Panorama is to investigate itself in a special programme looking into how Martin Bashir secured his historic interview with Princess Diana.
The BBC has commissioned one of its most experienced journalists, John Ware, to make the show – and he has been told to leave “no stone unturned”.
Bosses hope the programme would go some way to showing their inquiries have been thorough. The decision shows the levels of concern at the BBC over the allegations of forgery, deception and cover-up that have emerged in relation to the 1995 interview.
It also suggests there are doubts at the highest level that the official probe launched by BBC director-general Tim Davie and headed by retired Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson will go far enough.