Health Correspondent. She still works for the channel on ""BBC Scotland Investigates"". In 2002 she moved into investigative"
"Sleep, and Prince Charles' cousin India Hicks. The Story of Diana The Story of Diana is an American four-hour television documentary on the life of Princess Diana. The ABC documentary, made in partnership with ""People"", explored Diana's life and legacy, through interviews with historians, experts and people who knew Diana personally, interwoven with archival footage. The documentary aired on ABC over two parts on August 9 and 10, 2017, marking the 20th anniversary of her death. It features a U.S.-exclusive interview with Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, as well as interviews with others close to the Princess,"
"for BBC2’s ""Learning Zone"" and ""What’s The Story?"" on Channel Five as well as ""BBC London News"" and the regional programmes ""First Sight"" in London and ""Spotlight"" in Northern Ireland. On the day Princess Diana died in 1997, she reported for BBC Television and took part in the subsequent funeral coverage. Since 2007 she has presented BBC Radio 4’s ""The House I Grew Up In"" and since October 2010 has presented reports for ""The One Show"" on BBC1. She has been Executive Producer for numerous BBC programmes including ""Casualty 1907"" and ""Everest ER"" and for the independent production company CTVC"
"""The Times"" described the ""witty repartee"" of Allen and co-presenter Jane Garvey as the best illustration of the station's tone, ""friendly, informal, brisk, and mercifully, not terribly politically correct"". On 31 August 1997, Allen and James Naughtie hosted the BBC Radio coverage of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales which saw Radios 2, 3, 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live taking a single programme. This coverage won a Sony Award for best news event. During 13 years working together at Five Live, following ""Breakfast"" with ""Drive"", Allen and Garvey won six Sony Awards including the Gold award for news"
"director, before joining Times Newspapers as chief executive and managing director, a post he held from 1971–80. He was appointed Chairman of the BBC in 1986, upon the death of Stuart Young, thanks in part to his close connections to the ruling Conservative Party. Within three months of joining the BBC, he had forced the resignation of the Director-General, Alasdair Milne, following a series of rows in recent years between the BBC and the Conservative government. In the 1990s, Hussey fell out with Director General John Birt over his management style and ""Panorama's"" controversial interview with Diana, Princess of Wales"
"CHAN-TV in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also was a news anchor during the times of the cult Heaven's Gate. Linden Soles Linden Soles (born October 26, 1956 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian television journalist, best known to international audiences as an anchor on CNN. Most famously, he was known for reporting the death of Diana, Princess of Wales on CNN. His employment was terminated by the network in 1998 in a management shakeup by Rick Kaplan, after Kaplan concluded that the network had too many anchors for viewers to keep track of. Prior to joining CNN in 1993, Soles"
"Martyn Lewis Sir Martyn John Dudley Lewis (born 7 April 1945) is a Welsh television news presenter and journalist. He was a presenter for various BBC News programmes between 1986 and 1999 and was known for his involvement in the coverage of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. He is also active in the charity sector and is the Founder & Executive Chairman of YourBigDay Ltd. Lewis was born in Swansea, Glamorgan, though was educated at the co-educational Dalriada School in Northern Ireland and graduated with a BA degree from Trinity College, Dublin. He then joined BBC"
"for his coverage of the Oldham riots and also won the Broadcast Award for ""England's Shame"", an investigation into football hooliganism at Euro 2000. His report on the Madrid bombings also won a Bafta award. In 1997 Hewitt wrote and presented the BBC One tribute to Princess Diana and in 1998 made ""Charles: A Life in Waiting - a portrait of Prince Charles at 50"" for Panorama and the US Arts and Entertainment channel. He has also worked for the BBC's Natural History Unit making two programmes about the ""Land Of The Tiger"", and wrote and presented ""Another Silent Spring"""
"figures, such as the Prime Minister of the UK, Tony Blair, and Senator John McCain, to celebrities, such as George Clooney and Annette Bening. ""Topic A"" struggled to find an audience on Sunday nights, airing after a day of infomercials. It averaged 75,000 viewers in 2005, about the same as ""The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch"" (79,000) and John McEnroe's ""McEnroe"" (75,000.) On being offered a lucrative deal with tight deadlines to write a book about Princess Diana, Brown resigned, airing her last ""Topic A"" interviews on 29 May 2005. Brown's biography of Diana, Princess of Wales was published just"
"Martin Bashir Martin Henry Bashir (born 19 January 1963) is a British journalist. After initially gaining prominence on British television with his BBC interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, and then his controversial fly-on-the-wall documentary with pop singer Michael Jackson on ITV, Bashir was a political commentator for MSNBC, hosting ""Martin Bashir"", and a correspondent for NBC's Dateline NBC. He was previously an anchor for ABC's ""Nightline"". On 4 December 2013, Bashir resigned from his position at MSNBC after he made ""ill-judged comments"" about the former Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Bashir was appointed as BBC"
"Lustig presented a special news programme covering the sudden death of Diana, Princess of Wales, just hours after the announcement was made. From its introduction in 1998 until 2006, he also presented the global phone-in programme ""Talking Point"" (later renamed ""Have Your Say""), which was transmitted simultaneously on BBC World Service radio, BBC World TV and online. His guests on the programme included Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Olusegun Obasanjo, Hugo Chávez and Tony Blair. He later concentrated on ""The World Tonight"" and ""Newshour"", although he still presented special programmes on major occasions. For the BBC World Service he has presented"
"News and Current Affairs Department. Across three seasons, Scipio conducted television interview one-hour specials with such accidental heroes as Doreen Lawrence, mother of slain teenager Stephen Lawrence, who singlehandedly changed the face of British justice. Her celebrity interviewees include Piers Morgan, Deepak Chopra, Mel B, Terry McMillan, Jackie Collins, Levi Roots, Laura Carmichael, Bruno Tonioli and Lara Pulver. Rianna Scipio Rianna Soraya Scipio is a British television host, journalist, producer and director who is best known for her work on UK national television, as a prime-time television host (presenter) of such flagship series as the BBC‘s ""Watchdog"", ""Holiday"", ""UK’s Worst…?"","
"delivered the lecture in 2013. Christine Lagarde gave the 2014 lecture. Martha Lane Fox in 2015. The 2016 lecture was delivered by Gregory Doran, artistic director of the RSC. The 2017 lecture was delivered by John O Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The 2018 lecture was delivered by Jeanette Winterson, writer and journalist. Richard Dimbleby Frederick Richard Dimbleby, CBE (25 May 1913 – 22 December 1965) was an English journalist and broadcaster, who became the BBC’s first war correspondent, and then its leading TV news commentator. As host of the long-running current affairs programme ""Panorama"", he pioneered"
"Nik Gowing Nik Keith Gowing (born 1951) is a British television journalist. Nik Gowing was educated at the Simon Langton Grammar School in Canterbury and Latymer Upper School in London, followed by the University of Bristol. A foreign affairs specialist and presenter at ITN from 1978, Gowing became Diplomatic Editor for the flagship ""Channel 4 News"" from 1989. During his time with the BBC, Gowing has since presented ""The World Today"" (1996–2000), ""Europe Direct"", ""HARDtalk"", ""Dateline London"", as well as ""Simpson's World"". At the time of the death of Princess Diana in 1997, Gowing anchored coverage for over seven hours,"
"for this action. In 1989 he moved from the evening to the breakfast news slot, where he remained for five years. During the 1991 Gulf War he was a volunteer presenter on the BBC Radio 4 News FM service. He was the first reporter to relay the news of the 1979 death of Lord Mountbatten, the Lockerbie disaster, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 1998, Witchell became a royal and diplomatic correspondent. In 2002, his obituary of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, recorded some time before her death but screened immediately after the"
"reported Princess Diana's funeral in August 1997. Other foreign assignments included Waley's coverage from Sarajevo in 1998 and reporting breaking news in Washington of the growing political storm engulfing US President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Waley also went on assignment to Nepal and the United States to profile the inspirational Tom Whittaker who, despite having an artificial leg, climbed to the top of Mount Everest. On 2 December 2002, Waley replaced the retiring Brian Henderson as the anchor of ""National Nine News"" in Sydney. Although the bulletin continued to retain its long-standing ratings lead over rivals ""10 News First"""
"and eastern Europe as well as such stories as the Soccer World Cup, the travels of Pope John Paul II, and Princess Diana's death in 1997. In 2015, he covered the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris for which he and the CNN team shared in the Royal Television Society Breaking News Award in 2016 Since 1998, Bittermann has been an assistant adjunct professor of communications at The American University of Paris. 2015 marked his 50th year in journalism. Bittermann's wife, Emmy-winning television producer Patricia Thompson, died in 2010. The couple's one daughter, Dr. Tess Bittermann, is a gastroenterologist at the"