Channel 4 Orders Diana: The Truth Behind the Interview

Blink Films has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce Diana: The Truth Behind the Interview.

A special one-off documentary, Diana: The Truth Behind the Interview tells the story of Princess of Wales’ famous 1995 BBC Panorama interview with Martin Bashir. The revelations in the interview stunned the world, painted the monarchy as cruel and oppressive and put its future in jeopardy. The new doc features insiders at the BBC and those who knew and worked closely with Diana, along with archive documents that help to piece together the full story behind the explosive interview.

Among those featured in Diana: The Truth Behind the Interview, distributed by Fremantle, are Diana’s former private secretary Patrick Jephson, biographer Andrew Morton and Sir Max Hastings.

Shaminder Nahal, commissioning editor of specialist factual for Channel 4, said: “This is one of the world’s most famous television interviews—viewers watched enthralled and shocked as Princess Diana revealed the stories of her broken marriage. But how did Martin Bashir and the BBC production team get her to do it? Years of deep digging into what really happened has led to Diana: The Truth Behind the Interview from Blink Films—and it’s a genuinely intriguing and fascinating watch, raising serious questions that have been unanswered for years.”

Dan Chambers, creative director of Blink Films, added: “Diana’s Panorama interview stunned the world and rocked the Monarchy with its revelations about her relationship with her husband and the Royal family. But it also raised questions and allegations about just how a junior journalist scooped his high-profile competitors which have largely unanswered for 25 years. We are now able to tell the full, extraordinary story.”