Diana/Bashir latest, plus the BA 149 & David Kelly Scandals | Ep.53 | Scandal Mongers Podcast

A packed episode featuring two of Britain’s most determined investigators.

Andy Webb returns to the podcast to tell Andrew and Phil of new developments in his long-running battle to uncover the truth behind Martin Bashir’s interview with Diana, Princess of Wales. Newly released BBC emails - some heavily redacted - reveal the scale of a 25 year cover up and shine new light on the case, including the disgraced reporter’s belief that his critics are motivated by professional jealousy or even racism. Andy also has some harsh words on the conduct of the BBC governors. If they had asked tougher questions at the time, could the course of Diana’s life have been changed for the better?

We then meet ex MP Norman Baker, one of the most dogged investigators to have ever worked in Britain’s House of Commons. He’s led a thirty year battle to uncover the truth about BA flight 149, which flew into Kuwait during Saddam Hussein’s invasion of that country in 1990, leaving its passengers to become hostages. Was the flight allowed to land despite the obvious dangers in order to insert a special forces team? Bakes believes that he can prove that it was.

Norman also discusses his investigative work on the hugely controversial death of government WMD scientist David Kelly, and his belief that the investigation into it was badly compromised, and his probes into royal finances and MP’s expenses.

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